Getting Prescriptions From 2 Different Doctors For Pain Meds But There Are Conditions (Page 6)

Well I just really need to know if what I am doing is considered doctor shopping. I fell at at department store and injured my knee. Now I have to go to the doctor the lawyer sent me to. He prescribes pain meds for me but the only thing he can treat is my knee. I started having back problems. My primary care doctor sent me to a different doctor and he also gives me meds. But the pharmacy said they would call the doctors and tell on me. So I went and ahead and told the doctors myself so that it would not look as bad. What do you think will happen to me? The pharmacy refused to give me back my prescription. Can they do that?

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Use your brain. This kinda stuff makes it harder for us all to get meds. One doctor who handles your pain.. one not two. They have a data base and I'm surprised that you have not been cut off yet.

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I have been in pain management for a year , I am prescribed oxycodone 30mg 4 times a day. I also see a phycologists for mental health meds. A week ago when I saw my pych doc I ask him to prescribe me subutex because I took one of my friends and it helped my depression. My question is I have a pain management appointment coming up in a few days . since subutex is not a narcotic will my pain management , or pharmacy reject my oxycodone because I got one script of subutex??

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It is used to treat opiate addiction, so your pain Dr may not want to rx you anymore pain meds.

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Subutex is a narcotic. Exactly why when I go to the Dr's With pain I am F***ed. People like you run around with scripts falling out of you'r pocket. One Dr. treats your pain not frickin two. Cut the bulls***. You can't take someones suboxone (Subutex) as a med for depression. Hope he cuts you off.

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You all make it hard for us that need our meds to function because your questions. The dea will eventually catch you all.

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Might be doctor shopping but it is definitely not illegal unless you are getting more than the legal amount of one drug.
Many people have several doctors - you aren't in trouble but your lawyer and his doctor might be

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Ed, I can frm my experience tell you, that even if is the same med, as long as only the pain management is doing the perscriptions, the new dr can write on the rx - This is an increase in the strengeth and you really should have no problems. I live in oregon, and they r extremly tough, yet I had no problem. I don't know the laws in your state, so I can't say it is the same here, the only problem, I see is some docs will ask for the unused amount you would hve last. I want you to know Ed, this only happened once, so please don't get worried. The best luck for you!!

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I saw my pain doctors nurse practitioner 5 weeks post op. She refused to lower my dosage of pain Meds gradually saying because I had surgery out of state if I wanted to have stronger pain Meds I would need to contact the pain management doctors office out of state and get them from him even though I was back in the state where I reside and seeing my regular pain management doctor. I don't believe she was telling me the truth because if I'm not in that state that doctor isn't going to give me the pain Meds if he can't see me. I was dropped by a huge amount and ended up suffering for thirty days. I have researched and can't find anywhere to verify what she told me was correct. So was she wrong and not telling me the truth. She implied that her hands were tied and she wasn't allowed to give me stronger Meds because I had surgery out of state.

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Also I need to add I wasn't asking for stronger Meds then what I was on. I just wanted to have them dropped slowly so I wouldn't have any set backs. They dropped me from 60mg of OxyContin and 24mg of dilaudid to 20mg of OxyContin and 12mg of dilaudid. It was dropped in one day.

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Hey comments! What did you pain management doctor do when you told you were taking Subutex for depression. I bet he dropped you pronto.

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It doesn't matter where you had surgery. It sounds like she thought you were receiving pain meds from the out of state Dr and also wanted them to prescribe pain meds in your home state. Which legally they could do but chose not to. You could have had copies of your medical records from the out of state drs sent to your home state drs. But.your home state drs aren't under any obligation to treat you like the out of state drs did or any.other Dr for that matter.

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Yes they have database so if you fill the prescription they will know

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Dilemma, so my mom had a major spinal surgery recently, she had her total knee replacement surgery postponed for this so the neurosurgeons only supply pain meds for 3 months at which time we are to procure either a pm doc or refer to our pcp. On july 9th we were given our last script from the neurosurgeon and held on to it. on august 14th we procured an PM doc and he started prescribing pain meds. i was worried and didnt understand how it worked so i asked the pharmacy and insurance if i could still have the july 9th script filled just in case moms pain was still out of control, they had no problems with it , different pain meds, but then we get a letter from pm doc saying they are dropping my mom for this. i want to go talk to him or his pa to explain the mistake, i have a copy of the script showing the date it was written and a letter for neurosurgeon stating that was last prescript he will write. my moms medical history and narcotics database are clean so cant they see this was an honest mistake? we never signed a contract but there are no pms near us and i feel mislead. do i have fighting chance of convincing them to take my mom back

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Once you went to the PM doctor he was to take over all your mother care as far her pain is concern. Why did you decide to fill the prescription when other meds were prescribe for her? Once you took the prescriptions from the PM that is the only medication that should be filled NO MATTER how long the other prescription was written. You can certainly talk to the PM doctor but I doubt he will let your mother back into his practice. Hopefully your mother will not suffer while you try to explain your mistake as you try to find a doctor who will prescribe opiate medication to your mom in the future. In todays world getting and filling pain medication from 2 different doctors without them both knowing about it is considered doctor shopping. You screwed up big time.

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You filling your Mom's rx will be viewed as a problem. Hopefully your Mom can get into see another Dr and only she needs to be filling her rxs.

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Unfortunately no...best of luck, and it wouldn't hurt to try though...do you by chance still have the other meds,or have they been taken...

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No it doesn't, it seems like her doctor here did not feel comfortable writing those doses. The doctor from the other state could have wrote her X amount of months worth, or post dated some prescriptions and sent her home with them. It could also be the way you asked. 60 mg of OC and 20mg hydromorphone is allot for months after post op surgery. Esp these days they cut everyone's meds down.

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The reason I filled it was because it was because I was afraid my mom wasn't going to make it until her next visit with the PM Doc and I asked the pharmacist prior to filling and he and the insurance didn't have a problem, we only spoke to the PM Doc once for 5 min and none of this was really discussed, I do have the entire bottle unused because I didn't realize that I could call him in 2 weeks instead month to make adjustments, do you think if I took the unused bottle to him along with a copy of the script showing when I actually received and beg to please don't penalize my mom for my mistake, I will stay out of the equation. he understood the extensive surgery she had and more to come and the doc at Stanford will fax over letter stating no longer prescribing after 3 months and date he wrote and gave script,and yes I know now that it doesn't matter when it was written, it matters when it was filled, why didn't someone stop me along the way, we use same pharmacy, same insurance but didn't seem to be a problem for them. and we were never told or signed any contract. plus I'm dealing with 27 other medications between my mom and dad and while these are no real excuses, couldn't one see how maybe the guy just f'd up and deserves another chance? I cant wrap my mind around the fact that I did this to my mother and because of me she's going to be in pain, it took me three months of faxing the referral, finding the docs personal email, being told by secretaries that he only does inj's. but I was never deterred by this, I truly would not have done this had I understood the ramifications. what do you think, should I stay away from blaming pharmacy or insurance? that sounds cowardly doesn't it? Also I feel like we were transitioning as this happened just after our very first visit to the pm doc, it wasn't like we had been going for months and knew it all , we were still in the adjustment phase and I didn't realize mom didn't have to wait a whole month to readjust. all I got is the truth and that's it. cant they look and see my moms history that this has never happened before? I have to go today and plead my case, where I live its him or drive 50 miles and my mom cant take that.

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My heart feels your angst. Take this from someone (me) who's "been around" as they say. Physically go to the Dr's office. Preferably first thing in the morning because they are always in the best mood first thing. Be as genuinely concerned, remorseful, worried etc as I can tell you really are. Don't call first, just be there at 8:00 or 9:00am, so you're the first person there. Be VERY nice yet assert yourself if necessary to the receptionist or nurse, whichever one greets you. Explain your issue in as little words as possible. Beg for another chance. I believe I read that y'all never signed a contract. If that's true, play dumb. You didn't know you weren't supposed to fill the second script. I also think I read that you have all the medication from the prescription got you in trouble. If so, take those with you so the Dr can see no one's taken them or sold them etc...Do this tomorrow. Get it over with asap. Please let us know how things work out! I'm with you in spirit!

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I can't even make out what you are trying to say! Did you fill 2 pain med scripts?? Simply tell your Dr. the situation. Bring to him the pills that you did not take and hand them over to him. Listen to the girl who gave you info on 8/13. You can't fill scripts from 2 different docs for pain meds ever. They are really cracking down on that. It's not you'r fault though. Like she said...Go in the AM and be the first on in the office. Sell your Dr your story.

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