
What about us minorities who need opiates for depression so people like me can piece my life together again and be active and love life,hobbies etc again? dont get me wrong I'm not totally complaining, this is cool that we "got our foot in the door" so to speak by legalizing weed. Obama did some cool stuff so far which I had a feeling he would do, thats why I voted for him.
I really hope that Marijuana legalization becomes standard in all 50 states of the US. I also hope Obama quickly also realizes how horrible and undertreated pain patients are in the US and how Opiates are still so frowned upon thanks to rush limbaugh ruining it for all legit opiate patients in need by abusing Oxycontin and causing Purdue Pharma all the heartache and severe financial hell its gone through.
I have been through hell and back from so many surgeries both major and minor to moderate. One time I had to have intestinal surgery, long story short the local hospital I now hate, treated me like a worthless junky piece of meat by just plopping me down on the recovery room bed. I laid there shaking, barely able to speak, the surgeon ordered this fat bitch nurse to give me a benzo to stop me from shaking. This ignorant bitch said "he can't have that he's on suboxone". Doc said, well we have to do something he cant just shake like that. Before I could even get the surgeon's attention to tell him I took 5 10mg valiums off and on in the recent past and it only calmed me and made me feel better this dumb nurse is just discriminating against me. He did nothing, I mean hell I thought what the surgeon orders the nurses to do, they must do it because all they are, are just nurses and docs and surgeons are the boss.
I will NEVER have surgery at that piece of crap hospital again.
But I am a legitimate pain patient to this day, my colon specialist who I have to see every 6 months, told me that due to scar tissue on my intestines I will for the rest of my life most likely have to deal with intestinal pain. So about a month ago I found out about a great pain clinic close to me that a nice pharmacist recommended me to. However I got bronchitis and things have been hectic as hell the 3 weeks that I had to wait to see the doctor at the pain clinic. In the meantime I screwed up and didn't get around to getting my recent med records together. So at the beginning of this month(Dec) I saw him and he seemed real nice, I could have had some good opies prescribed to me that late noon, sadly he said he couldn't do anything because my med records aren't in yet.
1st thing this Monday I quickly called all the needed places to fax my records to them, however the "dump" as I call it, methadone clinic was not too happy to see that I wanted to leave them and go to the pain clinic because they just want my money. Also my counselor there who I dont like said "I'm sorry but I dont want to hear that you od'ed etc or died because you know that you tend to frequently take more of your medication than your supposed to in order to get high and I'm going to have to tell the pain clinic this. I said oh gee I hope they are not going to reject me because of what you tell them. Also I forgot to tell you(counselor) that I just saw my family doc a few days ago and he did a ekg in his office and wrote up an echo test for me and I told him to fax it all to the methadone clinic. I also told the counselor that my doctor said that the methadone is causing my heart issues, that's the other reason I want to go there.
My counselor said "well you know you can't be here and there at the same time, are you just trying to get more opiates? I said no, I'm sorry I miscomunicated to you, what I really mean is, I want to quit coming here and only go to the pain clinic because I do have intestinal pain almost every day, so I do have a legitimate reason to go there. Oh ok I'm sorry she said I understand now, but you need to sign a release of info form so that I can talk to the pain clinic, which I reluctantly signed.
But good news is my psych doctor who scribes my valium and xannies also had to fax recent records to the pain clinic too and when I talked to him, he was very understanding and was very supportive to my needs and didn't say anything about telling them about my misuse of my meds etc. So wish me luck everyone. I really hope that since methadone is causing me heart issues that I will luckily get in the pain clinic and finally off deathadone(methadone) so I can piece my life back together again and be pain free and also enjoy life again since opiates wipe away my depression and that tired ambitionless feeling I have almost everyday.
I sure hope Opiates are next to be legalized like weed, because the poppy plant is just another plant just like the cannabis plant.