I was injured and have sciatic nerve damage to compare the pain I feel each and every day to a aching tooth. I have been a pain management patent since 2002. I take over 150 hydrocodone 10/350 that is three times the dose you get when you have a surgery a month. After all these years it is no longer working for my pain my options are limited I can not take more powerful pain pills like morphine patches but am afraid with all the deaths related to pain medications to take any thing like that.
My other options are electrodes placed in my back with open wires I saw alot of lawsuits on that object of further nerve damage then what I already have.
these medications are drugs no doubt about that opium I believe I am a law abiding citizen never arrested or charge with any crimes I am a mother of a teen daughter and have told her drugs are for doctors not teens.
My pain blocks cost medicare over 65,000 a year with my pain medications I want to know why the bill HB 277 has stalled in the house the US federal government has authorized the use of medical marijuana to ease suffers such as myself with no danger to overdose why is this bill never assigned to comity the people have voted that medical marijuana is acceptable when do I as a patent have the right to chose marijuana over opium when no deaths have ever been recorded in the history of the drugs use
Why do I have to take opium fear death with the death rate being the third leading cause of death in the USA I get drug tested each time I get my medications sent to a lab for another staggering cost of 345.00 to medicare to get my pain medications and blocks why do I have to be tested for drugs to get drugs this makes no since
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