How Do I Get My Dr To Prescribe Me Demerol (Page 2)

i take dilaudid and tramadol and have been for a least 3 years, i take several 8mg dilaudid at a time. i reember demerol working nicely while i was in the hospital....how do i gwt me dr to give me that?

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Demerol 50 MG (name brand) are no longer available as of earlier this year 2017. I now have to get Demerol (name brand) tablets 100 MG and cut in half. I have a number of chronic painful conditions, fibromyalgia, cervical thoracic dystonia, scoliosis, degenerative disc disorder, bulging disc, pinched nerves in back/neck, everyday headaches, + more, however, I've only requested Demerol before having one of more than a dozen surgical procedures. I'm allergic to Codeine, Percocet, Morphine, Hydrocodone, Lortab, and MEPERIDINE which is the generic for demerol, so my only option is Demerol name brand. I tried MEPERIDINE and I had such a bad reaction to it I did not take it but a few days after a surgical procedure, 90 days after my surgery I took my medication to my doctors visit, showed them I'd not been able to take it and there was no need to be concerned that I was addicted or may become, I've been using Demerol for more than 10 years now, I have 4 pills locked away in my safe from a 2012 script, 2 pills from a 2014 script, I only take pain medication when I absolutely need it, I do take valium, flexeril, Ambien CR 12.5, Zolpidem, and use pain creams & rubs. Please be careful with narcotics, it's so very sad to see so many people addicted to prescription medications, doctors are right to be cautious and concerned.

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I can totally relate. I have had severe migraines for 28 years and have tried about every preventative and new migraine drug on the market. Zomig will help I catch it soon enough but add on MS with neck spasms and Fibromyalgia, expose me to heat or not enough sleep and I am in bed for days. BUT when we lived in Bham, Al I had an awesome neurologist who would give me an inj. of Demerol and Phenergan and it would be gone. When I got to where I could not drive, he wrote me the pill form or Meperidine to have at home. Then we moved to Illinois. Whole different painful existence. I have been to the ER once because I am not working and hubby's in pain management and still working 7 days a week to keep us afloat. They would not give me Demerol, though I had worked in medical for 22 years, knew what did not work and what would relieve my pain. It is not like I had been there repeatedly seeking Demerol. But I told them what had been tried when the headache is days long. It had been 7 years since I had gotten Demerol and they still DID NOT LISTEN TO THE PERSON EXPERIENCED IN TREATING HER MIGRAINES. They gave me an ice with Magnesium and something else and I left the ER 6 hrs. later with the same damn migraine.

Now I am having daily migraines and it has affected me mentally. So for depression, they rx'd Wellbutrin. Well hello Serotonin Syndrome when I had to take 2 Zomig in one day! But they can't have me abusing Demerol every 7 years! If I had the Rx to take at home, I know for a fact that my migraines would be greatly reduced. And like I mentioned above, my b/p gets dangerously high even on b/p meds because of the pain. I understand they deal with addicts seeking narcotics but they have the ability to view all of my medical records via a local network I gladly participate in. But I sit at home & suffer because why should I go to the ER to rack up a bill and not be helped, especially when I have done their job for them, trying this and that over 28 years until I found what works. And they ignore it. I am going to see my MS Neurology for my headaches and I will be broaching it with him. He already ok'd medical marijuana but we have good insurance that would cover a Demerol Rx and it would work for the Love of God, no addict here, just a person with Chronic Migraines, MS, Fibromyalgia and Sjogren's Syndrome, to list a few...oh and alot of treatable pain. It is like they are masochistic or something. Grow a heart and use your doctor brain and listen to your patients!!!!

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Every time I've had to go to the emergency room for kidney stones they have given me everything but Demerol and their medicine never works on me. But, as soon as they give me the Demerol the pain immediately stops and I'm able to lay down on the hospital bed.

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Re: Bear (# 4)

I agree with you. I rarely take or need pain medications. But when I do, demerol is the only thing that works for me. All others make me sick, "out of it", and don't work. I know there are side effects, but you can't tell me that there aren't side effects to pretty much everything, Including pain meds.

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Re: ConstantPain (# 5)

I know very well how you feel, after experiencing my accident on the trampoline when I broke my tibia bone in my leg. It was a bad break, bad enough to make the doctor think whether or not it was worth fixing, amputation crossed his mind. I kept my leg thank "God". I was off my feet for almost 1 year. My back and my hips were never the same after I had constant pain. At this time I was on oxycontin 40 mg and dilaudid 8mg oxy morning and evening and dilo between doses. This was actually quite wonderful worked wonders for my pain. I remember at the hospital they were giving me some shots of painkiller that Im not even sure what it was but after a few shots a couple days later my pain was coming back quite a bit faster and only taking off the edge. The next morn doc sent pills to swallow. I remember them telling me it was oxycontin 40mg. I will never forget after about 20 minutes laying my head back with the sudden relief of the pain subsiding fast, I had the best sleep Id had in a long time. After a few hours they asked how my pain was scale of 1 to 10. I told them 5 maybe more as it was progressing quickly.

I was given 8 mg of dilo with 4 mg of dilo (12 altogether). This took the edge off the pain till the 2nd dose of oxy that night. This was the best dosage I was ever given. It worked just perfectly. It is now approx 11 1/2 years ago, a lot has happened since then. I've had a lot of rough times and my script was brought down to 20 mg and completely cut off the dilo. As you can expect the pain was a bit less but never gone. In fact the last couple of years the pain is agonizing at times as the oxy had been supposedly taken out of the pharmacies. I was cut off completely for a year but the pain got so bad i was considering the bullet myself. I wound up with a canadian (white doctor) who i guess was just finding god in his life and asked if i believed... i said yes and i ended up staying with some family of practicers of god / jesus and a couple days went by of praying and trying to cast the pain out in the name of jesus and well i guess i was just a bit weirded out when she was howling all loud and touching me all over, even told me if i started to feel funny down there that it's normal cause all my sins were coming out. Well ok enough is enough. Im outta there lol...so once again i got no help there and later went to see him to ask for something for my pain as it was getting to be just too much. He gave me some 5mg pill called statex. Wtf was that? He gave me a 20 pill to try for 10 days. I had finished the prescription in two days as it was fake im sure & tasted like candy.

Anyways, i make another rendezvous to explain it doesn't work. The night before i had a friend come over, i was not feeling up to company as the pain was sill progressing. Im not a person who likes to do drugs. Ive tried a few times here and there but it was never my thing & I never made a habit of it. Back to my story - A friend came over who was an addict of cocaine and tried convincing me of its affect on pain. I was doubtful and of course gave it a try. I dont remember it doing anything for my pain but i do remember feeling uncomfortable and not much sleep. Finished with that I knew. Come the rendezvous the next day with my doctor I continued to ask for something that would work, out of the blue he asked me if I used drugs. He doubted me I swore it and he demanded a drug panel. It totally didn't cross my mind about the cocaine the night that had passed, wtf was i thinking? Maybe i figured it would be gone out of my blood seeing the effects were gone long ago. Well I failed by a long shot and believed to now be a lying drug addict looking for some high. I felt like a real f***ing looser. I tried to explain but the more explaining i did the more foolish i looked too?

One day i met a lady who was in alot of pain and was there to talk to her doc about her pain too asking to have her meds a bit stronger. I asked if what she was taking worked for her and she told me yes but it needed to be stronger. I don't know why but she reached into her pocket and emptied 10 or 15 orange capsules into my hand and immediately I swallowed one and took off home 30 minutes later the pain started to go away. About 5 years ago i finally changed my doctor and I told him I had been trying to find a permanent doctor who would help me to find a way to help my pain and lets be honest i mixed a bit of truth with a bit of white lies. The capsules the girl gave me that day were hydromorph contin 12 mg and it took the edge off my pain so i told the doctor that i had been taking 18 mg of this pill and my last doc who turned very religious took them from me cold turkey after a few years and told me to pray to god to take my pain away. So i needed his help because the pain was too much to have to deal with the pain every day. Its ruining my life.....And.....it worked! Thank god (lol) it was all the truth except the kind of meds i was taking. The pray thing was true, the being cut off everything was true, except i changed the meds... do i feel guilty? Not At All...

It could still be a few mg plus but for now I wont complain. Now I'm scared cause it's been a few years. Starting to shake and forget things and (age) is hitting. When I tell my doctor that the pain and hurt is cutting into my life, he tells me it's all in my head. So I see we're gonna run into trouble soon. I asked him to make my script higher one last time or at least something in between so it will be easier for me to live and he bluntly said if i asked again he would cut my prescription completely. So well yep im now on the edge with pain that's still there and anxiety out the roof with clonas 0.5 and refusal of any higher and this is where i am in my life right now. I been on the road to nowhere the whole time and feels like i still am amongst all the other losses and things ive had to deal with. I hope the best for you in llfe my friend, lets hope something turns around on our favour one day. p.s. there were two other accidents i didnt mention here. I guess my story was long enough to get my point across.

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Re: DeeAnne (# 8)

I have been suffering from horrible migraines I see a neurologist and he prescribes 6 Demerol shots a month I give myself at home. Unfortunately, he is retiring in a few months and my primary care doc doesn't believe in narcotics. I've been to the ER quite a few times before seeing the neurologist and they gave me two Tylenol. I cried and walked out. I'm making myself sick because I know what's coming after he retires. I don't know what I'm going to do.

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Well if you're taking several Dilaudid 8s at a time I would not recommend telling this to your doctor because he will most likely try finding you a rehabilitation center loll....jk. I would just be honest and tell him you have taken Demerol before and you remember it working better than what you are taking right now, ask him if he can change your medication because your immune system has built up an immunity to what your taking and you have started taking a bit more to calm the pain and you would like to switch to the Demerol hoping you won't need as much. Personally, I would be happy with the dilaudid 8s. I have been taking hydromorphone 18 mg for a few years now and it really does not help anymore and my doc refuses to give me anything else. That's my advice to you.

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