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

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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Absolutely false they will only prescribe dilaudid and flexeril and treat you like a number at the DMV or cow at slaughter house and they do not give u a script first visit they make u take a UA and come back 39 days later

Seattle pain in a joke just read the reviews...Overlake has been my savior

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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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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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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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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 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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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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Jeff who are you referring too??

I'm still actively looking my back and joints have worsened I've been suffering and steady on meds since 2005 as well as different therapys..

I live by Canada and will drive further south max Seattle or into Redmond if needed

Please any help is greatly appreciated flying back monthly to Arizona isn't a possibility for me

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The doctor I've been seeing since I moved here said since I'm new to the area I'd have to start the whole "conservative" medical process all over again. My medical records don't mean I'm getting pain meds here because I was getting them back East. He said the laws in Washington doesn't allow doctors to prescribe pain meds. I know in Pennsylvania as long as you're getting a U/A done every 6 months for the script any doctor including the E.R. can prescribe the meds.

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See----what dr is this? I was just given a list by a sports med dr who told me who prescribes as long as your willing to do other therapies...

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Hi See... I'm a little confused because in your post down below you said that the doctor at Wa. Center for Pain Mgmt. told you that they can't prescribe narcotics but in this post you say you are getting 10mg. Oxy. twice a day.

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Hi See... I'm a little confused because in your post down below you said that the doctor at Wa. Center for Pain Mgmt. told you that they can't prescribe narcotics but in this post you say you are getting 10mg. Oxy. twice a day. Oops, I meant to say Dee Dee not See :)

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I am interested, can you help me? My dr is retiring

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