Finding Pain Doctor In Pittsburgh Pa

I need 2 find a pain doctor that will write opiates.

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Have u found what u r looking for? If so, that's what i am looking for too. I work and cant be falling out on the job. And the opiates help get the pain away.

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This may be difficult in the Pittsburgh area, most of the doctors I am aware of, from when I lived near there, preferred other forms of treatment and didn't provide pain management with opiate medications.

I can provide the contact information for some that are listed in the Pittsburgh area, so you can call and see what types of treatments they provide.

Allegheny General Hospital Pain Management Center 412-681-5301

UPMC Pain Management 412-784-5119

Center for Pain Relief 724-942-5188

Cherry Tree Pain Clinic PC 724-437-4676

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Can you please post back if you have any success with any of these?

In the meantime, I'll keep researching to see if I can find any others.

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I GOT IN PAIN MANG BUT THEY WANT YOU TO GET ALL THESE INJECTIONS WITH YOUR PAIN MEDS IM NOT INTO ALL THAT SO HERE I AM AGAIN LOOKING IF SOME ONE CAN HELP THX GINA.....

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IVE BEEN ON HYDROCODE FOR OVER TO YEARS AND MY PHYCITRIST IS NO LONGER ALOUD TO PERSCRIBE THEM AND IM LOOKING FOR A NEW DOCTOR TO TAKE MY CASE OPIATES ARE THE ONLY THING THAT GIVES ME ANY RELIEVE. IVE TRIED EVERYTHING NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK PLEASE HELP ME

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I have been getting treated for pain for a number of years now and have found success with Advanced Pain Medicine. Their # is 724-933-0300 and they have about 9 locations throughout Pittsburgh. You might give them a call and set up an appt. Hope this helps.

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"Advanced Pain Medicine" treated me like crap. I go to John P. Murtha Pain Center in Johnstown. Its a drive but they only see you 2 times a year plus if they do a screening or pill count.. You can talk to the nurses to get the doc to change meds if you need to.

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Did u ever find a doctor?

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What pain are you treated for? I have fibromyalgia, arthritis, 2 herniated chronic fatigue syndrome, discs, and tear in my hip. Have tried all there mental drugs , muscle relaxers, chiropractors, massage, nuerotin injections, tramadol , physical therapy etc. nothing works but percoset. No one will give it to me. I can hardly move anymore. I own 2 businesses and have 3 kids. I have no quality of life anymore. I don't care if there addictive. Rather be out of pain enjoy my life and addicted then live like this. IM 43 & can decide what I need. Who are they to play God with medications. If they were hit by a car while walking im sure they'd be On pain meds. IM so sick of being treated like s*** cause im in pain and need pain pills. I would much rather not have the pain then take pills for ever. They don't make me high. Please help need a doctor that gets it. I have had mris and scans plus xrays. I heard there's pain advocates and legally your entitled to have a quality of life. IM going to research let you know.

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I am a 58 year old woman from the Erie area looking for a doctor who will perscribe me pain management medication, as I have been on them for over 20 years and have recently had the rug pulled out from under me by my local doctors. Does anyone know a clinic or doctor in the Pittsburgh area who will allow me to continue with my normal medications, and not give me the shot, as I have also had them for years and they have been mostly ineffective. Please help! I am desperate!

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Are you people stupid? Dont you KNOW the DEA monitors these sites and even pretends to be "patients" LOOKING for DRs to BUST..NO smart person is going to give up their DR on the internet..wise up

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when you have no other options, then what do you do

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My Pitts Burgh Doctor is a such organization which provides Healthcare staff, medical care staff and best doctors in Pittsburgh. We provide the top health care services in Pittsburgh.

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My name is John and I suggest Dr CHERYL BERNSTEIN at UPMC Center Commons, 5150 Centre Ave. SUITE 400. 412-665-8030 She wrote 120 percocet 10/325s first visit. She just has to receive your medical records first. You WILL be asked for urine and you will have to come in every month before you are due to run out of meds for a pill count. If you can handle that you're in like Flint. Good luck. {edited for privacy}

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I joined Eachel's list and listed Drs with 5 stars. Its 67% accurate. Makes it a breeze

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When you lift heavy barbells for 25 years in order to compete with large human beings you can injure yourself as I did...... numerous failed spine surgeries/rude little doc's who think that their lives go on forever. I cannot help you... I am moving West.Perhaps the constant cloud cover in Pgh.12 months a year has created the aforementioned.

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Dr CHERYL BERNSTEIN is an A** I saw her twice and she treated me like dirt and gave me no reason. The last time she had all the docs and trainees in and acted all professional. Asked me all the correct question efc. And after like an hour said well I'm not going to treat you. And don't even bother paying your copay. It was like she was providing a teachable moment for her staff. You should have seen the faces of the staff lile secretaries ... they felt terrible for me. I cannot believe anyone would suggest her. I guess if she gives you what you need you think she would be great for others. YOU ARE VVERY VERY WRONG!! My PCP thpought she woudl see me (the 2ndtime) because I had a refefrecnce form her. My origonal PCP had been arrested.

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UPMC PAIN MANAGEMENT IS A F***ING JOKE!!! do not waste your time or money, they will give u ibuprofen and a electro shock machine and charge u 200$ for it when they are supposed to give you a 30 free trial for it and then u can return it. well i waste $500 going there n that damn machine they tried to bill me for only made my back n shoulder worse n more pain and caused more muscle spasms. they are a joke seriously don't waste your time

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i feel you bro, i am the same exact way kept I'm 25 and a us army infantry combat veteran, i get denied at the VA even tho i did my time and spent 11 months in afgahnistan where i was blown up and shot numerous times luckily my plates saved my life, and the VA tells me I'm not eligible until i get my service connected disability and then approved but that could be up to 2 years from now. and everywhere i have tried even UPMC pain management has all been a waste of time, and like you nothing works for me anymore nor ever has other than percocet and oxycodone and Opanas, i can't stand to live anymore and is to the point where i don't want to live anymore cuz i can't take this pain and the ptsd n nightmares all in one from my service, I'm 25 and have the body of a 90 year old, 2 blown out knees that are gonna need replaced both of them in 5-10 years b4 I'm 35, my mid/lower back is just pain all day everyday, my right shoulder is torn n scapula is dislocated, my neck has 5 bulging disc n aren't aligned properly and that plays into my shoulder n moving my neck just rips into my shoulder n causes even more pain in my shoulder and neck on top of the chronic starting pain in each. so FML. so far all i have heard of that is legit is John P. Murtha Pain Center in johnstown, I'm about to call them and see what the deal is. if you hear anything or get any help please let me know and send me an email {edited for privacy} and if you give me your contact email i will do the same for you if i find anything out and have any success in find a good pain doctor that will help us in our situations.

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Liar!!!!

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It's over now. They have these labels out here: OPIOID CRISIS AND EPIDEMIC!!! They have ruined it for everyone. It's very sad to say. Good luck everyone.

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Good luck. No one in Pittsburgh will prescribe anything. I have the same issues as U and have been to many drs but all they want to do is the same procedures over and over with no result

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Can anyone recommend somewhere to go for pain management in the Pittsburgh pa area? I have had 8 fusions. I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, sciatica, psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, failed back syndrome, two more herniations of my back and 10 total back surgeries. I'm in a lot of pain. I was on oxymorphone 30 milligrams three times a day + oxycodone 30 mg 4 times a day. I asked my neurosurgeon if he could drop me down and find me a different doctor whatever. He did and the doctor wouldn't stop dropping me. He told me I'd be able to go back to work but I haven't worked for 10 years. I've been disabled. I've seen 6 ime doctors and none of them told me I could work ever again. I found a new doctor but the problem is, is they're only writing me oxymorphone 20 mg twice a day and Percocet 10 / 325 twice a day so I have nothing for breakthrough and I'm missing one of those long-acting meds and I'm hurting for about 8 hours to 12 hours a day. I have two preteens and have been dealing with this for over 2 years. I really need some help. I don't want to miss any more time than what I have with my children. I'm a father who loves his kids and really just want to be a part of their life and feel somewhat at least as close to normal as I can. Thank you so very much if you could help me {edited for privacy}. I appreciate it if you would actually read this and even if you can't help and just try to give me a direction it would be great. Thank you again.

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I worked in healthcare for several decades--even in an excellent inpatient pain mgmt program, which I thought was enough to protect myself from being injured by a local clinic in Salem, OR. I had been warned that I couldn't get safe care in the town and would need to drive to Portland, 50 miles away, which wasn't feasible, due to my shoulder injuries and dogs. That clinic--with the collusion of a local orthopedic surgeon specializing in shoulders--dissolved much of my cartilage and damaged the subacromial nerves. The condition is known to be severely painful--the first research article I could access began with 'this devastating, life-altering' etc. I went on to KP (despite warnings), and, although my PCP was the excellent, the orthopedist was incompetent and dishonest (he was let go by KP and is practicing in WA, until that practice catches on...) and KP's pain management in Portland absurd.

My advice would be to avoid OR--serious abuse issues, particularly methadone and minimal healthcare resources. WA had been putting everyone possible on methadone, which provided the majority of the fatalities from overdose that are used to discredit opioids--but targeting oxycodone, not methadone. (Methadone is far more dangerous.) it does have decent healthcare, and I think is much better than Pittsburgh, but not a good place for pain control.

I moved from CA gen years ago, so I can't speak for it now, but I think it's by far the best of these three....

I recently moved back to Pittsburgh, where I lived forty years ago, under the misunderstanding that I might get better care, especially since some of the best research on my condition had been done at UPMC (although that orthopedist is now at Stanford). I spent half my savings on this move--and have very little left--and, after arriving, had a terrible time just getting treated for a nasty respiratory infection. Being repetitively sick slowed my search for pain treatment down to the point where I have a couple of days of meds left and the pain is so horrific that I will not survive without treatment. The leading specialist said that even with surgery the damage is so bad I'll be on opiates for life--not what I hoped to hear. (Everyone with this had previously been highly physically active and almost everyone is a young athlete who had a post-op pain pump.)

A certain percentage of patients, given certain not yet clearly defined variables (as in the litigation is now heading towards 'us' (MDs), let's shut down the research...) develop severe damage from administration of large volumes of local anesthetics in joints, the same ones used with cortisone and trigger point injections. The damage takes time--3 to 12 months--as the cartilage cells slowly die off. As painful as injections are without an anesthetic, those few MDs aware of the research are advising others to avoid any non-essential use.

Right now I am absolutely terrified, as I had no idea of the difficulty of getting opioids treatment in Pittsburgh-- nor the lag time of having to be seen by a pain mgmt center before getting treated. In OR--and likely still in CA--a PCP could cover you until the appt with the center--especially given the wait time.

I had almost moved back to San Diego, where the MDs I had worked with had respect for me--which seems in short supply here. I am on this site out of desperation and will come back if any of the suggestions prove worthwhile or if I find good care elsewhere. If I can't get treatment here tomorrow I'm going to try to fly back to the West coast to see if I can get coverage to enable a move to somewhere where I can get surgery, which the specialist said would be an improvement--and effective pain mgmt. (I used to wish they would just remove my arms and shoulders, if that would stop the pain, but that's not likely....I wish I was joking.) Once the meds run out I won't be able to move--I slept for six or seven hours last Tuesday (always wake up by four) out of a dream that I was being burned alive and was crying uncontrollably from the pain. When I woke up the only change was that I was experiencing the same thing awake, I had been physically crying while asleep. I was totally aware I could not handle the pain without meds.

(I have to get busy and it's difficult to type, but I will try to come back to describe the money interests behind the anti-opiate war right now. I had an MBA before getting an RN and had interviewed for headquarters marketing at top pharmaceutical firms, back in 1980. (I have a conscience and decided to change fields, just as healthcare was changing to being almost exclusively devoted to profit, aargh.) Opiates are cheap and generic and Eli Lilly, for one, has a very damaging drug yet it's trying to get through the FDA whose major competition is oxycodone. Lilly is spending millions to influence top decision-makers, even newly sponsoring NPR, who now presents totally biased anti-opiate rants by persons like Jeb Bush--whose daughter OD'd on oxy, xanax (?) and alcohol. No anti-Xanax or anti-alcohol rants, how strange...

If anyone has more current information on Pittsburgh, it might be a lifesaver for some of us.

PS I would recommend avoiding South Hills Pain and Rehab. The guy I saw--'Mik' (long Russian name) was the most incompetent, nasty pow I've ever encountered--and I've worked with hundreds over the years, due to a lot of contract work and the type of work I did. Zero knowledge of medicine or medications but thinks he's king of the world. Since my condition is rare and relatively new, most doc's are unaware of it, but this guy stated--and he was dead serious--that he knew more than all the orthopedists in the US. He stated he had been an orthopedic surgeon in Russia--which was apparently a long time ago. He wears a surgical cap in the office, with zero hygienic use, in lieu of a Napoleonic hat--which I guess would not be in keeping with his heritage, albeit appropriate. The one-star reviews are absolutely true to my own experience, but he was the only person available, so I took a chance. If you need help, he may be very demoralizing.

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Dont bother with her. My dr sent me to her and I find her rude, snide and uncaring. I have done everything she has asked of me and she refuses to order me anything I have several types of pain and some of it opioids wont touch but they help other kinds I know the difference I have a small statch that im about to overdose on just to get this behind me. Why are they forcing me to live like this? I would rather have a shorter life and live in some comfort than a long miserable one that I'm going to have to bring to an end anyway

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If you could please help me out with the doctor I've been in chronic pain for over 15 years had back surgery in 2011 my doctor suddenly just quit or got fired from where he worked and since then I have been looking for a doctor for the past year I'm in constant pain and I know what it's like to not be able to function because of the severity of the chronic pain nobody that has chronic pain issues can understand what it is like to live this kind of Life how depressing it becomes how angry you become because you're so miserable because you're in pain all the time I'm tired of being miserable I'm tired of being in pain all I want is some relief and these doctors are afraid to write anything even if it's a Vicodin which you don't even hear those anymore so if anyone can help me with a doctor in the Pittsburgh area I would gratefully appreciated

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I need a doctor in Pittsburgh to prescribe my high doses of narcotic pain medication. I have MANY painful issues including lupus, etc. 9 years on the same meds now they want me at a pain clinic. Lowering my meds considerably was ok until the last change; now bedridden and they want to keep lowering them. I have had nurses by my side for 5 years who are upset at my deterioration. I need help. {edited for privacy}

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THANK YOU FOR THE NUMBERS I AM SICK TO DEATH OF DRS WHO COW TOW IN FEAR OF THEIR LICENSE BEING YANKED FOR GIVING OPIOIDS. SICK SICK SICK OF IT AND BEING TREATED LIKE A COMMON CRIMINALBECAUSE YOU NEDD HELP WITH TRUE PAIN GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE SEEKING RELIEF WITH ME I HAVE NONE YET AND IVE BEEN LOOKING FRO 4 YRS NOW

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I CAN NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE!!! EVERY WWORD YOU SAID I HAVE SCREAMED AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! WALKED OUT ON TWO SO CALLED "PAIN MGT. DOCS AND SAID I WAS NOT ON TRIAL NOR A CRIMINAL AND WONT BE TREATED LIKE ONE! IM STILL LOOKING STILL IN PAIN AND STILL HATE MY LIFE THE WAY IT IS FROM PITTS AREA IF ANYONE CAN HELP

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thank you for this number an i am praying when i call it the drs there are not like the 3 ive been to who are deathly afraid or adverse to prescribing pain meds. i'm in constant pain and have very little quality of life without some form of opioid and muscle relaxant. i feel depressed because of it and do almost nothing with friends or outside of my home. i will call this number tomorrow. hope there is one close enough for me to get to cuz idon't even drive anymore due to my disability

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