Doctors Willing To Prescribe Heavy Pain Medication In Colorado (Page 164)

I have a serious problem. My dr. had two patients start dr. shopping and has decided it is too big of a pain in his butt to continue prescribing, even though I have gotten MRIs and Xrays to prove my problems. I have over a half a dozen herniated discs in my low back, along with degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, scoliosis and arthritis in my facet joints. I am currently on5 30mg oxycodone a day for breakthrough and 60mg of methadone for my long lasting meds. I REALLY need a doctor in the Denver, CO area who will not judge me because of my age, thinking I'm just some drug seeker as I TRULY need my meds to function. I am even being placed on disability until I can get my back healed because if something doesn't change I will be in big time pain for the rest of my life. If ANYONE knows of a good doctor that prescribes strong meds willingly in the Denver area please let me know. I am in desperate need of help as I am going to be SCREWED if I cannot find a good doctor. SOMEONE please help me with a doctor!!!!!

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U are loved girlfriend!!! U have lots of bff's!!!

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Wendy you are so loved, never forget that and it's not conditional. You had stuff to take care of...no sorries!

Janey I will send a request and then we'll do the phone here in the next couple weeks . I so appreciate it!

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Wendy, one of our regular long timers had gotten us together to work on changing things here in Colorado. Thus, when she went missing, and we recently lost 2 longtime members, we were worried for the worst. We have been trying to set up a meeting to get our ducks in a row for Colorado for some time now....but as you well know, with chronic pain/illness that's like herding cats lol. However, Wendy is back, I'm much better and more vocal (I had a rough July 2014-April 2015), and we are putting our good juju towards Janey for her biopsy because she really is our human card catalog and even if she was factless we just love her too much to lose her. I'm going to ask her to change her handle to Dewey D! And as we move along hopefully we can keep getting people to their next milestone and the one after that and so on...

At any rate, I love that we can work on things at the state level, and it gives us a national outlet. Colorado is "special". Everything from the legal marijuana, to pet owners being identified legally as animal guardians...yes, guardian, not owner (I rather love it lol). Plus we are always # 1 or 2 for the healthiest state and chronic pain just doesn't scream back to back Zumba classes tonight. So it can be hard to find that support. While your friends or family, or even employers (they sponsor every single charity) are at some biking classic followed by a party in the mountains having a blast... us CPP (Chronic Pain Peeps) are home and fussing with Netflix because they don't have the newest Blacklist yet, ignoring laundry and hoping that tonight you'll get just a few hours of quality sleep...Or is that just me guys? Guys? *crickets*

I jest, and digress...this is yet another outlet that we need, especially in a state like this...where you can be told, don't take a vicodin, drink this orange bitters tea with monkey urine from Easter Island at 15:00 on Tuesday the 21st and then go for a fun run no less than 12 miles, 15 if you're serious. When you get home, eat kale and and pretend you like it and by the end of the week you will be cured. Okay...maybe not that bad, but close. Kale tastes like fake lettuce and hair. My point...a resource to add to what may be a very short list for some is brilliant! Now it's up to you and me to get these guys in there...

As for the troubles people are having with the new laws...I'll follow this up with a question post because for me my problem lies in the fact that doctors keep retiring, quitting, or dying on me...I swear it's not my fault. I know that here medicade does crummy stuff like trying to make patients go on suboxone if they want their claims paid. Otherwise the patient has to pay out of pocket. I understand the business side, but we are not a business model...we are humans that need help, compassion, empathy...proper treatment, not apathetic arithmetic. We've had a couple of the bigger clinics post really bad rules, using suspect pharmacists and basically taking it out on the patient because they got reviewed by the powers that be. Unfair? Yes, life is unfair. Improvable? Absolutely!

I hope your crones like my RA gets some better news on the autoimmune disease world of research. Your strength to fight with everything you've got from 10 years old is amazing! I'm 6 years in and was a basket-case for the first 4, now I'm just happily peculiar, no? The best part of it is that your chronic pain trigger matters, yet it will not separate us because we are kindred in the fight to stop our pain, chronic pain for others and how this society deals with something so intangibly destructive.

I hope we'll see you on the thread!!!

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Hey gang! I know, lots of posts, but at least I'm honest VERY CHATTY...lol

I was hoping we could answer some of njshore's questions...my situation is wacky with the retirements and such and being on a non opioid. No names of the doctor or the clinic per se, but just details of what happened that has knocked over your apple cart of quality of life??

Can someone give us a overview of the mess at the clinic on the west side of town? Where they were making people go to that pharmacy with that pharmacist that was TROUBLE? Or how Kaiser just one day said no more pain patients?

Rainbow, did you find out anything new about the suboxone rule for medicade? Can it be gotten around so you don't have to pay out of pocket or suffer? I know you have issues with some meds and not others and it seems like they just ignore that. Do we ignore someone allergic to peanuts? Same dang difference...

How about anyone have a doctor that rather than weened you off, or documented properly why you're on the dose you are, just cut you down or off?

The more we can talk about these issues the better we'll get at finding ways to improve the system. Janey said it well a few weeks back when she said we MUST be careful and vigilant about giving information because the wrong doctor or the one doctor shopper we missed could make this current situation even worse. Plus, once we know what happened, we can brainstorm and talk about ways to do it better so that moving forward the "better" plan can be used as opposed to this Spanish Inquisition environment it feels like we're being faced to deal with through NO fault of our own. I also think this sharing of info can really catapult our local efforts as well as help the national ones. Not to mention to offer support to each of us that needs it...one act of kindness can save a life. Yours or theirs...imo.

So thoughts or stories without names but some detail about these new laws and guidelines that have jacked up things for so many of us???

Lots of love and thoughts to everyone, and thank you in advance for this.

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I'm out of the loop as for the clinic and the Kaiser issue... Background info?

I had an si joint fusion about 7 weeks ago... Was on crutches for a month... Started pt this past Thursday. I cannot believe how out of shape I am and how I feel like I've been steamrollered every morning when I get out of bed!! I haven't been able to cut back on meds yet... Without current dose, i have about 15 mins of walking/standing/whatever and then I have to go get flat in bed on my heating pad. The p therapist said everything is tight and wonky and it will just take TIME... Ugh.

Hope everyone is doing okay this weekend. Prayers and hugs!

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Mtn Girl when it's all said and done I hope your surgery was a success and your pain level goes down bigtime.
Wendy glad you're ok, just give a hollar if you need something, ya know if literally just down the road from you lol
Janie fingers crossed everything comes back a-ok with that biopsy.

Susie--You are awesome! You have been my lifeline, my coach and my guidance counselor. While you all are dealing with things publicly Susie has been lifting me up and keeping me out of the hole for a good portion of this year and I don't know where I would be without her advice and her calm voice of reason. I send so much love and gratitude to you and I wanted everyone else to know how phenomenal a person you are.

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Rainbow medicade will pay for suboxon CPR takes it for just that but its a drug to ween you off natc for good .Is that what you want?

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No I dont want to do the suboxone I was just asking as to why ppl with medicaid are being told thats the only way we as pain patients can get help. This 2 me is not right its not fair it makes me feel like I dnt matter my pain is not real and I'm not a real person is all and sorry I have nt been on been in hospital almost 2 weeks with ammiona at home but still In bed but I'm glad u are here wendy

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Very chatty no I have not I hope since I'm on medicaid I dnt have 2 be put on it. I been in hospital with ammiona at hme in bed. I was just asking why medicaid will only pay 4 suboxone it makes me feel like my pain is nt real and I'm nt a real person it all

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Rain i have to pay for my doctor or i wont get help.What happened to the S'i thought u were getting meds from them

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Im still there but anella got after another patient cuz she was tryin 2 get anella 2 give her friend more pain meds and anella wnt so then the lady went 2 Mr smith and has cuz a huge problem 4 all who get meds they cut us dwn from it I was just asking of why suboxone was the only meds 4 medicaid

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Its not they only give it out if they feel your abusing your meds .Once on its hard to get back narcotics

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who told you medicade will only pay for suboxon?

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Make me understand one of my meds cost 10,000 a month .Is this a new law medicade coming yp with ?

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Information Books! Something I have been doing for years is a medical info book. I get the size of notebook I like to use, typically the composition books but small. I make one for me, one for my Dad and one for just in case. It includes my info, date of birth, phone numbers, drivers license number, insurance both current and former, weight, height, diseases, surgeries, hospitalizations, current meds, failed meds, current doctors, former doctors, hospitalizations, blood transfusions...my medical history. It also has a section of people I want contacted if something should happen to me. I have a lot of people in my internet life that my parents don't know and they matter to me. Some friends for over 20 years. It's a lot to keep so I only go back so far unless they need to know like my weight loss surgery was 10+ years ago, so I mention it, but not my hospital say in 97 where they couldn't figure out what was wrong and I just remained there for one night. I update anytime there is a major change or at least once a year if nothing happened. It's saved us a dozen times if once. It's also allowed me to find someone if they are MIA...I just never got a chance to get everyone's info here. So maybe something to think about if you couldn't speak for yourself...

Wendy, I'm sorry to hear you got hit with the billion dollar drug bs. A lot of my infusions are thousands of dollars per vial... WHY?! I realize it's expensive to research, and make drugs, run trials, blah blah blah, but if India can produce the same drug, get the same result in treatment why can't we? Are we dumber? Are we unable? No, it's all about money which should be illegal. If I can help with insurance stuff let me know, hon. xoxox

I'm sorry about getting stories confused guys, that's why I wanted to ask you all to share a bit. I only retain full information if it's on paper...no really. I read a lot on the computer, but I print out and read a lot more. Something about the computer monitor says to my brain this is only half important, but anything I read on paper I keep...and boy is it annoying. Wanna talk about septic tank systems? lol me either!!

I don't know what's up with the S's in Aurora. I went to my appointment that Dr. R fully knew about and he never showed. He finally called 40ish minutes late and said he was 20-40 minutes out. I didn't really need anything, it was just a check up, so I opted to see him next month. He fully knew about the appointment though. I guess I wouldn't have minded so much if it were for the hospice but the front desk person said he was coming from home. It takes a lot of drugs and a few hours to get me ready to go to the doctor and then I come home and crash so I'm pretty firm on it not happening again...after all doctors charge us for missed appointments. There needs to be some fair mutual benefit adjustments in the world of health care.

Perhaps we can aim for the last week in June for a meet up? Is that too soon or too late?

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I've been reading this page for over a year now but have never commented. I stumbled on it when I was researching a pain management doctor in the Denver area, I've been on pain management for a long time, 18 years or so and ive never really thought about a sort group, until now, I think it would be good for me and maybe even good for someone else, ya never know. Any way, I'd love to be able to start sharing I guess. Nobody understands what I go through on a daily basis, but y'all do and it would be nice to be able to talk to people that don't judge you by your medical history.

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Wendy... WHAT???? That is crazy... What is it???

Mellie... Welcome!! We are all in need of support in some way... I can't tell you how nice it is to come here and mention what a rotten time I've had today... Or just say hi and send some hugs. It's great because you share your background once and everyone pretty much remembers it and helps you any way that they can. It's so nice to "talk" with people that understand your struggles I every way!

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Rainbow... Pneumonia?? Oh my gosh! I'm hoping you are feeling better. Sending you hugs!

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My post is still in review.

Rainbow I'm so sorry to hear about the pneumonia. Is there anything I can help you with?

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Hi Mellie!

I'm glad you've spoken up, I only wish you had sooner! This is an amazing group and you are more than welcome to post vents, ask questions, chitchat, you know...support and be supported!

So what landed you in PM 18 years ago? I have Rheumatoid Disease that came with a few icky things coupled with my body rejecting treatment. It's one heck of a rodeo at times. Do you like your PM doctor? Do you get much help at work/home? I know that for me right now I have a lot of help, one day not too far in the future that will change and so I'm working really hard to have a few more ducks in a row. No matter what you're facing, even if we've not gone through that particular thing we are totally here to listen and help if we can. Often I felt alone in this mess of a body and come to find out that I may not share the disease but trials and tribulations caused by the disease...so many people related. It was good to know I'm not alone.

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