Cant Find A Doctor Who Will Prescribe Pain Medication In Montana (Top voted first)

I've moved here from California and was on methadone for pain, I went to advanced pain in Missoula and Montana spine and pain and they were against any drugs. Does anyone know a methadone Dr willing to help a 5X back surgery patient who is in chronic pain!

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Can you please tell me about the Missoula clinic? Is it worth 125 mile drive from Kalispell or is it as bad as the Pain clinic in Kalispell? Before going to the Kalispell pain clinic, please read my other post on here the you'll know what yer up against.
I have been around 8 months almost totally non functional. When they pulled my breakthrough's that was about the end of me and I have now put on 35 pounds since I can hardly do anything anymore. There is a methadone clinic now in Kalispell, but it's like the rest. If you live far out of town, yer screwed. I think it takes 6 months of perfect behavior to get takeouts. You can call them and see. I think it really sucks to be mixing pain patients with street junkies. That happened to me in CO and I'm so nice and trusting that I got ripped off trying to help ppl I had gotten to know there... 3 times. My jewelry, my clothes, cd's...just a few of the things that were stolen from me. It's very unfair, dangerous and cruel!!!just a little more to my story. Anyway, I'm kind of the same boat, different details than you. I went to my primary care Dr and asked them to please take over my scrip's and was told that they only do that for ppl who've been in that clinic, Big Sky, for many years. I have been going to Big Sky for 20 years, but have a new doctor for primary care since my other Dr went to the pain clinic and then retired...God help me! That's when the pain clinic started having their sadistic way with me. The only other clinic for chronic pain is Grizzly. $400 to get in the door and they don't take medicaid. They also are getting like the Wellness Center and detoxing patients I heard from a pharmacist.
Good luck. I will post anything else I can find out soon.

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Moving to Montana from California and was wondering where I could go to get my methadone for chronic pain? I am not a junkie and take them like the dosage says

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can u please help me find a VA doctor that will give my husband Methadone he is so much pain he had is Doc for for several years giving him 120mg until he starting seeing Dr. Shidmit in Kalispell VA Clinic it does have to be a VA Doctor any doctor in idaho, WA or Montana. Thank you also what is the address of the methadone clinic and phone number.

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I live in Libby MT do u have the name of the clinic for methadone and Phone number thank you so much. Iam looking for a doc for my husband.

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My mother is in a lot of pain and her doctor barely gives her enough medication to get by and she is in pain constantly. What kind of life is that when your doctor thinks addiction is worse than pain? She is old and would rather live pain free. What doctors prescribe pain meds in Great Falls, Montana?

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Hello, Holly! How are you doing? I am sorry about the problem that you're having.

Most doctors are going to balk, if you walk in asking for a medication that is as addictive as Methadone. This is a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation.

What you really need to do is set up an appointment with a new doctor, make sure they get a full copy of your most current medical records and then discuss your treatment options from there, without asking for a specific medication. When they can see what has and hasn't worked for you in the past as documented by fellow physicians, they will be more prone to prescribe accordingly.

Can anyone recommend a good doctor in that area?

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this may be a bit late but I feel it is worth it to go thru the local methadone clinic..that's what it's there for. I myself go there for suboxone. my pain issues are taken care of by supportive therapy and so far so good. the pain pill era is for the most part over. montana has been hit harder than a lot of states in not only pain pill abuse but every other street drug as well. as one cascade county sheriff deputy back in the day put it he has never been to kalispell or missoula yet he knows which doctors are writing narcotics over there.

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