Getting Prescriptions From 2 Different Doctors For Pain Meds But There Are Conditions (Page 27) (Top voted first)

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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Sgtcholo , just because the outside dr prescribed the pain med does not mean that you had to take it or get it filled. If you got the pain meds filled from VA right before and/or after you got the pain meds from the outside dr filled, you didn't forget about the VA meds, obviously. All drs can see what meds you have filled by going to your states Prescription Monitoring Program database. Did you list the pain meds that you are getting from VA on the paperwork or tell the dr at the outside drs office about the pain meds you get every month from VA? If you didn't get pain meds from VA filled, you might get someone to believe that you forgot about them. But, if you did get them filled, it is a red flag for abuse/addiction.

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It's only Dr. Shopping ifnu are illigally doing itnif its for dif reasons u can get it bc I went to the dentist n he wrote me than the hospital n they wrote em

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Yes they can. State law is you can only get meds from 1 doctor what you did is illegal & the 2nd doctor should have seen your name pop up in the DEA web page. I'm on pain management 1 dr only. Every dr I see I give a list of meds I'm on. What you did is one if the reasons the DEA is all over people. You only add to the difficulty for people like myself with chronic pain. My spine is fused on 3 levels. Btw the lawyer cannot tell you who to see. Get your own lawyer. Their lawyer is lying your entitled to see & use your own doctor.

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My sisters husband has a primary care doc in which he gets pain scrips blood pressure meds, ect. He has had knee replacement surgery on both knees. He also goes to the VA clinic where I have scene him with methadone, oxycodone, and now he is taking steroids,as well as testosterone shots from the VA. He gets a 3 month supply from the VA. He has become something or someone I do not know anymore. I am afraid of him. I called his primary care doc. To try to reach out for help all he told me was I can't do anything about what he is getting from the VA. What should I do?

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What should I do if i've been actively dr. shopping for the past 3 to 4 yearsin Philadelphia. should I get a lawyer before I get caught. I never had a criminal record

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If I pay cash is it illegal to go to two different doctor for pain meds

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BL and Victor very interesting combination. Victor comes back to post after a physician and a nurse but both the physician and nurse assess damage.

What damage did we assess?

1. That someone on pain management has a family member who is doctor hopping meaning requesting more pain management medications from more than one of her physicians. This tendency with over compensation and excuses as well as asking questions to understand "what did I do wrong" lead to a consensus medically of a family member interfering with patient care, and potential diversion.

2. Then we have a poster who has posted nonstop negative posts on Medicaid recipients in the State of Louisiana. Not at all supportive but condescending. When he or she gets called on it NOW they determine they will degrade (if they can because they would not have the balls to do so in person) that their game is up they have been found out.

Resources are available but a professional nurse doing pain support for over 20 years and a nurse for longer as well as a published scholarly researcher and for both of you big mouths (no better word to call people who insult without cause when given medical information they cannot tolerate because it involves their own ACTIONS to harm in the real world and people on this site) rectifies and gives support well BL cannot take it.

BL does not give any physician names BL is here to degrade anyone on this site because in the real world BL does not have a pain specialist and likely there is a medical reason for this. The information BL gives is not appropriate at all. Further when I pick a physician name I have sites where only health care professionals go to check credentials and also will know if they are a physician that I know professionally. I have an entire list of specialists that I personally have referred to and many do die or get out of this business for the malpractice rates and unfair medical treatment by government agencies make it too high a risk.

The signs are obvious and I'm sure many who are not professionals picked this up. Do you know how many people who do these actions end up in federal prison? Many do they get caught. Further the victims are the ones in pain because people NOT in pain are overdosing and leading to these rules that are now inflicting torture on those legitimate and in pain.

BL you should get some compassion or not say a thing. Didn't your mother ever say to you "say something nice or don't open your mouth." Well if she did not I am telling you now that what you say and do here is stupid and childish and is causing those desperate and in need to NOT post here.

I will leave it at that and hope you two (peas in a pod) get the answer now. As for Jenifer she is just alittle bullet pulled in for the ride and in my opinion both of you have just fallen off the horse; even an animal would not take the treatment you two dole out. I can say this MOST of us can sleep at night because MOST of us do not do people this way and Victor your MOTHER.

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Jenifer what mental hospital are you talking about? What did you read it was not about me. I am a published scholarly researcher and lawyers have used my research which is psychiatric in tort trials to prevent forced neuroleptic depot injections.

I am sure it will take you awhile to figure that out. I am a suit and tie professional for your information and regulatory expert. I do hospitals and nursing homes that are shut down; I get court orders on family members who interfere in treatment and get them a "POA" to replace that family when abuse is uncovered.

I'm a professional witness for physicians.

Other then that I need a pain specialist I've had the best and will settle for one with a M.D.

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