Doctors Willing To Prescribe Heavy Pain Medication In Colorado (Page 96)

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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THANK YOU MEDS CHAT for ensuring that your initial mission continues on.

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Medschat Admin, Thanks. I'm sort of new to all this, so I have lots to learn.

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Lucy, Very sorry about your sister. Fibromyalgia is the first chronic illness I developed and was diagnosed in 2000. I knew nothing about it and no one that I talked to seemed to know much either. 14 years later I still am learning new things about it. The whole body seems to be involved not just the quads of pain. Eyesight, fibro fog, pain, etc etc. Then I added arthritis and discs, so just falling apart.
Pain is an amazing thing. It controls so much of your life. Overdoing it is what happens almost every good day that I have, you are so right, there is so much to try to keep up with. But we all want somewhat of a normal life again. The fatigue that is almost a constant part of the fibromyalgia is as hard to deal with as the pain.

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Lucy, you also hit on some very goods points about the future. I try not to think about it. I spend almost all my time thinking about what I can manage to get done today and perhaps planning for a week from now, but long range thoughts, I try to stay away from. Those thoughts aren't usually very good ones.
The pain medication that I have now, seems to keep me at a very level point most days. I do all the other things for pain management, which we started in 2000 and added to and changed as the years went on. I wasn't given any pain medication until a little over four years ago. After my last xrays in May, the rules are now, absolutely no gym, simple equipment is a no also. He is afraid that I'll do more damage than good. Walking and the pool are the only two exercises allowed at this point.
My family tries to understand, but as you said, unless you have experienced It, there isn't really any way to understand how powerful pain is. I sort of look at pain as a creature from a nightmare now LOL.

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Thank you very much, I used to have lots of trolls I thought were friends, I got rid of them.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH LUCY .And Rainbow, thank you .I been on this site a long time since the start.Im crying this your kind words the acceptance, from you just the past day.Most of the time I'll talk write and Noone will respond to me .It is hard to find friends that aren't scared of me dying on them.Some of you kind of been unkind .I felt like an outcast that all changed some how when sick o started his crap. thank you everyone.

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I could only read part way through your post. First, I am so sorry about the loss of your sister. Second, I totally understand what you are saying about playing catch up. On bad days or weeks in some cases, I don't do anything, dishes laundry, or sweep. When I feel well enough to get our of bed I must catch up otherwise I can't relax in a pig sty. Then by the end of the day I have exhausted myself and I am down again, it seems like a never ending cycle. I am literally crying just telling you about it.
And about the taking of my own life, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't pray I won't wake up tomorrow. In fact, I hate bedtime, because I am not ever totally out of pain and I have to lie there and think, feel and live in the deafening silence and try not to cry to loud and keep my husband awake. And then after a night with little sleep and pain, I wake up angry that I am still alive. And so begins another day! If it wouldn't hurt the ones I love, but it will and I just can't do that to them. They don't deserve it. But when someone tries to tell me that God never gives us more than we can handle, I tell them BULLSH##! Walk a day in my shoes and then try to do it for 10yrs!

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A lot of you have been very ill for a long time, but you seem to be also, on good days, able to manage to fit in some sort of normal. I mean like on good days, doing the work that stacks up on bad days. When I first came to Medschat, what I was looking for was ideas on how to do things in an easier way. I was looking for ideas from people, cause it seems that if I can find an easier way, then I can do it.
That didn't make much sense did it? What I mean is like I couldn't vacuum so I bought a shop vac and I can use that because I'm only pulling the hose, not the weight of a vacuum cleaner. I wasn't able to mop the floors, so I bought a Shark steam cleaner and now I can mop the floors. All on good days of course LOL.

That's the sort of ideas that I'm looking for. Anyone developed little tricks to do things that you were having trouble with?

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Smalls AKA, you sound so sad. I am so sorry, I wish I had an answer for all of us. You do have a loving family and so many good things too. I wish there were some way to make you only think about those good things.
I was saying earlier that I feel as if pain is an actual creature that came from my nightmares, and has invaded my life. I know that sounds sort of crazy, but pain controls so much that it doesn't just seem to be a feeling anymore, but an actual powerful evil entity.
Please try to focus on what is good and try to put the negative out of your mind. Good thoughts actually do make you feel better. Lots of people care what is happening to you.

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I'm awake because I wasn't able to get my pain meds until today, the 30 day cycle was Sunday and the pharmacy is closed and because of all the problems, they wouldn't or couldn't give me my meds a day early (Sat). I wasn't just in pain yesterday, I am completely into the horrible cycle that happens to me whenever anything changes.

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OMG I am so sorry

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Thank you very much CO SUSIE, I really appreciate that.
To reply to your previous post, one thing I was taught by my son was always start cleaning, where you started last time. So if yesterday you were able to clean the bathroom, today you clean that bathroom first. Reason: it always felt as if I no sooner got done cleaning one room, when the room I did yesterday was a mess again. So by station in the same room, you gain time and more clean rooms. Example: today bathroom, tomorrow bathroom and kitchen, next day bathroom and kitchen again, because it was to messy to complete in one day. Day after that bathroom, kitchen and living room, rest 1 day no matter what, bathroom, kitchen, living room and ? room and continue until house is clean. Every 2 or 3 days rest at least half the day if not more to prevent overdoing it. I am going to start again tomorrow, worked on the kitchen today, I will keep you updated on progress.

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I've been up three nite straight , I'm starting to see crap

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Me too CO Susie. thats messed up!!

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hi to everyone...firstly i feel for all of you..to have Someone calling the shots on Ones lives is a Frightening thing!!! i Know From 26years of Having crohns disease not to mention the roller Coaster ride that Goes with living with crhonic illnesses!!! look sadly like so many things in this world there r the people out there who wreck it for the rest of us! i alone have seen an Enormous Change in the way our doctors conduct themselves now than not even so many years Back when it comes to writing out 'DRUGS' as they view them...!they have forgotten about the Bloody pain many of us put up with,plus the fact that most of us Don't have a life too!!! ISN'T THIS ENOUGH, NO, NOW THEY TREAT US LIKE CRIMINALS TOO! I'VE HONESTLY LOST COUNT OF THE AMOUNT OF CONSULTATIONS WHICH WERE NOT ONLY A WASTE OF MY TIME BUT IT WAS DETRIMENTAL TO MY MENTAL STATUS!!! NO ONE HAS EVER SPOKEN TO ME THE WAY SO MANY OF THESE DOCTORS HAVE!!!YOU'VE KNOW IDEA! SELFISH,SPITEFUL,ARROGANT DOESN'T NEARLY COVER THEIR ATTITUDES... IT MADE ME ATTEMPT SUICIDE, I SHOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY,SOMEONE UP THERE WAS LOOKING OUT FOR ME. I'LL NEVA ASK ANY DOCTOR FOR PAIN MEDS AGAIN!DO NOT THINK I CAN HANDLE BEING BRANDED A 'DRUG SEEKER' AGAIN. ...DEPRESSING, HEY, SORRY FOR THAT, GUESS THE TRUTH HURTS...CRAIG, LOVE U ALL N GOOD LUCK.

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Wendy you are welcome u can send me a email anytime or on hear. It makes me feel. Better knowin I made you feel better do we have each others emails? Wel I wil request yours and u can request mine

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Why 3 nights are you ok

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Rainbow , you and lucy were the only people that ever spoke to me on here .Lucy has written to me off line.. Anyone that wants to talk send the request .

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CoSusie, I'm sorry about your med problem. This is absolutely unacceptable. My insurance also counts how many days it's been and uses some type of formula for determining how many days in advance (none) I can get a script filled before I run out. I wish the people writing these stupid rules would walk one day in my shoes without pain meds and I guarantee you that rule would be changed, lol.

It's really nice to have others who understand what's it's like to have something of a good day and you try to get as much done as you can because you never know when you'll have another one. My family yells at me that I'm doing too much, yet they don't understand . I also have 2 teenagers who do nothing to help me. My hubby pitches in but he also works full time and pulls as much overtime as he can as I've been disabled since 1996 so we need that income. I break the housework down and do certain things on certain days, like today I cleaned the kitchen,dining and living room. That's the only system I've gotten to work for me.

Anonymous I know it sucks to be in pain all the time but please don't wish for death you do have people who care for you and that loss would devastate them.

When I asked the administrators to step in and help with all the" trolling" we had going on, I also asked about a closed group. That is something they might have available in the future as other people have also asked about it.

I'm available by email to anyone who wants to chat that way also. :)
Let's try to get back to the awesome helpful group that Mac originally started!

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Cindy and Smalls AKA,
Thank you so much. That's exactly what I'm looking for!! It seems so simply brilliant, and you would think someone would think of it on their own, but that's the brilliance of it. Divide the work up so it's a manageable amount (just looking at a large mess can fatigue me LOL). Then because you are absolutely right that it's seems to be a mess the day after you clean it, go back to that room!!
I have gotten so angry about cleaning, it really hasn't been fair to my husband. But it takes so much of my effort, I have to force myself, then the next day it looks as if I hadn't touched anything. Thank you and anytime you notice yourself doing a small thing to save effort, please share it with me.

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