About a year ago I was diagnosed with RA. While I've been working with a doctor to manage it and slow down the progression I'm still worried about how my condition may affect me in the future. I have many passions that joint pain affects and I'm afraid it will get so bad that I won't be able to do the things I love doing. Especially getting a diagnosis so early in life. Am I overreacting? I have an anxiety disorder and I feel like I might be over thinking things...

I am collecting information in an attempt to contact those that are making our laws about opioid addiction. I have already contacted some law makers. When the new proposals are announce, I want to be very ready to get active in trying to be sure that those of us in chronic pain are not ignored in the process. Please be very specific if you feel that you have already been affected by new state laws or the national CDC Guidelines for pain managers and their use of opioid. Thanking you all in… read more

What was your experiences with this medication as this is what I’ll be put on after slowly weaning off of Cymbalta

Is anyone staying abreast of this whole #opioidscrisis #opioidepidemic #dea #Kolondny going on?
And, are you concerned about losing your medications or have you already lost them?

Autoimmune diseases cause depressive for no reason other than they simply do. But I also have another mood disorder, which is bipolar I. When I fall into depression, my fatigue is awful and I feel like my pain from MCTD, SLE, & fibro is amplied and exacerbated.

There doesn't seem to be a thing we can do about it,I've been cut down on the strength of my pain meds so much I'm never out of pain and have no quality of life,my only option is is to cut both my legs off just to get out of pain,it' crazy, I've never failed a drug test, I've always had my pill count and they still keep cutting me down., I see why the suicide rate for seniors is going up,what else are we supposed to do,they want us to die off anyway.

I am a women from 47 years of age and i had a endometriisis surgery because of a frozen pelvic.

After a mounth i couldn t sit or bicycle anymore because of the pain seisures started behind my tailbone.

i am diagnosed with pudendal neuralgy and chronic pain syndrome. Has anybody also this diagnose ?

My doctor quoted some CDC report that was intended as a guideline for general practitioners that said no chronic pain patient should be prescribed more then 90mmg of morphine equalivent for chronic pain patients irregardless of pain levels or time on opioids. The DEA jumped all over this reccomdation and is using it to force pain doctors to drasticly cut medications, leaving millions of us in dire pain without help or hope.