Government OVER regulation, are they treating us like babies?

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This is going to be a bit long, and if you are one of the MyLotters who wants to only read a one or two line discussion, this isn't for you. Look somewhere else for the "quick" money reads that you don't have to take the time to read or the ones that challenge you to THINK for a change. As all of my MyLot friends have noticed I haven't been on the Lot for a long time. When I do come on it's to answer maybe one post. There is a big reason why, and I will preface it all with the statement that I am not looking for sympathy (It's in the dictionary between $hit and $yphillis). My pain levels have suddenly gone from a 5 to a 30 on the doctor's ten point scale of pain. I woke up the night before last SCREAMING from the pain. I was able to handle the pain in my left leg from the knee replacement, but both of my shoulders and my right leg are involved now. Even brushing my hair is a chore that I don't look forward to. It isn't just my pain I am starting this discussion about...it's everyone elses pain along with my pain. In the patients bill of rights that you can get from any hospital, it states that we,as paitents, have the right to live with our pain under control. Don't believe that bull $hit. The government has stepped in and stripped us of our rights for pain regulation. Each month we are alloted a prescribed amount of pain relievers to take care of our pain. We are informed that we can take ONE friggin pill every six hours. That gives us 4 pills a day times the number of days in a month. Don't believe that if it is a short month you have extra pills to get you through...you don't. So in a 30 day month you get exactally 120 pain killers. If you have more pain than what the pills are prescribed for you're out of luck. If you might reach the 4th hour after taking a pain pill you might think that you can go ahead and take another, but the regulations are there where if you take another pill, at the end of the month you'll be short. This is garbage!!! We are being regulated to death. I am beginning to believe that our law makers are looking at their constituants as idiots!!! Read your prescription bottles. Are you taking pills? My bottles always state "Take one pill by mouth". How the hell am I going to take it? Shove it up my fanny? When did we start becoming idiots? Yes, I have read about the people who cant figure out how to do things, they mix up the ambisol with the anusol...they will insert their medications up their...nose and other openings, they have an overpowering urge to use the blow dryer in the shower. But what about the rest of the "thinking" population? What do we do to control our pain and our lives? How many of you are chronic pain suffers? Do you get through the month on your prescriptions? I know that tylenol and other tylenol type products don't cut the pain...I had a friend buy me a bit of pot, which since I can't smoke it I use it in my tea, and it doesn't really help the pain. After being so frantic about the overabundance of pain, I realized that all of us chronic pain are being held hostage by the government. We are being penalized because of people who don't watch over their medications and their kids, who want to get high because their lives are boring and they don't have the gumption to go out and find their own "high" from living a drug free life. I remember teaching my daughter NOT to get into things that don't belong to her. I taught her to respect people's privacy and that getting high wasn't the answer to boredom or problems. Having children is a teaching experience for each of us. With that said, changes really need to be made to the system. I'm sitting here typing, terrified to move because of the horrible pain. I know there are millions of other chronic pain suffers out there that are going through the same thing. Isn't it about time we banded together as one HUGE voice to let the lawmakers and doctors know that we aren't going to live in pain and it's about time that they did something about the laws to account for the chronic pain sufferers? We treat our companion animals better than we get treated. If our furry friends are in excruciating pain, we rush them to the vet and get treatment for them. We go to the doctor for the same reason and we get a minimal amount of pain medications and are told to come back in a month...there truely is something totally wrong here!~!