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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in the ER last summer because I had an awful virus that made me vomit every ten minutes and I couldn't keep water down for 24 hours.  The minute I disclosed that I take extended-release morphine prescribed by a pain specialist during intake they stopped listening to me, and took 2 hours before they gave me IV fluids and anti-nausea medicine.  I never asked for painkillers and all I needed was fluids and an anti-emetic but the minute I disclosed that I'm a chronic pain patient (I have a degenerative joint disease) they treated me as subhuman.  A friend came with me and was in the waiting room repeatedly asking to come sit with me but was lied to multiple times to keep her from advocating for me.  I spent two hours vomiting, shaking, and crying, and the only time a nurse came to check on me was when I was curled in a fetal position with an awful migraine from severe dehydration and she told me I needed to stop disturbing the other patients with my whimpering.  I will never trust an ER tech/nurse/doctor again.[/quote]

I am also a chronic pain patient (severe arthritis in my cervical spine) and am on a very low dose of Vicodin to help manage it. 1 or 2 5 mg tablets per day, max. Some days I take none. I've avoided going to the ER a few times in recent years when I really should have gone (cut my hand and should have had stitches; severe food poisoning) because I didn't want to go through the humiliation of disclosing that I am a chronic pain patient. I knew I would be labeled a drug seeker and treated as a second-class human.

There is a huge opioid problem in this country; I hope the pendulum eventually swings back to center, so that people in actual pain can have the treatment they need without stigma; and people who are abusing meds will have a much harder time accessing them. [/quote]

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