I’m so beat up it takes me at least 10 paces to straighten up from sitting but still no medications.
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I shower in the mornings but sometimes I get the urge to take a bath, usually at night. It’s getting harder and harder to get in and out of that tub.
I’ll be 72 on the 29th. of this month - Lord willing.
Try to walk a mile or two every day and do some stretching exercises. Also, cut sugar out of your diet because of its strong pro-inflammatory effect. I hope you see a century in good health.
I’ll be 68 in August, and I sit on a stool in the tub. If I got fully into it I’d not get out. Total spine degeneration. Hands hurt so bad even brushing teeth is a hr of pain.
Marijuana: safer than opioids?
http://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/local/2017/06/09/marijuana-safer-than-opioids/381344001/
June 15th is the dead line to make your comments. On this FAKE CRISIS.
Dear Staff, Presidential Commission on Combating Drug
Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. (sample letter modify to suit your conditions)
I am a chronic pain patient diagnosed with [———————————— names of disorders]. I have been managed on opioid medications for __ years, with major improvement to my function and quality of life. I have some pain every day. But without opioids I would be totally disabled and the pain would be unbearable. Nothing else has worked for me and my doctor has tried almost everything.
I live in daily fear that my doctor will be forced out of pain management practice by the arbitrary and ill-founded policies of our government and the CDC, enforced by the bogus drug war witch hunt conducted by the DEA. Patients like me are committing suicide in increasing numbers because of denial of effective medical care.
DO NOT MAKE ME ONE OF THEM!
If the US government is to deal with the opioid epidemic, the first thing you must realize is that managed prescriptions to chronic pain patients didn’t cause the problem. And torturing us by denial of care will only make the mess worse when we must go into the street to get pain relief.
I am not an addict, even if I must depend on opioids just to live with my pain. The most reliable predictors for addiction are status as an adolescent (an age when few people are treated for pain), a history of family trauma, or a period of prolonged unemployment. These are social problems, not medical ones.
Please take action to require withdrawal of the March 2016 CDC guidelines for prescription of opioids. The guidelines are biased, scientifically invalid, and actively dangerous to patients and as public policy.
Sincerely,