Help Finding A Pain Management Doctor In Wa State That Prescribes Meds (Page 5)

I need help with finding a pain management dr. that prescribes pain meds in the bellevue wa area or as close as possibe am willing to drive if necessary. Please it's almost impossible to find. I have been in pain since 2002 please any leeds greatly appreciated.

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Hi, Jason I was told by my pain mgmt Dr, in Federal Way that Dr. John Hatheway in Spokane is a very good pain doctor. Good luck to you

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The Seattle Pain Center has offices everywhere! Seattle, Tacoma, Renton and more if I'm right. I know they just opened one in Poulsbo. Here is the website:

seattlepaincenters.com

However stay away from Dr. Kuhatrich. First name Ben or Beno (he goes by both). He is not sympathetic. He looks down on people who are in pain and he thinks he knows it all. His nose is always in the air, he is rude, inconsiderate and stuck up. He used to be with the Seattle Pain Center and now works with the doctors clinic throughout the kids up area! The doctors clinic itself is great for regular family medicine, not for pain though! Like I said stay away from that guy, he is a piece of work!

Sorry my reply is so late, I'm thinking probably a few years but if anybody does find a doctor please let me know. I'm in the Tacoma area and I need a new doctor because of the guy I told you about!

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Cindy, I am so sorry you are hurting so badly. I can relate to some of your issues. I have chronic back pain from a car accident (not my fault) and since then I've been going through doctors who I usually have to fire because they don't care and are either drug pushers (endless prescriptions for stuff that doesn't help) or they are really addiction specialists and think everyone is out to trick them to get their "fix." Fortunately, an addiction specialist gave me suboxone to help me get off of methadone, which I hated anyway, and I discovered that suboxone (buprenorphine) works better for my pain than all the other hardcore opiates I had ever tried. Now I've fired several doctors for being selfish, rude and basically unscientific and careless but I still need to find a good pain management doc to get suboxone. It's a damn nightmare. I know what you're talking about when it comes to living in agony and almost wishing you were dead. Keep fighting!

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You mean Dr. Kuharich in Kitsap county? I agree, he is a poor doctor. I had him do a rhizotomy on me and he completely missed the location he should have done because he (and my pain doctor) both failed to do the smallest amount of exploration work on my back to find the correct location to do the procedure. They simply don't care. Dr. Kuharich spent more time checking out his young pretty nurses than helping me with my pain issue. He is a dismal failure. I really don't understand how these people get jobs in medicine.

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Hello, I have had 10 years of chronic back pain which started from a car accident. I have tried many different treatments and drugs but have found little that actually helps. I tried methadone for a long time but it had unpleasant side-effects and I eventually stopped taking it. I discovered, quite by accident, that suboxone works better for my pain than all those high-powered opiates. However, finding a doctor who can prescribe suboxone who isn't a one-track-mind addiction specialist is very hard. Doctors have disappointed me over and over again. I need respect and compassion as well as a scientific approach. Is that too much to ask? Someone at an ER suggested a Dr. Khan in Tacoma but his web reviews show him to be as bad or worse than the doctors I've fired. Suffering in pain is evil. Doctors need to understand not everyone is a lying addict who just wants to feel high. Some of us are just people in pain who need respect and compassion. Why the hell is suboxone so hard to get? Every doctor out there can prescribe heavy narcotics, why not something mild like suboxone? I suspect a greedy pharma company.

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Yes we are all
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Washington State. Eastern but. Do not care where. I am looking desperately for pain management doc. Whom prescribes. I have medicare. I am on disability and have a sever pain and titanium in my back. I have not has my meds and have resorted to getting on the street. Not Good! I have a trail of pain issues and last doc of 12 years. Help

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Are you still able to recommend Dr's that can help with chronic back pain? I have DJD and have had back issues since I was 12 years old.

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Stephanie, REPLY TO POST #20

I understand this is an older post but on the outside chance you were still active on these forums.As an outreach provider for methadone maintence protocol with anxiety agents in New Jersey I may be of assistance.Kindly post back if interested in advancing a dialogue.
Warmest Regards,
Kenie.

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It's been a year now of inadequate pain control by a doc who doesn't like unhappy complaining patients. I've fallen from fainting from bolts of pain and now have 5 new fractures in my neck, damage to my spinal fusion, and 3 weeks ago 2 new fractures of vertebrae just above my fusion. These falls occurred while on my way to the bathroom, 7 new fractures total from compression compression, ruptured disks, to complete breaks. My reconstructed pelvis with all its hardware is breaking free and I have loose and broken screws, wire and the plate that connects my fusion to my pelvis is loose and has moved up on the right side by 1 inch. I've also damaged my fake shoulder hardware and it needs replaced. I was just told I need immediate surgery to redo all of it, if it can be redone that is. There is no one in the state of WA who is qualified. I need a major medical center, maybe Houston, TX. I've spent the last year in bed, feeling tortured. Like a wild animal in a cage. If I'm not all happy and fine at my apps he cuts my meds by 1/3 and treats me like a drug addiction. I can't stand straight, or walk at all without a walker, I have MRIs and every diagnostic to prove I was crushed in an auto wreck, fail to stay dead and was put back together again. 1 million dollars worth of repair. I have extensive nerve damage and proof of that, yet this doc has me on the minimum dose. I can't even find another doctor because that's grounds for him to kick me out. It's called "doctor shopping" for heavens sake. Now I've become so weak from being confined to my bed my will is going. I just want to get up and out and be able to sit and walk without searing pain. A trip to WalMart sounds like an exotic adventure. How did I end up with this doc? Washington state enacted all CDC suggestions and I was abandoned by my previous doc immediately after. He closed up shop and left several of his patients to fend for themselves. Many pain clinics have closed here because they aren't allowed to treat their patients. Chronic pain suicides have skyrocketed. I want to move but I can't even get up enough to do it and I have no one to help. I've looked for one REAL pain doc here in WA who could help me get out of here but they are all afraid. The specialists I've been referred to have all told me to leave before I give up and die or my body does it for me. But without adequate meds I'm stuck in my hated bed. DON'T move to WA or OR if you are a real chronic pain patient. Stay away and check out any state before you move. I'll probably die here. I've wracked my brain for escape options but now I think it's too late. I'm 59, my wreck was 7 years ago and not my fault. I was active, loved life, loved sports and ran a large ranch. Now I'm nothing, and I do nothing. For 6 years after my wreck I rebuilt a decent life but the last year has broken my spirit and my will. Don't let this happen to you.

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I need a pain doctor in the Spokane Colville area that will prescribe my pain medication I take morphine and oxycodone I had Nick surgery on cervical spine thay could only fix so much the doctors I've seen won't prescribe them I come from Montana and my doctor there gave me the same thing for 8yrs all I want is to have a some what quality of live so I am not spending it in bed cause I can't stand the pain

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Replying to your request to contact u. 7 years of medical treatment, innovations, bright ideas, countless clinics, specialists, etc, lead me to the new wonder, methadone. Yes, my body is addicted to morphine and as a person who, previous to being smashed by a truck from neck to hips. I did not drink or use legal/illegal drugs. I loved my life and anything that affected my mind I hated. I never understood why anyone would wish to run the risks with odds so not in favor. I had a painful childhood, abuse, but common to the Midwest farming communities of that Era. Still no drugs, I got sick drunk once at a dance. That put all alcohol on my evil list. I haven't wanted to relive that adventure so I never drink. Back to methadone, I had high hopes. My body becomes sensitive or allergic to drugs fairly easily. It will now only tolerate morphine and oxycodone as it has rejected all other pain meds. This was when methadone the savior, miracle drug was offered to me. I reacted instantly and violently to it. Hospital, coma, seizures, I don't remember much of the 6 weeks after my first dose. Yes, protocol had been followed prior to administration. I'm 59 yrs old. I have 1 million $ worth of titanium holding me together. My life expectancy was max 10 yrs after my wreck & surgeries. It's been 7.5 yrs. The docs still don't know how I survived, sat up, learned to walk again. I know it is God's handiwork. So, all I ask is that for what time I have left I'm sufficiently medicated so I can be up, out, and in the world. I was living a decent happy life until a year ago when the CDC decided what was best for me. I lived on my own, had a garden, a horse, went to pottery classes, loved photography, travel (US) by motor home. I don't want to die in this bed when it would take so little to get me out of it. How is that an unreasonably request? If u really want to help, get me out of bed, let me enjoy what I have left, plz.

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The reason everyone is having such a hard time finding a doctor who will prescribe is because it is now against the law to prescribe narcotics to chronic pain patients in Wa. state. Google "Wa. state narcotics law" and you will see. You will also come across an article in the Seattle Times saying how the director for the Seattle Pain Center has lost his license for over prescribing so you can forget that one too. I saw someone here writing about how good that place is. So it doesn't matter how good records, MRI's etc. that you have, no narcotic meds for chronic pain.

I am also a chronic pain sufferer and when I asked my doctor if I could have just a few vicodin 5mg. a month for the really bad days... I said not a lot, just 10-15, she said NO, we do not treat chronic pain with narcotics anymore and it is against the law. You will not find any good doctor in this state who will unless it is a pill mill doctor. She said only if you are a cancer patient is the exception. She said it is because people overdosing has become an epidemic even bigger than illicit drug overdoses and this is why. Washington state is the first to have this law... oh great :(

I was just shocked because who would need pain meds more than a chronic pain patient? This is terribly unfair and if I could move to another state I would. There is also a loophole to the law that says that patients getting narcotics before the law can continue to get them.

To Marco - I have been on Suboxone before and found it had great pain relief for me but there is a catch to that too. Not every doctor can prescribe it (they have to take a short course) AND it is NOT prescribed for pain management ever!! It is used for pain management in other countries in Europe but not here (Google Suboxone prescribers). If you are a opiate addict and go to rehab you get put on Suboxone and if you stay on it the rest of your life you are considered a hero. It is so unfair.

You mention that it is a lesser drug than narcotics like oxy, etc. but it only seems that way because it doesn't make you feel high. It is actually a very strong drug and that's why a small amount can make opiate/Methadone withdrawals instantly stop. 8mg. Suboxone is stronger than 30mg. Morphine. What choices do we have left in Wa. state? Not many!! Does anyone know of a pill mill doctor?

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I have a dr who prescribes my same disease that I've been on for 7+ years so I'm not sure on this law he's never mentioned it and I've never seen it

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Devon, Here is a link to a Seattle Times article about it:

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/new-state-law-leaves-patients-in-pain

As I said in my previous post, patients who have been prescribed a narcotic before the law came into effect can keep getting their medications and should consider themselves lucky. I believe the law changed in 2011.

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I moved here in 2015 and it took about 60 doctors to keep me on my meds but I have a dr it's a 2hr drive but he's worth it and checks on me. Canada is always a option as a visit is $54 American just bring all your records..however they don't have soma

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I moved to Vancouver Washington from Northeast Pennsylvania. I have been on pain medication from a licensed pain management doctor. I had a Discectomy on my neck in 2014 and have spinal stenosis. No one around here wants to recommend a doctor that does Oxcy or nucynta medication even though my records have been transferred. They want me to do chiropractic therapy with a plate in my neck so I can become paralyzed. There is no conservative help for spinal stenosis and that's why I was on meds for so long.

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Yes I actively have been trying to find someone who is able to prescribe me my 2 meds..nothing crazy or extreme

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Yes, the federal government consists of a bunch of yeahoos, who have no understanding of the effects that opiates have on creating a better quality's of life, for those that are in Pain and those suffering from a plethora of mental illness and depression. It is time that we have wake up and make these medications more readily available. The number of folks requesting these medications are steadily increasing, while finding doctors to prescribe them is decreasing, due to being scared of losing their licensing. Something has to be done about changing these outdated barbaric laws!

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His ONLY concern is getting you OFF of any and EVERY opioid medication you may be using for relief - and regardless of how many years!

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