Doctors Willing To Prescribe Pain Medication In Las Vegas Nv (Page 2)
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I have mouth cancer that is very painfull and have been taking opioids/pain meds for many years. My tolerance is extremely high, so to have the meds actually work on the pain i'm needing a lot more than most. Just a guide of what i thank would help me and my history with pain meds: About 360 roxys 30mg, 180-240 lortabs 10mg, 90 morphine er mg, 150 xanax 2mgs, and 180 somas, which is not a lot to me. Is there any Dr. in las vegas, NV willing to write like this any more? #CANCER PAIN IN VEGAS

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Re: Gina (# 263)

Smith's is good for all kinds of rx.

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You are physiologically in need of the rx. Your brain and body are so tolerant, immune & used to the narcotics that they are sending pain signals when the meds start to where off. If you don't stop taking or alter the amount downward, you will soon have huge problems; your withdrawals if you try to go one day without them will be 10X worse than your current pain level. You will think you are in pain but actually it's withdrawals. You should seek professional help before stopping or lowering any rx. No Dr in LV will fill that rx, nor should they.

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Re: Sandie (# 264)

I will file complaints, look for a new pharmacy etc. Write Debra Houry with the CDC...she has a hand in writing the damned guidelines that have all tue pharmacies and doctors freaking out. Bombard her with letter after letter informing her of the ramifications of her stupid guidelines, and if enough of us semdbher letters, she may finally understand what us true chronic pain sufferers are going thru and the damage she has done,

If you are disabled, you can file a complaint against the doctor or pharmacy that arent helping you. Technically, they are violatingbour constitutional rights under the constitution as well as violating the ADA...americans disability act, which protect us from being treated differently because we have a physical disability, amlnd their actions, or lack of action has stolen your quality of life because you cant get adequate pain relief

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Re: Gina (# 258)

Thanks for this info. So what can we really do about this?

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Re: Gina (# 261)

She is my doctor and does write my scripts for the pain pills, the problem i am having is the pharmacy has stated they will no longer fill these scripts unless they are written by a pain management doctor. So, i am trying to find a pharmacy that will just fill the scripts and not give me a hard time. It is stupid that a pharmacy can essentially revoke a doctors DEA license.

Pharmacists can only refuse to fill a valid prescription if there is a serious medication interaction. Or they truly believe that filling the script would cause the customer serious harm. Yet, this same pharmacy has filled these exact scripts for 5 years with no changes in quantity or dosage....so obviously, they can't claim the fear of serious harm. All of this crap we are being put thru is ridiculous. I don't like being forced to go to a pain mgmt doctor when my scripts and my pain pill regiment is working fine and i am functioning better now than anytime since before my last surgery in 2010.

On top of all the stupid requirements on who it is that writes the scripts etc, the pharmacy and the pain mgmt doctors are all saying the same lies. "The CDC and DEA have new guidelines and limit the quantity and dosage patients can be prescribed. DR K referred me to 1 pain mgmt doc and he told me that i would go down to 90 mg a day total and no more and then told me its the law"

1. CDC IS NOT A LEGISLATIVE BODY
2. CDC CAN'T WRITE LAWS
3. CDC CAN'T ENFORCE LAWS
4. WHAT THE CDC WROTE WAS A GUIDELINE, AND NEVER MEANT TO BE APPLIED TO CHRONIC PAIN
5. DEA IS NOT A LEGISLATIVE BODY
6. DEA CANNOT WRITE LAWS
7. THERE ARE NO LAWS LIMITING THE QUANTITY NOR DOSAGE A DOCTOR CAN WRITE

SO, THEY ARE ALL LYING AND TREATING US LIKE WE ARE STUPID.

Every time i am told something about my VALID PRESCRIPTIONS, I FILE A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE PHARMACY....there is a website that you can go to and file the complaint in 1 place and it will be investigated. The only way we are going to get the pain medication most of us need is to not take their crap, not accept their lies, and take action when they fabricate laws and rules etc.

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Re: Ryan (# 1)

Hey Ryan. My name is Nikko. I currently am moving out to Las Vegas, NV within two weeks and ever since that horrible shooting in Vegas I'm on my way down there to locate my daughter. I'm a retired marine and I don't want to deal with any VA and want nothing to do with VA's, so if you can give me a heads up on a great pain doctor I'd greatly appreciate it.

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Re: David Pain (# 242)

Try dr anne kristensen. She is a gp. But will write pain pills for special cases. She is awesome. She will also help ypu find a pain mgmt doc if needed

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Re: Tami (# 247)
That's exactly what my double fusion surgeon did.....what??? you have pain in your legs, you just want painkillers, there is nothing wrong with you. I am dropping you as a patient and referred me to a pain management doctor that didn't write pain pill prescriptions, nothing but 14 different kinds of psychotropic medications to trick my brain into thinking I didn't have pain. Essentially, I self-medicated for 2 years then finally got a GP who would listen to me and ordered an MRI of my entire spine to find I had:

- Severe degenerative disc disease
- the Double fusion failed
- the level above the fusion had herniated
- 14 levels with stenosis
- 3 levels with bone spurs
- a mass attached to the sciatic nerve
- 2 herniated discs in my neck
- and the list goes on and on and on....

Now, I get written the pain medication I need, and was told to use it to deal with the pain as long as I can manage it, because the only thing they can do at this point is a triple fusion, but they know that will fail as well, and don't want to do it until i can no longer manage the pain with drugs. So the problem I have...THE PHARMACY DOESNT WANT TO FILL MY SCRIPTS.... keep in mind, I have been on this exact medication and strength for over 3 years, and the same pharmacy has been filling them for all this time, from the same doctor.....NOW.... they claim they cant fill them if they aren't written by a pain management doctor. My doctor has referred me to 2 so far and both have stated.....YOU WILL GO DOWN TO 90MG A DAY, end of story. Then lie to me and state that the laws by THE CDC and DEA state no patient can be prescribed more than 90 mg a day of morphine/morphine equivalent.

ALL THAT IS A LIE... the CDC is not a legislative body...they do not write laws, nor can they enforce any laws. And the DEA has no LAWS limiting the amount, quantity, nor dosage. IT IS ALL LIES they tell us to shut us up.

I am so damn sick of people treating me like a drug seeking addict, lying to me as though i am stupid, and basically ensuring i live a life with ZERO QUALITY. This is complete bulls***.

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Re: Sandie (# 257)

DR Grover is still in las vegas, he was my, well supposed to be my surgeon for the triple fusion i was to have had 3 years ago, but they determined i have severe degenerative disc disease and the triple would fail as epically as the double did in 2010. Basically i was told i would be on narcotics the rest of my life and to use them as ling as i can to put off the triple fusion because it wont work. AND NOW....i am having trouble every month getting my scripts filled tyanks to the CDC guideline, even though they admit it was never written to he applied to chronic pain patients

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Re: Mojoworkin (# 248)

You all are being LIED TO. THE DEA HAS ZERO LAWS REGARDING THE AMOUNT OR DOSAGE that can be prescribed. Any doctor or pharmacy that tells you otherwise is LYING TO YOU. There is not a single DEA law that limits the number of pills or the dosage a doctor can prescribe. The pharmacies that tell you the DEA stopped their shipments...ARE LYING TO YOU.

Here is the deal with no lies and no BS. There is an "epidemic" of people overdosing on prescription medications in this country. So, as with any other supposed epidemic, people go bats*** crazy because poor little Jimmy accidentally killed himself by taking too many oxycodone at one time, Mommy and Daddy are heartbroken, so they are lashing out, demanding these are not so readily available and on the streets of America to save other parents from the heartache and devastation of burying one of their children. I don't want to sound like an uncaring ass here, but, I am probably just an uncaring ass. In response to the supposed "epidemic", the CDC put out an opioid prescribing guideline letter. In it, they suggest that doctors not prescribe more than 90 mg daily of any opiate morphine/morphine equivalent. What has ensued is a knee jerk backlash over-reaction response. The CDC is the center for disease control, they are not a law writing, legislative, nor law enforcement organization. They are the organization that released the stupid "GUIDELINES" that have caused all the doctors and pharmacies to react and restrict the prescribing and filling of the opioid medications.

JUST SO YOU KNOW.....DR DEBRA HOURY MD, is the MPH DIRECTOR of National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. In other words, a big shot at the CDC who had a huge hand in the guideline written and released by the CDC that has caused the mess.

SHE HERSELF, has stated that everyone is overreacting to the guideline written and it is being implemented and enforced in a manner in which the CDC never intended. Let me give you a few quotes from her letter that I happen to have a copy of:

"Patients, such as yourself, with chronic pain deserve safe and effective treatment."

"The Guideline is a set of voluntary recommendations intended to guide primary care providers as they work in consultation with their patients to address chronic pain."

"Specifically, the Guideline includes a recommendation to taper or reduce the dosage only when the patient harm outweighs the patient benefit of opioid therapy. The Guideline is not a rule, regulation, or law. It is not intended to deny access to opioid pain medication as an option for pain management. It is not intended to take away physician discretion and decision-making."

"Furthermore, CDC encourages physicians to continue to use their clinical judgment and base their treatment on what they know about their patients. It is the ultimate goal of the Guideline to ensure people who need them have access to opioids, while reducing opioid related deaths."

SO...... All this whoopla is all about nothing. The doctors and the pharmacists are all lying to all of us.

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Re: Michelle (# 243)

Are you in Las Vegas? Where is Dr Grover at, in Las Vegas????

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Re: Rleigh (# 250)

Hello! Yes I still need a doctor. I live in Henderson, but Vegas is okay location also. Thank you!!!

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Re: Buddy (# 7)

Google the pain medicine and it will tell u the company that makes it and go on their web site and download a discount card. They help a lot.

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Re: Rleigh (# 250)

Yes I do same medication for years who will prescribe oxycodone 30mg thanks

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Re: Mich17 (# 236)

I suggest you find a neurologist that specializes in headaches for your migraines. They can change your life. When I have a migraine my whole body hurts. If you need opioids then you need to see your family doctor to get a referral to a pain management MD. You must also build up a dedicated relationship with a pharmacy to make sure they keep a supply of your pain meds. If you don’t the pharmacies will ALWAYS be OUT of the type of medication you need. Like it or not this is the way the law works.

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Re: BL (# 40)

The Jurani Clinic in Las Vegas is where I go for my hydrocodone. I have a herniated disc, fibromyalgia, a brain injury, arthritis in both hands and carpal tunnel.

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Re: dale (# 8)

I live in vegas and suffer badly with fibromyalgia degennetive dic desease and very bad arthritis. Iam only 56 yrs old and the quality of my life SUCKS!! WHY, BECUZ THERE ISNT ONE DOCTOR in this pkace that isnt runnung scarred and they just wont write for adequate pain releif. And if you find one thst does. GOODLUCK FIBDING A PHARMACY THAT WILL FILL IT OR HAVE IT. SO BEWARE YOUCE BEEN Wrned ive been going thru this for over two yrs now. And the doctors that will write dont take any insurance ANY INSURANCE CASH PAY ONLY!!

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Re: Dub2552 (# 228)

I only get 1 medication total. My doc isn't what you may be looking for. He is a family doc and will send someone to pain management. Are you still needing a doc? And you are in Vegas?

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Re: Tami (# 247)

Sorry to read all you are going through. I have heard back surgery can make things worse. Then when the Dr. Finds out surgery didn't work they drop you. Are you in las Vegas?

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I highly doubt it, not all of that. I can't see why a dr would risk everything to prescribe all that to anyone, I don't care what your pain is from or how severe, no dr that wants to keep his license and freedom is going to prescribe you all of that at once, not here anyway. The DEA is too overbearing now, even if you got a dr to write all those prescriptions I don't think the pharmacy would fill all of them. Too much heat. I KNOW walgreens wouldn't. About 5 yrs ago the DEA started tightening the noose on opiates and the pharmacies complied, the drs got scared. The pharmacies work with the DEA to red flag "suspicious" activity whether it be prescribers or patients. The DEA has been increasingly more and more controlling, the CDC guidelines are now rules as far as the drs are concerned. They are intimidated by the DEA, they'd rather be safe than sorry. Very cautious prescribing opiates especially with benzos and somas. The drs don't want to prescribe pain meds with benzos anymore somas either. I've been on oxys, somas, and benzos my whole life since I was 13 I'm 35 now, have no history of abusing my meds or drugs, and a yr ago my dr said they wouldnt prescribe me oxys anymore unless I stopped taking my klonopin. Then they said they "dont prescribe soma anymore" started giving me tizanadine. I stopped taking my klonopin, couldnt stand the anxiety anymore, started taking xanax 3 mg a day and went to a different pain clinic. No on the soma, and they told me I could only take 1 mg MAX of whatever benzo. I went down to 1 mg ativan the dr told me NO BENZOS OF ANY KIND PERIOD. And I was on way less of everything than what you are saying you need. Let me know if you find a dr who will prescribe you pain meds while you are taking benzos, I have learned that I may have to deal with it. Good luck.

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