hello, i am a chronic pain sufferer. i have chronic rheumatoid arthritis. my doctor was turned in to the state medical board for writing too many prescriptions for pain medicine. i testified in front of the state medical board on behalf of my doctor. he was able to keep his license and his practice, but is unable to prescribe medication for pain relief, for three years. as a patient this is a tragedy. i don’t think that these people understand what chronic pain really is. this a real inconvenience for me. it also makes me fell like these people do not care about me. this makes me feel like i don’t matter as a human being. there has to be something that we as patients can do to make them understand. what if it were they who were in this terrible pain? maybe they would understand then. but i wouldn’t wish this pain on anyone. i have felt so bad that i have thought of suicide before. i would never do that, but i have thought about it. without pain medicine i just may have committed suicide. i would pray for death many nights. sometimes the pain medicine i had was not good enough, so i would pray for death. now that’s very sad. please let me know what i can do to help other people. thank you chronic pain sufferer.