Doctors Willing To Prescribe Pain Medication (Page 63)

Can you tell me about any doctors who can prescribe Vicodin

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Need a psin dr in west virginia im also close to winchester va and cumberland maryland i have bad back trouble L4 5 snd s1 i need some relief please can abybody help with a dr that will try to treat your pain and not scared to write something

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Same thing has happened to my husband, who was in terrible accident 10 years ago, can barely walk, and bedridden without opiates - some people NEED and deserve pain meds. Watching him suffer without is making life horrible here, he can't get out of bed most of the time. Did you find anyone? Thanks!

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My former post was posted as a reply to Ruthie in the Lansing area (# 1233) - anyone who can help, would appreciate it!

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The VA and Pain... Where do I start? In '04 I sustained multiple combat injuries to my back. When I first starting using the VA, they were fine, treated me well and prescribed the right about of pain meds to live life....
Fast Forward to modern day. Now when I go in for my appointments, I am treated like a low-life, street-dwelling drug addict. By the reactions I have gotten, you would think that the md's are having to pay for the script out of their own salary.
I wish I had something more helpful to tell you, but I too am looking for help outside the VA system (hence where I found your post).
Sincerely,
InPain...KY

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Pain Vet, Due to the recent national news reports on the number of vets that, according to the report, have died from prescription drug ods. Most vets are now having to go in the private sector for their pain management.

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If anyone in Michigan can advise me, I'd be so grateful! 10 years ago, my husband had two tons of concrete fall on him in a freak accident. His legs were crushed below the knee and he had 30 broken bones. He nearly died several times, was put back together with titanium and cadaver bone, and it took a year of hospitalizations, surgeries, then two months in a physical rehab facility, and then home care/therapy to get him walking - then he had a major myocardial infarction and cheated death the second time, but he has permanent heart damage. He lives in so much pain, it breaks my heart. He had the same physician - who is highly respected in the community - for 25 years. She worked very hard with him, and got him having good quality of life with a combination of morphine and norco. Then, She sold her practice and retired. The doctor who bought her practice treated him like a low-life junkie and kept cutting his meds until he just laid in bed for days from the pain, and had to go without some days to "save up" for special occasions, so he could handle trips in the car without unbearable pain, and socialize without having to leave early from the pain. Then, she cut him off altogether. He finally found a doctor who would prescribe his meds, but that doctor started getting harassed so badly by the-powers-that-be that he finally retired. Now, his replacement won't prescribe opiates. We have already tried all the non-opiate pain management clinics and alternative therapies, but my husband lives in severe chronic pain and having opiates REALLY makes a difference in managing it. And now, it seems that every doctor out there is either too stupid to realize that some patients DO require serious pain medication - or are too afraid to prescribe it. We have spent days calling doctors and specialists and clinics - and no one will take new pain patients who take opiates. Hahaha - we have been treated So Rudely, no sympathy or compassion at all - and one person told my husband he "was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior" - of course he was - he was openly and honestly trying to find a doctor who would write a prescription for opiates to treat his chronic and debilitating pain. I can't bear watching him just lie in bed day-after-day, unable to get up and do anything and unable to sleep for the pain. If he doesn't get help, he has no quality of life. Does ANYONE know a doctor in Michigan who will take pain patients and prescribe opiates? Thanks So Much!!!!!

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This is for Casey! Where in MI are you? If Royal Oak is close, try Beaumont Pain Center. If Pontiac is closer, there's a pain center in either McClaren hospital or POH. Both Beaumont (was a patient there for a few years until I found a new doctor closer to home) and the one in Pontiac will help patients with recent records and a referral from your PCP. If you don't have a PCP, you need to find one. When I first moved to MI and met with my PCP for the first time, she had no problem filling my medications for me and giving me a referral. I have records from every surgery, every MRI and CTscan, physical therapy records, pain management consults ect. Unfortunately, the abusers have ruined it for the people that really do suffer from chronic pain. I wish you and your husband the best of luck. I'm mostly metal on the right side and what wasn't replaced with metal was replaced with bone from other parts of my body without my medication, I am bedridden. I've been there and I feel for your husband. I hope I was able to help.

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He will just have to try different Pain Management Drs, some may prescribe opiates and some may not. But, he won't be able to find one by just calling and asking if they prescribe opiates. It also would be a good idea for him to Not ask for any particular med. He will also need copies of his medical records, or the new dr can get copies.

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MIHelp and BL, Thank You So Much!

As MIHelp says, "Unfortunately, the abusers have ruined it for the people that really do suffer from chronic pain". And, it seems physicians are too afraid to prescribe opiates, even to the people who need them, because the government harasses them.

MIHelp, we live between Lansing and Flint, near Perry. I am very relieved to hear you mention McClaren, because we have been with them for 20 years. They have all my husband's records, as does his PCP.

The thing that is so frightening is that his current PCP is the McClaren-affiliated doctor who took over for his retired McClaren-affiliated doctor - and she flatly refuses to help him by either prescribing him opiates or referring him to a pain specialist that might.. He has called other McClaren PCPs in the area, and all he has to do is say he is a pain patient (not even mention his meds), and they refuse to even see him, always saying, "They don't take new chronic pain patients".

You have been very, very helpful. My husband believes that finding a doctor who will prescribe him the medicines that give him quality of life will be "a long, arduous process", but your very helpful suggestions have given me direction and hope.

Thank You Again!

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Maybe he should think about changing PCP's and finding one who will give him a referral to Pain Management instead of one who will prescribe the pain meds. He needs to just leave out the part about being a pain patient. That will get you a "no" from a perspective PCP every time.

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If you are in Nashville or TN. check out the HOPE pain clinic in Murfreesboro, I have seen the doctor there for over 5 years. Because of the new state laws he had to open a pain clinic July, 1. 2013 and I followed him there, they also do patients from Kentucky, Virginia and the Carolinas. He is a very good DR. and will give you pain meds if you need them, he does not take insurance but will fill out the paper work for your insurance so they can reimburse you. He also has mail order pharmacies in case your local pharmacy will not fill your script... I live near Memphis and drive 3 hours every month because he is worth going to, he is caring and understanding, he is NOT a pill mill doctor, if you have pain and need meds he will help you. Hope this helps, Anton.

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Also, MIHelp - God Bless! It sounds as if you have been as badly injured as my husband and managed to keep going on living a productive life (just your making this post shows that!) - I have the utmost respect for that. Seeing how horrible the pain can be, I am just in awe of people like you. I'll put you in my prayers - I'm old-fashioned like that, LOL.... I had a good friend who was injured in Iraq, really damaged his cervical (neck) vertebrae, and the VA had him on 420 mg of morphine per day - which I thought was way beyond the maximum therapeutic dose (my husband takes 120) - but, he managed to function - he loved to sail, and he did, despite all that medication, and even got married. Then, he had a corrective surgery - he was so excited, couldn't stop talking about it. After he had the surgery, they weaned him off morphine, and would give him nothing at all, despite the fact that he said he felt better, but was still in great pain. They kept sending him to alternative pain clinics, physical therapy and all, but told him he "needed to adjust" and "give it a year" - which is exactly what he did - he gave it a year, and then committed suicide - left an ironic note about how hanging himself from the neck would finally fix it for good.

My husband says Bill Schuette is to blame for all this in Michigan - starting the persecution of physicians who prescribe opiates - I am just starting to learn why it is so hard to a physician who does, but it DOES seem doctors who prescribe opiates are targeted for audits and harassed a lot. When my daughter had her wisdom teeth out, the doctor wouldn't give her anything but prescription strength Tylenol, saying he was following "the new guidelines". It's so bad here - and the thing is, I went to school with Bill Schuette, he was the nicest, most decent kid - I didn't even realize he came from a super-rich family - and now, he is apparently my arch enemy. I need to educate myself, and go talk to him and the others who have blinders on, and will let the people in severe chronic pain - and their families - suffer unreasonably and cruelly in order to fight a war on drugs.

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This is interesting - I posted a detailed answer to the relevant replies here, and then received a message saying that *it has to be reviewed before posting*: it must contain too many *red-flag* references.

One part contained a special shout-out to MIHelp, with my admiration for living on positively & productively through what must be a most challenging life!

BL - my husband called and tried to set up an appointment with another McClaren-affiliated PCP in the area to have a lump in his under-arm checked - said he wasn't happy with his previous physician's replacement, and would like to change doctors (which was the case, he doesn't feel his new doctor takes him seriously).

He did NOT mention his previous history at all - they gave him an appointment, then called him back and said they'd reviewed his records and wouldn't take him because he is a chronic pain patient, and "they don't take new chronic pain patients" - that is the way it keeps going....he can't even get care from a PCP to address his other conditions, other than his "replacement" physician, who "inherited him" from his previous PCP - she will give him prescriptions for his blood-pressure and heart meds, but that is all. She is very dismissive of him - obviously wants him to go elsewhere - I think that is just the tact that McClaren PCP's are being instructed to take - do NOT take pain patients whom might require opiates, and get rid of any who do.

She has told him straight-out she refuses to treat him for pain (she is from India, and an excellent physician, but perhaps afraid to challenge guidelines - she is also my physician, and I am very happy with her treatment of me) - but my husband seems to "black-balled" in the area - as soon as the local McClaren PCP's get his medical records, they call and say they won't treat pain patients, for anything! He can't get a (very damaged) foot in the door, LOL - the minute a PCP sees his records, they cancel on him.

Thank Y'All, for your continuing help, here!

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Anton - thank you for posting that - I am sure there are many people in your area that will be most grateful. Also, I am thinking of moving to a state where my husband can get more compassionate health-care, and life will have less difficult winters than our Michigan winters do. I have friends in Tennessee, and am considering moving us there, for better quality of life. God Bless!

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If your via doctor doesn't believe in giving people that have been on pain meds vicodin,then you should ask him to send you to the pain clinic at the va . and if that doesn't work then ask him to put you on tramadol until you can find another doctor or get to the pain clinic . your doctor should be able to at least assist you in your pain management until something positive happens for you. Also tramadol is a narcotic so be careful and I hope you get feeling better real soon. Bless the veterans of our country. Rocket666

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It seems like they are using the insurance system to check him out. If he can find a Pain dr who will take cash, very few, if any will any longer, he may have to pay cash for the care. It will be expensive, but it may be his only alternative.

Are you completely sure that his old dr left for the reasons you were told ? The reason I ask is because sometimes drs say they are leaving/retiring/selling a practice, when the real reason is that they have been suspended from writting certain rxs and from practicing medicine

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Do you happen to frequent the Hampton VA HOSPITAL?the pain management doctor doesn't mind ripping away medication without detoxification no matter how long,even though you explain you're on a regime it makes no difference.the PC chief has stated that regulations are going to force all chronic pain patients off narcotic medicine.
It seems that antidepressants are the in drug being used ,either amylitriptalien? /cymbalta. Lyrica is the other drug they push.If your record shows adverse reactions ,they will still write f it ignoring what you tell them.
The VA HOSPITAL has become extremely apathetic when chronic pain is discussed.

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BL - his first doctor, whom got him on the program of morphine supplemented with norco has *Moved Up* in her career - she retired from her private practice, then later joined a very exclusive group, from what I understand. I have tried to get my husband to go back to her, and he has made appointments twice, but it takes $400.00 for a consultation, and then EVERYTHING paid out-of-pocket, as they don't take our insurance - she is now what he calls "a boutique physician", meaning she apparently only treats very rich people - so we cannot afford her. If you look up *Dr. Christine A. Blakeney, DO*, you'll see. I've tried to get him to go to her just to get a reference - it may be a way to go - but he tried to feel that out over the phone, and was discouraged. My husband and Dr Blakeney had a very good working relationship for 23 years, so I would think she would have some sympathy, but she is no longer *his* PCP, so she likely cannot give him a reference, and it takes $400.00 just to walk in the door - they charged us $200.00 just to make the appointment, with the other half due upon leaving. When I write this, it sounds like scam, but if you look her up, you will see, she has no restrictions, lots of accomplishments, and is highly respected - and, in a position to only treat very rich people now - which we are not.

When her replacement at the McClaren office refused to give him opiates, and told him to find "a pain specialist", he did end up going to a doctor whom was somewhat "seedy", as that was all he could find in a one-month window - and THAT DOCTOR ended up being charged with insurance fraud. However, her partner was a good, non-sanctioned, old-time physician, and after his partner was set upon by "The Feds", found himself under the microscope for picking up some of her more serious pain patients (including my husband), and decided to retire due to the harassment. He did leave my husband with a refill on his norco, but now Rite-Aid is refusing to fill that Dr.'s prescriptions OR transfer them for the refill, saying they don't transfer scheduled drugs. The other local pharmacy is filling that doctor's prescriptions, but Rite-Aid refuses to transfer it.

Thanks again for all your help. My husband is giving up, and is very depressed and hopeless. He saw this coming, so weaned himself off his drugs to avoid withdrawal, and saved what little he has left for emergency, but he is just not caring if he lives or dies right now, his whole life is trying to get comfortable enough to function during the day, then trying to sleep at night, and neither is happening.

I feel so helpless, listening to him just move restlessly, trying to get comfortable, and moan at night in genuine misery. He's turned really moody - all of it bad - so that the family is falling apart, no one wants to be around him.

Thanks again!

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Call the rite aid corporate line. I think it's 1-800-RITE-AID.

Speak to the pharmacy oversight manager. Say you want your refill TODAY!!

Unless he's on the DEA list and they can prove it, you'll get your meds.

Best of luck.

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Schedule II meds can't be transferred. Norco is still a Schedule III, until later this year. It is because of the dr that wrote it. If the dr in under disciplinary action in your state, even if they are just investigating him, the refill may not be able to be refilled.

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