my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”
i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess what…it is.
the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:
稽首天中天，
毫光照大千，
八風吹不動，
端坐紫金蓮
(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)
on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.
all you young anime fans with your attack on titans and your maid dragons will never know the sheer hell of the time The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya went in to a time loop story arc and made the same episode 8 times and broadcast that same episode 8 weeks in a row
they didn’t just air the same episode eight times
they made the same episode 8 times in slightly different ways
different camera angles, different shots, different outfits
eight times
eight weeks
the same episode
this is a bit of anime history that i’ve never heard before but sounds horrendous.
Wow. You clearly have never had to take opioids and you’ve been buying the government’s bullshit on opioids as well. You’re lucky you’ve never had to take them long term but you clearly do not understand the process of getting opioids now. Doctors will not just write scripts for higher doses. They did like back in the 1990s and early 2000s when opioids became prescribed more but now most doctors avoid prescribing them because they risk their license if they’re suspected of over prescribing. Doctors go through an extensive system to prescribe them now and it’s not an easy process for them or the patient. It used to be but things have changed.
Currently doctors are lowering chronic pain patients pain medications because of misconceptions like yours rather than raising them as you’ve stated. They’re lowering doses that people have been on safely for years. This puts chronic pain patients in agony and bed bound. You want to talk about opioid deaths which are absolutely awful and we need better resources to help addicts. What about the chronic pain patients who are dying because their medications are taken away even though they use them responsibly. Without the meds and in agony they often end up killing themselves. Or forced to go buy opioids on the street and end up dying. They are punished for other people’s actions and end up dying. How is that okay? How is that justified in your mind?
Without pain meds, I would be bed bound and unable to work. But taking them responsibly like I have for the last 7 years, I can manage some quality of life. My doctors have deemed me safe to take these medications at the dosages they prescribed. What gives the government and pharmacy the right to decide differently without a medical degree or any understanding of me as a patient?
They aren’t adding “extra steps” to get prescriptions, they are intentionally lowering or withholding medications from people who need them. It’s not about waiting a little longer for them for chronic pain patients, it’s about fucking surviving. I’m treated as a criminal and a drug addict simply for taking the medication my doctor prescribed because people like you have a false understanding of prescribed opioid pain medication.
I hope you never have to experience the humiliation of being treated like scum simply for the medication you take. I hope you never have to lay in bed in agony crying and unable to sleep because the pharmacy is withholding your medication. I hope you never have to feel the fear of having to quit your job and live in poverty because you’re in too much pain to work. I hope maybe you’ll listen to what I said and rethink your attitude on chronic pain patients. This isn’t about me. It’s about the thousands of chronic pain patients being punished for other’s behavior.
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