Reply #59: It is insane

[dotymed]

if a Dr. prescribes pain meds, he is targeted. I have many documented progressive, painful conditions. I do not mind the drug screens to make sure that you are not abusing or selling your meds. I was recently denied my SS disability. The SS (fitting moniker), "Dr.", whose only patients are SS evaluations (he doesn't even have a receptionist or speak coherent English) wrote on my denial, that I had a "narcotics dependency." My body is more "dependent" on the heart meds. If I go for a couple of days without my heart meds., I am so nervous I can not function. If I go without (and I do because I do not want my pain meds increased) my "narcotics", I have slight flu-like symptoms and of course, severe pain. I talked to my mother in TN., she said that they were really "cracking down" on pain meds in her county. She is 75 with 24 metal pins holding her leg together. My brother lives with her. He has been in desperate need of surgery on his shoulder after a 2 story fall. He has no insurance. No one will repair his shoulder. The Dr. at the "free clinic" said "you need surgery." My Mom occasionally gives my brother some of her pain meds because the "free clinic" will not prescribe narcotics. They are both heart patients too. She gets so worried that she will get arrested for trying to help my brother. He hasn't been able to lift his right arm for 3 years! America?