Hello Roy here, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to the Roy Green Show ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. Puck drops, tip-offs, first pitches, kick-offs. When the game is on, you call the shots. Head to Betway.ca and bet your way.
Must be 19 plus, Ontario only. Play responsibly, concerned about your gambling, visit ConnectsOntario.ca. Roy Green isn't afraid to poke the bear. The bigger the bear, the bigger the poke.
This is the Roy Green Show on the chorus radio network. I'm a beast, give back, I'm a wag, I'm a wag, I'm a wag. I got this email here, a good day, please permit me to introduce myself. Does that sound like a song?
I'm Patrick Richmond, a business consultant and I represent a client interested in engaging your service as a manager of a large volume of fund to the tune of 20.5 million US for investment in business areas. You will guide us in your country and you will be offered 20%. If this proposal is acceptable to you, please get back to me so that we can work out remunerations for your participation in the transaction and let you know on how we hope to achieve this objective. We send your telephone number to enable me to call you soon as for more information on this matter.
You're a faithfully Patrick Richmond. So I emailed back. Dear Patrick, not interested in your proposal but I do have a used 55 inch flat screen television but doesn't work for sale. Send me your numbers so I can get back to you.
I'll let you know what happens. Problem is people actually respond to those things are taken in and if you ever receive anything like that, do not. You're not playing along. It's not in your best interest, I just have to get you home.
I spoke earlier this week with Janet. She lives in London, Ontario. We're going to use first name only and it's very disturbed by what I heard. Now, you know, we've talked a lot about chronic pain on this program and we've talked to people who are suffering with chronic pain.
We've talked to people who are in absolute distress, total distress over what's happened to them about how their medications have been withheld, withdrawn, dramatically reduced depending on the doctor they're dealing with and the doctors have told them. Quite openly at times we're not going to take a risk to lose our medical license by giving you what you need or you've been receiving even for me for years by way prescription. Your opioid medications, no, we're not going to give them to you anymore. When I talk to people that they're in medical colleges, they say, no, no, that's not the case.
Doctors have just been informed on what they need to do, which cut back as much as they reasonably can, particularly with a long prescribed patient who's been getting opioid medications. They're not to dramatically reduce their meds and it appears that somewhere in the middle, the truth is getting clobbered by both sides. So, I was talking to Janet and she joins us on the Roy Green Show on the chorus radio network. You kind of feel like you're just being batted around by both sides, Janet.
Well, there's no rest for the wicked, that's for sure. There seems to be no shelter, no help, no recourse. Tell us a bit about your health condition. What are you living with?
Well, I'm living with autoimmune disease, which they tell me the researchers do anyway, that this is the wave of the future. It's going to be a lot more of it. Things like any type of arthritis, I have rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, which are the two more well-known types. They're 125 different kinds, just for general information.
And I also most importantly suffer from a lupus SLB, which is an autoimmune disease. Okay, Janet, Janet, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we're having a real difficult time with your phone line. We're going to have to call you again, and I'm going to ask my call trainer to find out if you have a landline we could call you on, because this is not good. So, let's call Janet back, either get her back on her mobile, if she doesn't have a landline or we'll get her back or we'll talk to her on the landline to get her story.
What you're going to hear ultimately is that a doctor who took care of Janet for a long period of time suddenly fired her. And I've heard this from more than one patient, where they just say the doctor says, both in Canada and the United States, no, I can't look after you any longer, or I won't look after you any longer. And so you're going to have to find another doctor, because I will not prescribe you the opioid medications that you require. And so the patient is left struggling and trying to find a doctor who will prescribe.
So many of them cannot find a doctor. You've heard people on this program explain what they've gone through and talk about their shattered lives. And they get lost in this whole debate, this whole issue about the so-called opioid crisis, say so-called, because it's the chronic pain patients who are left out of the equation. They're the ones who are just sort of ignored.
And there are millions and millions and millions of people who live with hugely life altering chronic pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We have Janet back yet. Just call her back on her mobile phone and put her back on her there. Okay, I just need to speak with her.
And there are millions of people who find themselves with nowhere to turn, because no one's going to prescribe what they require and what they've been prescribing for them. There's never been a problem, but they, uh, they're not prescribed what they've been prescribed. Dr. Jeff Ellis was on this program with the other weekend.
And he's a member of the college of physicians and surgeons of Ontario. And he said to us on air that if, um, chronic pain patients for example, has been getting 90 milligrams or 200 milligrams a day, and they come back to 190, they figured that that's they've done their jobs. But the guidelines issued by the, um, by the consortium of doctors came up with them earlier this year, says 90 milligrams should be the maximum 50 would be better. And in British Columbia, 50 is the generally accepted maximum.
And that is not enough for people who are struggling and who have grown accustomed to when it's not called addiction, it's grown accustomed to a certain amount of medication, so they can get some quality of life. Janet, um, okay, that's much better. So tell us, please, what is it that you're living with? Just what are the illnesses that you have?
I'm suffering from a laundry list of what they call autoimmune disease, which is where your immune system takes the notion to attack your own body. This includes all the 125 kinds of arthritis, plus what I suffer from primarily is lupus, SLE, which is the type that will attack any part of the body at any time. There's other types of lupus usually associated with a particular organ that it attacks like lupus nipritis for a kidney and so on. But they're very dangerous diseases, but they're not widely known, and the treatment can vary very much from patient to patient.
The levels of pain, the amount of suffering you go through, and also whether you're in danger of losing your life. In my case, I went into a coma three years ago and almost died if I hadn't had a very informed husband, I probably would have because the even rheumatologists don't know how to treat this disease. And given all that, that's just the uncertainty of life, right? You get diseases that are hard to deal with.
But my pain levels are equal if not greater than a late-stage cancer patient, which is something everyone can kind of relate to. But it's not recognized as a disease that's imminently threatening, even though it's almost killed me about 10 times in my life. So I'm dealing with both a disease that's hard to treat and pain levels that are suspect to the medical profession. But to you, they're extremely real.
Oh, yeah. And you've been treated for these pain levels, and you've been prescribed opioid medication over a period of years. 25 years. So hold on, we're going to come back to you, and we'll find out what's happened to Janet most recently.
When her doctor sent her somewhere, we'll find out where, and then what happened? And how it happened to the police? I wound up at Janet's door. Remember, this is somebody living with massive pain 24-7.
They talk about an opioid crisis. Why the hell do we keep forgetting about the other patients? And why don't more people in my business learn to understand that there is a crisis. When the crisis is with millions of people who are living with chronic pain, go and talk, and suggest to some reporters, go and talk to some doctors and pain med doctors, and actually they've been hearing doctors speaking with each other about more patients taking their own lives.
I'll tell you right now, the answer is going to be yes. Just investigate. We'll come back and talk to Janet after this. Don't let his bark fool you.
Roy has a softer side too. This is the Roy Green Show on the Chorus Radio Network. Janet might air because we were delayed with the phones a little earlier. We were just desperately short of time.
So what we're going to do is we'll talk another time as well, but just tell us very briefly in about 45 seconds. How did it happen that you ended with police at your door? I requested my medical records from my previous family doctor who, you know, terminated our relationship about a year ago. And all I wanted was my medical records and the next thing I knew, and I sent it by email, it wasn't a personal request.
Next thing I knew, please, read the door, nice young police woman. And she said, you're going to have to quit trying to contact him or I'll have to charge you with criminal harassment. And I said, but I wasn't threatening him. I was asking for my records.
And she said, yes, but it's how he perceives what you're doing, not what you're actually doing. So here you are, the patient with a chronic pain issue. You're fired by your doctor. You want your records.
And the doctor calls police and says you're harassing him. We're going to, we're going to get you one with a panel of patients in the very near future. Okay. But thank you for sharing this with us.
And I'm sorry we had the phone issue earlier. Thanks, Roy. Take care, Janet. We'll come right back.