Doctors Willing To Prescribe Heavy Pain Medication In Colorado (Page 47)

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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I was starting to get addicted, i was using way to much medication. So i told my dr how i was feeling. I had also started suboxone. Now that i am on the program No one will write me anything. I just had back surgery 3 weeks ago and had trouble getting the pharmacy to fill my script.

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Did you ever find a Dr? I cant afford CPR.

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Wendy, im on medicaid as well. I cant afford to go to CPR. I wish i could, seems like everyone really likes them. I have a pain mgt dr that wont perscribe narcotics anymore. Ineed a new dr. Could you give me the name of your dr? Thank you.

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Janey girl i just read your post from the beginning of April. I use to go to Co rehab, they had 1 dr that accepted medicaid but then he moved away and i was forced to find a new guy. My new guy wont write me anything anymore. I will be calling Co rehab on monday to see what they say. Thanks for your post and the dr names and numbers. I cant live this way anymore and need help. I put myself on Suboxone about 8 months ago and now i cant get any help. I feel so trapped. Hopefully i will get help

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If you are choosing to get off meds and go to suboxone you have to understand that's a sign of addiction, plus doctors' nuts are in the clamp right now. Sorry to tell you but it is going to be hard to find anyone to Rx pain meds when you got on suboxone because you wanted to get off pain meds. I know that if I stll have chronic pain I would never try to get off of them. If you can't control your meds and got off of them because you were getting addicted, that's a HUGE red flag. I think you should go with alternative therapies and lay in your bed that you made because it is going to be next to impossiblee to get back on pain meds. It's nearly impossible for legit people with no addiction problems or suboxone therapies to get what they need. Not trying to be mean, just giving it to you straight. If you had an addiction problem, you take the mental strength and lower your tolerance. It's not fun but suboxone is the easy way out and this is where it leads.

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Dear Editors Note, if I really need 2 speak to someone privately. How could I do that ? Thank you! Much appreciated.

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Mac, not true. My RA so far has resisted every treatment we've tried. I'm on my 10th biologic. I ended up in suboxone in a debacle. I wanted off opioids and went to a detox so I wasn't at home alone. Rather than letting me go the hell & clonidine route I wanted, Dr. Miller of Louisville thought suboxone was the answer. I was naive. So my plan is to ween off before I go a full year on it.
Blanket statements are what give pain management a bad name.

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My doctor would turn you away .Anyone with history of pill abuse they frown on.Your going to have to go to a pay clinic , no one else will touch you your a red flag .I'm sorry to be blunt .

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itching is a side effect of morphine. i only itch if i take too much. i have not had nausea yet from it. my normal day is 30mg MS Contin + Fiorinal 3 + 5 mg Lisinopril for BP with breakfast. Another MS Contin and F-3 with lunch, and one more set with supper with an additional F-3 if I have any significant breakthrough. That seems to work reasonably well for me. I'm far from pain free, but it keeps it down to a tolerable level.

Only side effect I'm having to deal with is a bit of constipation. I tried one weekend to use hash instead of MS-Contin to get away from the constipation, but it was minimally effective on my pain.

If you are itching, you are taking too much.

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Rain-take a claritin or other allergy pill to help with itching. They have a good one at the 99 cent store!

And tell your doc ASAP. You need that chartrd. There are other options, but many are itchy as well...

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Nikki try Doctor Fine in Littleton he takes medicade.

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Kuaka-4-8 oz of watermelon on an empty stomach in am and pm will help constipation

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Thankd for the info everyone my dr took me off cuzvi was in the hospital for a server allergic reaction the more I took it the more the reaction got bigger my lips tongue swolled n my throat started 2 shut So I sat in the hospital almost a whole day and my dr just put me back on wat I started with

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I have a lot of chronic pain problems, yes i was taking a lot of medication and yes i put myself on Suboxone because of the meds. I know i made my bed and now have to lay in it. You seem to be judging me because i am trying to better my health. I am not one who dr shops, or anything like that. I told my pain mgt dr exactly how i was feeling and he took me off the pain meds, thats why i started the suboxone because i couldnt stand the withdrawls. Now that i am in pain again i came here for help and you seem to be lecturing me for the decision i made when i was desperate.

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Nicki u spoke of withdrawals was it because u were talkin more then ur daily dose n runnin out b4 ur next dr appt? Were u stil havin ur chronic pain at the time?? Im just wonderin if u were on pain meds why wld u get off totally instead of just cutting dwn??? Even tellin the drs u did ur own is probably makin them feel uneasy as 2 put u back on pain meds since u were dependent on them once b4 and now ur off n clean..u cld try callin rocky moutain internal medicine strasburg clinic they take Medicaid but u need all ur MRI XRAYS anything that proves u really need 2 be back on let me no if u want that number

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Boy, I can't relate to your issue! I have "taken myself" by tapering multiple times and tried suboxone! I relate it to a psychiatric patient no longer feels they need the medicine but slowly or quickly without issue, u r in withdrawal! If bad. Meaning really dehydrated, headache from very high blood pressure and flu like symptoms that makwe u feel like u r going to die, u really should go to the er! Be honest with them! They will provide short term care, perhaps a day or two to get u rehydrated and refer u back to your doc! Be honest with him! If u really do want to b off them, there r safer methods that doesn't cost an arm or a leg! I myself can't take methadone, which is just as hard to get off of but I've tried suboxone! Within. Thirty minutes, my hands were swollen, tongue swollen and felt worse than u could imagine! Apparently it was the narcan in the suboxone that did this! It gave me a screaming headache on top of it all! There is also a preparation without narcan that seems to perform well! You can try this! A word to the wise, if your doc seems to b doing nothing but increasing your medication dosages, look at this as a red flag! The number one killer of taking heavy duty narcs is taking dosages so high that they stop u from breathing! Unless u want to die, check "normal" dosages and question your doc if he wants to up your dosage! Most good doc's will change up your medicines to something similar! There r very easy ways to calculate what one dose should equal another dosage, such as Oxycotine vs MS Contin is 1 and 1/2 times stronger than the MS Contin! They can calculate all the dosages from Vicodan to Oxycodone! Remember oxycodone is basically Percodan without Tylenol, so the same calculations are exactly the same! If u question if your dosage is right, u can find conversion charts! Most doc's will under dose when changing, give it a week and it no relief call them back but it does take time to readjust to any medicine changes! I keep having people continuing to ask about doc's and have referred many! As I've said! I'm not only an RN, ran a pain management program but have tons of referrals! Someone mentioned Colorado Rehab! They r really good, they have offices all over town and although I have some folks I like better, all are good! I find one of the hardest things is that I've has this issue over 20 years now and I tend to mimimalize my symptoms! If u r like me, make sure u bring your complete history and all documentation, mri's, cat scans and such! Please b careful of these guys who bring u into their office, ask u what works and writes a script without even examining you! These guys probably aren't going to b working long and it isn't easy to find another one! I lucked out and found this thread but it was after 3 months, getting meds from several different doc's, more than likely getting my chart flagged! I am partial to CPR but there r also other guys out there! One last thing, if u r looking for drugs, this isn't the place to b! I've been very discouraged with many of the posts, this isn't a place to trade, buy or figure out where to get drugs! It wasted for folks with real pain management issues and how to get help! Not what doc gives the best drugs! Please don't screw stuff up for folks like us that truly have medical issues!

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I wish there was a machine that simulated intractable pain so people like you and the politicians could be hooked up to find out what it is like to live with chronic pain. The fact is that the pain most of us have with pain medications is still extreme and it would put the average person in a hospital begging for pain medications. I have a very high tolerance for pain and I tried going without opiates for the first 2 years using homeopathic therapies, herbs, acupuncture, painful injections and even had a complete hysterectomy in my mid 30s to rid myself of the pelvic pain that had me doubled over in pain. After years of minimal medication and painful procedures I was finally diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis and all of sudden the doctors were sympathetic and giving me medication. However, now thanks to all those that have abused drugs; mixed them with alcohol or just use them to feel high; along with these government officials that are destroying the patient doctor relationship by thinking that close to 100 million pain patients can just handle it. If the government and particularly Colorado's governor Hickenlooper thinks they have a problem with deaths from drugs and their answer is to not allow doctors and pharmacists to give pain patients their medications they will have millions of many deaths on their hands. It is not humanly possible to live with this type of pain indefinitely and If you can get away with only needing 3 pills a day then you can go without, but when 3 pills in 3 hours does not phase pain the only option is using a gun. Narcotic pain medication has helped me for the past 20 years and allowed me to keep my career until the pain made it too difficult. You are one of those that really do not know what you are talking about - and using all CAPS - to yell at us tells me you are an addict - not opiate dependent - big difference. Sounds like you resent that you can not get more drugs because if you genuinely had true chronic pain you would show some insight and empathy not anger.

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Sounds like I pop in at a bad time .Look people we all need to help one another , not start a witch hunt .Yes when I first started on here I thought the same , all these people want is to score drugs with a few excluded people .I joined this to make friends that won't judge me because I'm sick .I thought here is the one place I can get help support and feel like a person again .Some of you have been great .And others only care what places will hook them up with drugs.My point is we all k now who is faking who is real .Who cares help the legit and keep this forum the way you guys meet it for .

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Janeygirl and LIberty I agree with u both I have notice myself akot of new comers just wantin 2 no wat dr gives u wat..thats not how this lnfo line works we give ppl advice if thet truly need help not just 2 run 2 this 1st dr office 2 be high again it just seem sum ppl have a shady theme 2 them.They get on here 1 time and if u dnt give them the info they lookin 4 they dnt come back or they probably go 2 the dr and say hey I saw ur name on a mde chat line I read sum info and im comin 2 u cuz I need wat ever pain med they lookin 4 just 2 feel high cuz they have no med proof and once again us who need it get the s*** from the dr cuz sum1 tryin 2 get meds they dnt need went runnin 2 they off s*** I had a hard enough time gettin into kasier just cuz tha dr that took over dr ryan cut me off from seein her and if dr ryan wasnt at kasier id be runnin the world lookin 4 help cuz they gave me a hard hard time bout my pain meds but have kasier talkin wit dr ryan lookin thru all my records they finally put me back on. My btother diedbof a drug overdose 2 percocet cuz his dr kept givin n givin after his broken arm healed instead of takin him off I think about him everyday wen I walked in his room and he looked like he was starin off into outer space but no he was gone I will never 4get that..

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Hi there. So happy you were able to find a doc. I am in the same boat as you, can you kindly share the name or number of the doc you found? Thanks so much!!

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