Veterans in Pain

In 1998 I injured my back and feet in the Marine Corp. I was not able to get treatment by the VA until 2003. I was $20,000 in credit card debt from doctor bills and chiropractor bills. In 2005 I made 23% of what I made in 2003 and that was after a seven percent raise. Chronic pain in one of the worst things veterans have to go through. The VA well give out pain killers like skittles in the beginning and when your tolerance goes up they cut your dosage in half. I had one doctor that made me take morphine, methadone, and fetynal (three times stronger than morphine) because He thought taking six percocet a day was to addictive even though they started me on 8 day three years prior. Dumb high school kids don't realize that percocet is the name brand for oxycodone/tylenol. They'll eat two or three of them with some beers and then the next time eat two three oxycodone 80mg or oxycotin 80mg (timed release oxycodone). They don't know that oxycotin is timed release, oxydonone isn't and that one 80mg is like taking sixteen percocets without tylenol. When they eat two or three oxy 80mg it's like eating 32-48 percocets. I've been taking oxycotin for over seven years I couldn't eat that without going to the hospital. If you want to get high I would recommend pot. It's safer, less addictive, cheaper, and it's a much better high. People in pain won't have to be under treated. If your willing to have a six inch hot metal rod stuck in your back to burn nerves in your spine then take pain medication. My pain medication from the pharmacy cost $1200 a month and that's for 20mg pills. They go up to 160mg four to six times a day. You would be looking at $6000 a month. If you buy them off the street it's probably more since drug dealers were willing to pay those prices when I work at a grocery store with a pharmacy. Veterans and people with real pain are suffering because of ass holes.