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My husband has a history of back pain since 1985. He has had 3 back surgeries, epidural injections and 2 spinal column stimulator implants. His last surgery in 2006 was quite successful. He was on 180 mg of Avinza and percocet for breakthrough pain. He has gradually reduced his medication to 30 mg twice daily of morphine sulphate and has maintained this dosage for 2 years. We have been patients of this primary care group for 25 years. The doctor that we both had been patients of retired, so we now see another MD from the same group. I see a different MD from this group than my husband. The reason being that I do not care for this D.O. that my husband sees. He has been seeing him for approx a year. He had always been given a prescription for a 3 months supply. About 6 months ago the D.O. started to write my husbands morphine sulfate for a month at a time and would given him 3 prescriptions with a notation on each script "do not fill until" with a date for each month. When he went the other day for his 3 month visit he was told he had to see him each month and would be written a prescription for his morphine sulfate each month. This wouldn't be a problem but we do no longer have health insurance and have to pay out of pocket for doctor visits and prescriptions. Is this a normal process or should he start seeing a different doctor altogether? We live in Florida.

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I have to take a U/A every now and then to see if I am taking my medication or not taking them and I never know when they will ask for one. Things are getting worse and I noticed that my pain meds don't work like they use to. They are not as strong as they were. I am on Norco 10/325 and also Morphine Sulfate 30 mg 2x a day. If it wasn't for the Morphine the Norco would be like taking nothing. Something needs to change. It has changed for the worse. We who are in pain have to suffer for the ones who abused it.

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Things are only getting worse. I have never been keen on the monthly prescription but then my doctor didn't charge me an office visit to get the script. That's about to change and there's going to be U/A's (which is how they know that you are taking your pills and not selling them on the street) and now I have to provide my pills to the doctor to count before getting a new script. Yes, this is insanity and over-regulation which all began because the US Government didn't want to be caught holding the bag for the cheap opiates on the streets coming back from Afghanistan on a daily basis (that's why it's cheap) and who pats down the military getting off transport planes? No one.

And the next thing that's coming is a reduction in what they are giving you strength wise. I don't remember the exact mg per day but there's a limit that the government doesn't want anyone taking more than.

And finally no bennies with Opioids. I've already had my benzodiazepines taken away and replaced with alternatives as of today because they're suddenly concerned for my health although I've been taking this combination for over 20 years now.

And I'm sure we won't stop until everyone with pain issues is suffering. There's something about giving people that have pain enough relief that they can live normally. There's this weird thinking that if you suffer from pain and the medication that they give you makes you feel like you don't have pain then you must be getting too much.

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As per usual, Verwon is correct. I might just add that if you are still taking Percocet for breakthrough, you would likely eventually be limited to about 30mgs Percocet per day on top of the 60mgs of morphine.

Dr. Tim

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I still have to see my doctor every 3 months, but I can pick up my prescription every month for a 30 day prescription.

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My husband is on morphine and methadone for long term pain due to a work related injury. After getting his prescriptions this morning, he can't get a pharmacy to fill them! Does anyone have a suggestion as to where to go in Lee County, Florida, preferably Cape Coral area.

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No, that is completely normal. As a matter of fact, the doctor was breaking the law before by giving him more than one prescription, at a time, and not making him come in for a visit each month.

The way it is supposed to work with these strictly controlled narcotics is you are supposed to see your doctor each month and are supposed to be given no more than a one month's supply of each prescription. They are actually not allowed to give refills or post-dated prescriptions.

Someone most likely complained, either from a pharmacy, or from the government, since all such prescriptions are monitored and the doctor has been warned that they must discontinue such practices, or risk losing their license to practice medicine.


You can learn more Morphine details here.

I'm sorry, I do understand what a burden it is to pay for the appointments and prescriptions. I don't have insurance coverage myself, so I know how expensive it can get.

Have you looked into seeing if there is any type of assistance in Florida that you qualify for?

Even a discount prescription program would help.

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