Doctors Willing To Prescribe Pain Medication (Page 152)
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Can you tell me about any doctors who can prescribe Vicodin

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Here is something my one chronic pain patient friend is doing to try to help us all. Please read and see if you can get help this way:

PainShare -
Please share this in the hopes that it may reach a person suffering from painful diseases. We are here to help. We are websites run by pain patients dedicated to the education and awareness of chronic pain issues. People in pain are all around you. Most pain diseases are “hidden Illnesses” and most patients are too proud to express or talk about their pain from fear of being disbelieved by their peers. We are here to listen and share. Show you care. Share this message and the links. How hard can it be? Thank You.

PEAR - Patient Engagement, Awareness & Re-invention - Dennis P. Kinch, Director.

Walk for Healing " patient to patient educational materials, Amazing story of a man who figured out how to get out of the Pain Cycle. -
walkforhealing.weebly.com

USPain Foundation " A complete source of learning, news, support - uspainfoundation.org

Pain Pathways magazine " News and stories of people in pain. Lots of self-help articles, support links.- painpathways.org

Also, I've posted there and also started a petition at:
petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-judgement-of?source=c.em.cp&r_by=10582339

This petition is going out to the DEA and all government officials to help them understand there are 100+million chronic pain patients, who are suffering terribly, but are being thought as drug abusers. They are putting us in the "War on Drugs," when we are not smugglers, sellers, abusers or part of any cartels. We do not get a "high," on our medications. We need them to help us live a more humane life.

Admin:
I am repeating this petition link, I made, because the first time, I posted it, is now buried on another page. Please allow me to keep posting it, as it disappears off the first page.

Thank you and may God Bless all who are suffering so intensely...

Always!

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Jimmy,
I am so sorry you are suffering so much. I am almost the same, because of the doctors, quitting, not retiring, but just disappearing for fear of losing their licenses, trying to help chronic pain patients, like you and myself. I don't know what to tell you, maybe if you mention what state you are in, people might know some doctor who will still help you.
I posted a website, a petition, to all government people, including the DEA, to not include us in their "War on Drugs," but to concentrate on the actual abusers, cartels and drug smugglers. Not to go after honest doctors, patients who are suffering immensely and the pharmacies and honest manufacturers. We aren't asking for drugs for recreational purposes, for we don't get "highs" on these medications, (not drugs). They go straight to our pain receptors, fooling them into thinking there is no pain. This makes us human again, so we can care for others, including ourselves and to stay out of bed, to live life again. But, if things don't change, if people just sit back and do nothing, we will all end up suicidal tendencies and possible go through with it. Then, there will end up being more deaths, in the U.S. alone, than there will be cancer and heart patients. We are suffering as much as these patients, yet there is no sympathy, understanding or caring about us. Please, if you are able, go down to one of my posts, I think it is #3552, where I posted that link, for the petition to help us all. They won't allow me to post it, here, because I already posted it, before.
May God Bless You, I have you in my prayers...
Always!

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That is not always the case, (in reference to Ultram (tramadol)), and not all medications requiring a prescription are controlled. Also, Ultram (tramadol), is NOT considered a controlled substance in some states, at all. Don't get me wrong, many states have been adding Ultram (tramadol) to their controlled substance list for many years, however there are several states that have NOT included Ultram (tramadol) on their controlled substance list, and it can be obtained fairly easy through a primary care physician. It can also be called in or faxed in to the pharmacy without a "hard copy" or the use of the prescribing physician's DEA number.

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I was in car accident in 1998 or 99. Got t-boned by F-250 pulling a trailer at 60 mph Fell from 6'ft step ladder onto concrete floor injuring my hand arm and back in Dec '04 - Jan '05. Fell from 24'ft ladder Oct.'05, broke back in 4 places Fell from top floor of house did cartwheel mid air and landed downstairs on marble foyer shattered right heel and injured back a 4th time. Have bulging disc & bone spurs cervical, thoratic, and lumbar spine. Stenosis Degenerative disc disease, severe at L4-L5 and especially severe at L5-S1. Been on Duragesic 200mcg (100mcg x 2) every 48hrs and oxycodone 30mg x 3 per day for breakthrough. Doc retired and new Doc is cutting my meds in half. Down to 150mcg and 20mg oxy for breakthrough. Im bedridden in so much pain I'm in tears. Need help bad. Can't imagine living another 30 days let alone years. Will be 51 July 4th 2014 God willing. {edited for privacy} Thanks and God Bless, Jimmy....

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BL,
I am assuming you are replying to my post where I stated that I made a letter, saying I would hold harmless the doctor, if I should stop breathing and die, right? What I did was to relieve my doctor's worries that if I stopped breathing, it was because I decided to continue with my medications, that were giving me the only relief I had. So, I could continue to care for myself, my ex-husband who is blind and destitute, and do things around my house, shop and do laundry. Just so she wouldn't worry and continue with my prescription. But, that was only for the morphine. It was only for her. Now, if these two stupid doctors, the jerk and the head of the clinic, should mess me up, so that I die, then I will give my family permission, to go after them. After all, neither of them examined me, they put me back on the morphine, which I was already off of, and took me suddenly off my buprenorphine. Now, the jerk doctor wants me to go on to over the counter pain pills, after he weans me off of the morphine, (again)! I am having difficulties, since being back on it. They should have sent me to a doctor, who is licensed to give me the buprenorphine, continuing helping my pain and keeping me off the morphine. I will not go back to them, I am taking myself off the morphine, as best as I can, so another doctor will see me, not show me the door. I did find three doctors, on the Internet, who are in my city, who does continue with the buprenorphine. The only challenge is, are they still taking Chronic Pain Patients? I've been hearing most of the doctors, in town, are not seeing people like us, anymore. It is against our humane rights not to get care. I found articles where it is written in the laws. I am going to publish it, in length, on this site so we all can see it and use it, if possible. Thank you, for your reply, I do appreciate hearing from you and all the others. Please take care, I have you all in my thoughts...
Always

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If you were to die and it could be proven by medical evidence that the dr didn't exercise sound professional judgement, it would be your family members that could sue. So you saying you wouldn't sue if the meds killed you is a waste of time.

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TBull,
I am not surprised that a "Panel," has decided you don't need these strong medications, for your pain. I wish these people, who don't have any idea what pain is, would get a little, themselves, so they know what we all are suffering. But, those wishes don't come true and I really don't want to wish bad on anyone. However, I am having the same challenge, losing two primary doctors, because they tried to help me. My pain will never go away, just get worse, as I age. It is already affecting my lower half of my body, I can't walk, stand, sit, sleep, (too much pressure from my mattress on my body) or anything, I used to do. I am trying to wean myself off the morphine, regardless of the scripts the last two doctors, (one didn't even see me) and the jerk that I saw, who said after he weans me off, (after putting me back on it), I am to take over the counter pain meds. We all know how that will work.

This is why I am telling everyone I know and in my posts/replies, about my petition (please see post #1322 for the link).

It won't help your suffering, right now, but if I get enough people to sign it, it will go out to all government officials and the DEA, which is the reason why we are going through what you are, with not getting doctors. It's not right that we are compared to drug addicts, for we aren't high on our medications, it goes straight to helping our suffering.

Please, sign the petition and send the link, (copy/paste) to your state's officials and to everyone you know, who is also suffering. You are welcome to send it to as many as you can, for if we get the signatures of many sufferers like you and myself, we will win this battle and get our doctors back and our medications. I am doing the same, posting it all over the different Chronic Pain websites and sending it to people I know. We need one voice, to make these non-sufferers away what our lives are like and how we are suffering on a daily basis, with no hopes of cures.

I do wish you all the best and if I find someone, in my searches on the Internet, I will let you know, so you can make an appointment with them.

May God Bless you and everyone on this site...
Always!

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I NEED A DOCTOR THAT WRITES OXYCODONE IN INDIANAPOLIS OR SOME PLACE CLOSE I HAD A TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT AND KIDNEY CANCER AND MY LEFT KIDNEY REMOVED I HAVE BEEN ON MOROPHINE AND OXYCODONE THE PAST 3 YEARS ONE DOCTOR WENT TO JAIL AND I JUST LOST ANOTHER DOCTOR BECAUSE OF A DRUG PANEL. I AM IN TRUE PAIN.

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Casey,
I am so sad reading the troubles and suffering of your husband. I never received a contract for my getting my morphine, but since my last primary, (not the jerk doctor), I wrote a letter, stating that I was completely responsible about my medications and if I should stop breathing, (her first excuse for wanting to get me off), I wrote, if I did die, it was my responsibility and would hold "harmless," my doctor and the pharmacies. I haven't had blood tests in two years, to prove I am taking my medications responsibility. WE ARE HUMANE BEINGS and need as much care as anyone else. Animals are treated more humanely than we are being treated! So, I am mad, very mad and with this anger, I wrote a petition, for everyone to sign, to give to everyone in the government and the DEA. Here is that link:

petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-judgement=10582339

Please, click on it, and sign it. It is our voice, the voice of 100+ million sufferers, like your dear husband, to get the help we need, the care and stop the oppression we are getting, our doctors and the pharmacies are getting because of a few darn cartels, abusers and smugglers. We are not part of the "War on Drugs," we are not abusers or trying to feel "Highs," from our medications. Stop treating us like scum, DEA! Please, anyone who is suffering, like Casey's husband and myself, sign this petition. The more who sign the more our voices are heard. Thank you for reading this and signing.

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Looking for a doctor to prescribe me anxiety/panic disorder medication in Charlotte NC. Thanks

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Casey, Thanks for letting me know.

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WoW - I spent well over an hour on my first response to BL - the one that "needs to be reviewed before it is posted". I am glad I copied it before hitting *send* - we have had trouble with our internet of late, so I habitually copy things I don't want to lose if the internet *gets fussy*, LOL....

I spent an hour on it because I edited it a lot - I wanted to make sure to honestly and NOT dramatically relay what we have experienced here. As well as thank others for their help.

Now, let's see if it gets posted.

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BL - I responded at length to your question, and for some reason, it "has to be reviewed" before being posted. I must have hit too many "Red Flag" words.

Whatever the case, I thank you for your response -

And, on this Memorial Day Weekend (and Every Day), I thank Every One whom has served from the bottom of my heart - and pray that Your Country cares for YOU, as YOU cared for Your Country (and us).....

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BL - that was the first thing he tried. They ALL made it clear they did NOT take patients with a history of using opiates. Worse, he needs to be referred to a pain management clinic by a primary physician, and no one will touch him out of fear of having an opiate-related patient.

When you say, "there are diagnostics and he has never abused the meds or been irresponsible, he shouldn't have any problem getting care" - well, I guess you don't know what has happened in Michigan in the last year. It is now a Witch-Hunt for any doctors who prescribe opiates for any reasons. The government now audits doctors that do prescribe opiates - trying to prove they are "drug dealers", and harasses them endlessly. It is now trickling down to the pharmacies, as many refuse to carry opiates - and you have to call ahead to those who do to see if they will fill YOUR doctor's prescriptions, since the government likes to scare doctors who will subscribe them by "temporarily investigating them" - and The Big Chain Pharmacies get this list, and won't fill that doctor's prescriptions, even tho' it means nothing but the government decided to out them on a base-less list, "out of suspicion". Then, only locally-owned pharmacies will fill them.

When he was being prescribed - which Always took monthly visits during the 10 years - for the last three 3 of his 10 years, my husband had to sign a contract saying he could be called anytime of the night-or-day to answer to a pill-count, and had to have a UA every month when he went for his refills, to show he had the correct amount of prescribed drugs in his system, and nothing else. He has always used correctly - but THAT doesn't matter to the current crop of doctors in this political climate.

A few months ago, one of his friends dealing with chronic back pain had her relatively low-levels of oxycontin meds cut back by 1/3- which is The New Thing, *weaning* patients off of opiates - and she had some bad nights, took a little extra a few times, and ran out of meds 2 days early - she thought she'd explain it to her doctor - but when she was given a UA (as most opiate-patients are, each visit, to make sure they are not using alcohol or other drugs) - her urine came back too clean - and she was immediately dismissed from care as a suspected dealer - now she can't get any help at all.

Geez, if she was a dealer, wouldn't she be smart enough to make sure she had enough in her system to pass the UA? They wouldn't accept that she had a hard time adjusting to lower amounts so took extra sometimes & ran out early - because she had signed the contract, saying she would only take as directed - and then, she only had traces in her system in stead of the "correct amount"

Fortunately, she went from three pills to two pills a day when they cut her back (I don't know anything about oxycontin (or is it oxycodone?) or their mg strength, so she didn't go through withdrawal much, but now she has no recourse for her very real back pain, as she is labeled as a "suspected dealer" and no one will touch her.

I am very grateful to Y'All for reading all this, as I can go on-and-on-and on, I know - and Thank You for guiding me.

I know this is going to sound awful, but at my husbands' request, I have closed the door to his room and am staying busy elsewhere, as he would rather just suffer for three days than lose his chance to ever have true pain relief again - and, apparently I can do nothing to give him relief - I just irritate him (as everything does right now) and make myself feel awful, by checking in, trying to get him to eat or drink, etc.....I guess, a few more days, and it will start getting better.

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Casey,
I am having the same problem, as your husband is. I have been on prescribed opiates, for about the same amount of time. Even though I took them as directed, sometimes taking one less a day, I am now treated like a drug abuser. I am having the same problems with doctors, in my state. Plus, I can't travel to Tucson, which is 4 hours away to see a pain management clinic. No rheumatologists, in my area, either. It is very disheartening and it is also difficult for me, suffering so much, like your dear husband is. Plus, I am trying to care for a disabled, blind & destitute ex-husband, taking him off the streets, because my daughter has abandoned him. She ignores us, unless she wants something, so I don't have anyone to turn to for help around the house. Every little thing I do, is painful and causes me to be in bed, more than up. I have a power chair, (my retired primary doctor helped me get, for free, from the Scooter Store, thank heavens), but that doesn't help the intense pain in my hips and spine, plus the rest of my body. I only use it, when I have to crawl, otherwise, because I worry about muscle loss and getting fat, on top of everything else.

However, this is what I am doing. The last jerk doctor, (last month, which I was "sent to"), told me there was nothing wrong with me. He plans of reducing my morphine, telling me that I will have to take over the counter medication when I am over the morphine! That stopped working for me, back when I was having my last child. Yet, he and the head doctor, who sent me to him, gave me two scripts, for the last dosage of morphine, my last doctor gave me, before she disappeared. I was off the morphine, using Buprenorphine, she prescribed, thinking the morphine was no longer working. She was going to try a new drug, that tricked the receptors, in my brain, into thinking I wasn't in pain. But, she suddenly disappeared, like my primary of 13 years. I was off the morphine, with her for four months, but then these two jerk doctors, put me back on it, why? Now they are trying to get me off of it, again, making my body go through a lot of chances, thanks to them.

So, I am not filling the last prescription, from that male doctor, I am not going back to him. I also cut my opiate down, (morphine), to only 60mg/day, not the prescribed 180mg/day, trying to get off of it, because, like your husband, no one will see me. I tried cutting the 60 mg. pill in half, only taking 30 mg./day, but that was causing my other symptoms of my other illnesses to come back. So, I will slowly only take a half a pill, every other day, to see if that helps, eventually cutting it back. I hope this will work, for just keeping a little, in my body, is better than cold turkey. If your hubby, can do this it might help. Of course, as I am, he will be in more pain, but I think it will help him to see a new doctor, eventually.

I know of a good woman doctor, highly recommended to me, by my pharmacist, and two others, who is closing up her old practice and is going to the new, UofA clinic, that just opened, very close to my house. I can almost ride my power chair to her. But, she is not taking new patients, until the first of July, so I am hoping to be off the morphine, by then. I am running out of time, so I know, I will have to keep cutting the pills, down, until I am off it, completely. Thank goodness, my last, good doctor, gave me clonidine and trazodone, which I take two each, at night. This helps me with the jitters, which come during the night. During the day, I keep busy, reading, searching on my laptop. It helps a little. Maybe you can do that with your husband, to keep his mind off of things, (if possible, that is).

Dear Casy, I am going to write a petition, on behalf of all of us, to the White House, as they have one on their site. I will advertise where it is, on this site and other Chronic Pain sites, so I can get everyone who is having trouble getting the medications they need, (the honest ones, who follows their prescriptions and don't use the medication for "highs," that is, like your husband and myself). If you possibly can, and you still use the pharmacist that your husband got his opiates from, perhaps you can talk to them and see if they can print up a record, showing that your husband didn't get more of the prescriptions than prescribed. Then you have hard copies, (along with his medical records, I'm assuming you already got, from his doctor, of years, and hand copies of those records, to the doctor, first thing, if you find one to see you. I wouldn't mention about anything he has, even though it was diagnosed, or the medication he is taking right now. Well, not the opiate, anyway. I would go in, "cold turkey," telling the new doctor that he doesn't know what is wrong and he is suffering a long time. Maybe that will work. That is what I am going to do. But, again, I hope to be off the morphine, by the time I see the new lady doctor. Also, is there a lady doctor around your area. I don't know why, but every darn male doctor, I saw was so uncaring and cold, the ladies seem to be more caring and understanding, but maybe that is just me.

In the meantime, dear Casey, I am praying very hard for you, both. For your husband to find a good doctor, who will give him a more humane life, and for you, dear, who is very stressed and worried, I know what that is like, too. I used to care for my dad and my last fiance' who both died of cancer. So, I know how hard it is for you, too. It is such a feeling of helplessness, to watch a loved one suffer, so. So, my prayers are for you both, tonight and always. Plus, I will let everyone know when I post that petition, so everyone will sign it, to let the DEA and government people, who have no medical background, who have no idea of the suffering we are all going through, all 100+ million of us, here in the states, alone, to be aware of this ongoing and getting worse problem. After all, we are part of the "We the People," we should have a humane life, like normals have, and "Justice for All!" They are tramping all over our human rights and I won't stand for it and neither should anyone who is suffering so much, like your husband and others, including myself. I just need a little time to figure out how to word the petition, so if anyone here, would like to give me some input, I would love that, too. Thank you for reading my long reply to you. May GOD Bless you and everyone who is suffering.... Always!

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Casey, why doesn't your husband see a Pain Management Dr ? If his medical records have evidence that he was being prescribed pain meds for legimate pain, there are diagnostic tests and he has never abused the meds or been irresponsible, he shouldn't have any problem getting care.

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If u live in michigan I would try getting medical marijuanna. Then try to get him the "rick Simpson oil". It's a super potent form of the plant. It contains cbd's-cannibidinol. They will put him right to sleep and take away his pain. Hell after a day or 2 he'll b eating again. I know it's not what he's looking for, but from what I hear it really works. Google rick Simpson and see what I'm talking about. Best of luck. I know when I'm done w opioids I'm moving to Colorado to have safe access to the stuff. Hope you at least check it out. At this point you guys have nothing to lose. Good luck and safe journey my friends

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I's So Sorry - auto-correct wrote "superscribed" - very inappropriate for the situation, should have been "subscribed".

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Thank You, Again, Mitchell! Once again, you have been exceptionally knowledgeable and helpful.

I have what I think is a really important story to tell, regarding all these problems, and my husband's desperate search for any kind of help.

He agreed to give up opiates if someone would just help him - but since his Primary Physician had retired, NO Physician would take him as a patient, and he needed one to refer him to a pain clinic.

Since he had been prescribed opiates for 10 years, Not One primary physician would see him. He went so far as to make three appointments without mentioning he was a chronic pain patient, and when he showed up for appointments, all three of those doctors showed him the door. They told him there was Urgent Care, and the emergency room at hospitals. He tried calling The Michigan Osteopathic Association for a recommendation, and got no help.

He has been suffering horribly - I don't know how someone can bear this sort of thing - he is definitively in withdrawal - twitching and moaning - and it is unbearable to watch. But, he says, if he goes in for treatment for it, he may never be get opiates again - and he has lived both ways over the past ten years, getting off for as long a four months at a time, but unable to participate in family functions when he den't take them, and spending most of his time in bed - sometimes up to three days at a time - I have to make him walk to keep blood clots from forming.

This is NUTS - because he was honestly superscribed opiates for 10 years, No Doctor will accept him as a new patient.

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I need a non judgmental pain management doctor in the Virginia area ????? Help

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