Doctors Willing To Prescribe Pain Medication (Page 66)

Can you tell me about any doctors who can prescribe Vicodin

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It is frustrating Marivan, I feel for you, my state too changed the laws last July 1, 2013. Thankfully my PCP who I have been seeing for the last 5 years opened a pain clinic because he had to comply with the new state law and DEA guidelines.. Even though I was an established patient I had to start over with drug panels, mug shot, fingerprints, background check, they treat you like a would be criminal than an actual patient. Sadly we have to play the game until we get the power back, I would recommend you start with your state legislators, they make the laws. Your state has given in to the federal government, you need to get people like you to address your state legislators, there are power in numbers, start a FB page or a website for people in your state who have legitimate pain. It will be tough because it sounds like your state legislators have already thrown in the towel so you have to organize enough people to vote these bozos out of office and vote in people who are compassionate towards pain patients and their suffering. Remember, the DEA and federal law is one thing but the state and the people of that state can supercede them, look at all the medical marijuana dispensaries, there are now 22 states that allow medical marijuana and the good people of Colorado and their legislators allow recreational marijuana which is still illegal according to the feds and the DEA. You can stay and fight or move to another state, not many options here,stay or move... Good luck to you...

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what dr do u see

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My Dr just passed away unexpected, although I am saddened by his death, It has left me in a bad position. I am looking for someone with compassion, and that is understanding. If you know of someone, please let me know. Thanks

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Thank you, Anton, for your kind reply. This is why I posted those two sites, for everyone to see and go to. I am hoping people, in the state of Arizona will see it and sign up for it. Lord knows there are many suffering here, too. I am a member of several chronic pain sites and hopefully, when I posted these sites, on each one, then perhaps that will help all of us, no matter what state we are in. I am doing my best, in my state, but the pain is so intense for me, it is hard to sit and do anything, let alone walk, stand and sit. This is why I take only a short time to post these links.

I can't move, I live in an old trailer, that needs a lot of work, before I can even think of renting it out, let alone sell it. I am low income, trying to support my blind & destitute ex-husband, with my very small disability income. I can barely afford the food from the dollar store, pay my mortgage and the utilities. I am having a hard time paying all the co-pays from the doctors. So, I'm stuck, for now. But, I keep a positive mind, plugging along, everyday and hopefully, when I see a new doctor, after she gets her new office organized, in July, perhaps she will help me.

Anyway, thank you for your kind thoughts and suggestions.

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I feel for you and understand, it really is sad that one option is to move because your state has given in to the feds, atleast on this issue... I thought I read somewhere that Arizona does stand up to the federal gov. on other issues, wasn't the governor of Arizona the one that had a run in with Obama? Trying to remember if sheriff Aparo is from AZ. as well, the one that has chain gangs and makes the prisoner wear pink... I am trying in my state too before it gets that bad, I was born and raised in Miami Fl. but moved to Tennessee about 30 years ago, Florida is bad too because of the pill mills that brought all the attention. On this site there is another page about not being able to fill pain meds in central Fl. Tampa, Brandon, St. Pete area because pharmacies will not fill the scripts. The doctors will write them but no pharmacy will fill them, and if they go a county or two over those pharmacies get suspicious so people are having to go mail order from other states and that is another issue altogether, it really is sad. Since moving is not an option start a FB account, I started 410 pain, (for Tennessee} about a month ago and it has grown. If you get enough people from AZ. to join and send a copy to your governor and your state reps, both House and Senate. Tell them your plight and encourage others to send in theirs too, hopefully they will get the message. They drug companies have a lot of pull too, they want their meds being available, they too are on your side, maybe see if you can get one of them to support you as well. Power in numbers, good luck to you, we have to start somewhere, right?

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Hello and thank you for your kind reply. I don't know if the governor, you are writing about it still in office. My aunt, in-law, was a governor, of this state, once, but that was years ago, and I am certain she's passed away, by now. It would have been nice if she had children who followed in her foot steps, but she was single, all her life. Darn it.
I don't know of the sheriff, you write about, but the prisoners are wearing orange, now, so I wonder if he is still around. If he is, I will google his name, if you think he will be on our side.
I haven't written that petition, yet, trying to figure out what exactly to say, since I am not a very good author, of anything I write. Lol! But, I am certainly going to try, if no one will write my petition for me. I want it to be very heartfelt, but professional, as well, so when the government officials and pharmacy companies, read it, they will sign it, along with our other Chronic Pain patients. Thank you for the idea about sending it to these manufacturers, I didn't think of that, so I will be sure to try and get them to sign too. I am also going to send one to the FDA, for they were going to take the Opana ER, off the market, but then decided it was still okay to produce it and sell it. I found this information on the FDA website. So, you can see, I am going every where to find as much info as I can and support.
I truly appreciate your kind reply and also from others. I am hoping, if we all stand strong, shoulder to shoulder, against these people, who make decisions on wrong information, without any suffering or medical training, themselves, then we might win this battle. Just because we don't have cancer, doesn't mean that we are suffering so much less. Our suffering also causes other things happening in our bodies, to make us suffer, even more and some people, will suffer, if not alread, mentally, perhaps ending their lives, if there is no hope.
So, again thank you, for your kind thoughts and suggestions, I will do a petition, hopefully written well and send it to every politician I know and the medicine manufacturers and on websites, for us all to sign. I will, perhaps, make a website or blog, posting it too, if my pain and time allows. For I am having more bad days than good, anymore.

May GOD bless you and everyone who is on this site and suffering....

Always!

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Casey, Thanks for letting me know.

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

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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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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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