Need Help Finding Doctor To Prescribe Either Oxycodone Vicodin Or Methadone 10mg For My Chronic Pain (Top voted first)

I have been suffering from chronic pain for 7 years and have always been on and off pain meds from tylenol 3 to 90mg methadone at the worst of any ever taken. I decided to dose down & get off of methadone as I did not care for the "clinic" enviroment per say as I was using more for pain then for addicition. I found a dr that prescribed me the pain meds for breakthrough pain and the pill form of methadone 10mg was what I chose but now he is gone as he lost his license which sucks for me because NO ONE will give me anything, not even the methadone unless I go back to the stupid clinc and I so don't want that... DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A DR. that would prescribe anything or just something to get me through life with less pain? I am in the twin cities of Minnesota and I will drive if need be.

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I live in phoenix Arizona looking for a Dr that writes oxycodone 30 mg and ozyxontin 40mg I had ,Dr of 5 yes,recently passed away . Having trouble finding a new Dr . If anyone can give me a Dr I would appreciate. Thank you

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After going through the horrible "merry go round" of searching for a pain management specialist, THANK YOU GOD I found a wonderful doctor!!!!
I went through a small in-hospital clinic. I did not have to sit in a waiting room with a group of people that "looked like drug seekers" and I was treated with respect as a patient SHOULD be. The doctor is VERY experienced with pain management and actually took the time to listen to me and READ my chart with all my records. I left the clinic in shock after the first few visits. I hope my doctor does not decide to retire or there is a change in management.(Both have happened to me before) Just wanted to share some good news for once....

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First of all I do not have a doctor in Minn if I did I would not be asking if anyone in the area if they could make a suggestion. Am I doctor shopping? You bet! I also shop for shoes, food, clothes. I have dealt with chronic pain for over 25 years and the doctor I go to now has been my only doctor for 15 of them. When you move to a new place don't you ask friends, family ect who is a good doctor to see, or dentist or hospital. I basically do not know anyone in Minn to ask those type of question to. While getting my pain medication is important it is just as important to find a doctor who will take the time to see and listens to me along with a caring staff and well run office. If I had a heart problem and asked people on a web site who they see and are happy with there cardiologist would you criticize me then?

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@Brim: Tramadol has always been a prescription medication. It has recently been made into a schedule IV med due to it being habit-forming. You're mistaken.

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Are these doctors in Arizona

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@Sammi: actually, no I'm not. I'm aware it's always been by prescription only- unless it's online. Go ahead and google "order tramadol, no prescription" and look at the hundreds of sites that offer it in the us. You may fill out a consultation form and a doctor will approve the medication- which is not a prescription. I never said it was over the counter. And it never has been a schedule 3 drug. I'm aware some states have made it schedule 4. I'm a medical student and I know a lot about this drug. You misread my comment and did not research the availability of ONLINE tramadol.

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Jedecla: you are taking more tramadol a day than is legally prescribed. Tramadol isn't as weak as people seem to think, and ten is a lot of pills. The seizure threshold is lowered when you take tramadol, and any more than eight a day increases it exponentially. That means you are much more likely to have a seizure taking that many. Be very careful taking that number of tramadol a day.

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Kevin and KJB- MY insurance changed with the ACA. I CA, a doctor can't write for more than a 30 day supply without a visit.

I have NEVER abused my meds. I'm not an addict and most people here arent.

If you don't have chronic pain, why are you here? What are you contributing to help?

I am going on 8 weeks without meds and have tried every drug option she's suggested these years. She's clearly charted every horrid side effect, some sent me to the ER!!

Don't insult other members when perhaps you have the luxury of job insurance and you got lucky and your meds work.

Not that I have to justify myself to you.

Your judgment isn't helpful and others have different lives.

If you can't help, just go away...

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Boog, they still do ship with no rx. And they're still just as dangerous. Ask all the users who have had seizures from it.

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KJB-YOU DON UNDERSTAND THE TERM DOCTOR SHOPPING.

This is when you go to multiple doctors and pharmacies.for meds without disclosing it.

People here are looking for ONE good doctor who wont make the guinea pigs or leave them suffering. A doctor who actually believes that the patient has knowledge of their own needs.

Please don't judge. You have no idea what different levels of nightmare some are going through.

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A doctor's prescription is no longer based on his or her judgement but out of fear of the FDA. I am a pain sufferer too, not an addict, and there's nothing wrong w a community of people trying to actually find a dr who will still prescribe what has worked for them in the past. I am a nurse practitioner. I am not specifically advocating for opiates, but as of now, we do not have another class of medications to help high level pain, so what do you propose these people do? Just scream their life away until they go into shock like I did? I am not going to stand by and watch people scream bc the FDA is trying to curb addiction statistics. Addiction is a combination of genetic and behavioral components. If you have the gene, regardless of the mechanism of action it will often express. If you don't, most times it won't. You must have never had constant pain that makes you scream all day and night. What the FDA is doing is cruel and they are essentially turning their backs on an entire group of people. If that was not the case, we would not have forums like this. These people are desperate and I understand desperation because I have been there. If you have not truly experienced pain that makes you wish you were dead then you have no idea what you are talking about and you need to stay out of these poor people's business. Shame on you for electing yourself judge and jury of a group of people you neither know nor understand.

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@CeeCee: I realize this is very late, but try Dr. Constantin Starchook at HCMC/HFA interventional pain clinic. I saw him for a few years. He was great.

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KJB #65 I thought in the same way as you did that all these people don't have severe chronic pain problems and just want pain pills. That was until I moved to a different state and having a hard time finding a doctor who is willing to help. I have had back problem since 1987 and have been though the surgery's the shots the PT the different medication. At first those things helped and I have been beyond that for the last 12 years. I finally started to get good pain control with MS-Contin. I have been on the same dose for over ten years. I am taking my medication because pain that is verified per my last MRI I have severe advanced DDD (exact words), moderate foraminal and spinal canal stenosis and that is just my lumber area. You are lucky to have someone who will prescribe the medications you need so you can function the best you are able to. The way thing are going today you may very well be in the very same boat as everyone here is if your doctor retires, moves or decides that they do not want to be on the DEA list to be watched closely anymore.

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kjb-are YOU clear that many people have been on state health programs who for NONE of what you mentioned except nerve blocks which are allowed once or twice a year?

And that they don't have the money to pay privately?

A weekly massage and chiropractic visit is $150 where I live. I don't have $600 a month.

You sound quite privileged or maybe YOUR pain doesn't make you want to scream for hours or days at a time.

When I wake up at 3 in the morning from writhing in pain while sleeping, will YOU pay for those folks and 24 hr/day holistic Pain relief???

you are so arrogant, trying to school others here. Don't you think we burnt up what money we had on ALL forms of help?

Or that we still arent? MY DOCTOR supports my approach. She's a pain management specialist, 25 years in practice.

When you've got that experience, I'll take my advice from you...

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KEV - im truly happy that you found a solution that works for you...good health is a blessing and we are ALL just trying to get the help we need. If my pain management specialist has tried all available options, and this is HER opinion, yours lacks relative merit.

A social work degree is a degree in working with people and systems. An excellent degree, but doesn't include a judge and jury option!

If you want to make decisions about pain management for others, get a better education. Like medical school.

Because you got lucky doesn't mean everyone else here hasn't tried similar solutions. You're just assuming that members are jumping to preferred narcotics. And that's a HUGE assumption, both mean and a narrow view.

Where I live, due to actual drug seekers, and I certainly agree there are many out there, the 30 day, no-refill policy already exists in pain management clinics.

Perhaps where you live, old school rules still apply. Check your own posts. First you said you knew the ABSOLUTE truth about the 30 day rule. Now you've corrected yourself, twice.

If you worked in the field, you'd know that suggesting someone go to "a hospital" for chronic pain management is ludicrous.

I have 3 M.A. degrees, one in MFT with an EXTENSIVE career, including an exhaustive background in pain management and addiction. And ongoing education throughout, including issues attendant to chronic pain such as depression and anxiety.

And yet I STILL consult a specialist, because I want the healthiest options I can find. And neither of us are doctors, so let's not start assuming we should give medical advice.

Rather, we help other community members as we can. That IS THE GOAL of the forum-support.

Newbies in the field are like you. After the first 10-15 years of seeing people truly suffer, perhaps you'll grow into humility. Maybe your own body will start to give out. Maybe it will take watching your parent or child be in intractable pain for you to finally get it...

You didn't CLEARLY AND FULLY read my answer to Sub. Or you just love feeling superior. It seems that despite hearing the truth, your sense of superiority is endless.

With so many war vets home now, chronic pain is a rapidly growing field. My prayer is that you serve them with better sensitivity than you've shown here.

If such a device actually exists, most here would welcome it, AS ANYTHING that helps is welcome for those with injuries that cannot be rehabilitated.

Objective inquiry and confirmation is always welcome if it helps us.

Continuing to call people addicts when it's been clearly explained to you is just wrong.

Perhaps addiction and/or recovery is part of your personal or family story. Idk...It would explain a lot. If that's so, I wish them health and happiness.

Again, you don't own a global truth.

As I said, you are in NO way helping serve anyone here but your own ego.

Try helping others instead. It's much more rewarding.

Best of luck.

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Your best bet to get the help you need may be to try a pain management specialist.

Here is the contact information for several in the Minneapolis area, though I have no information on what medications they prescribe, if any and what insurances they accept:

Dr. Robert F. Birch 763-559-3779

Dr. Back Hong 612-347-3152

Dr. Bert Larson 612-725-2000

Dr. Lon J. Lutz 651-968-5465

https:/­/­rxchat.com/­wiki/­Pain_management/­

Are there any other comments or questions?

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@KeeKee: no, you're incorrect. Tramadol IS still available in most states without a prescription online and it is certainly NOT a schedule 3 drug. In a FEW states, it had gone from schedule 5 ( no need for rx), to schedule 4 (need an rx to order). Where did you get this information? Tramadol is nowhere near as strong as schedule 3 opiates...

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A doctor wont just prescribe you methadone out of no where . You would have to be already recieving a script for chronic pain management and have a valid and reasonable excuse to request the methadone . that is a very strong med with extreme abuse risks . For example i know someone who recieves 35 mg methadone for pain management everyday . He got this from switching from 80 mg oxycontin a day . He has bern slowly building this script in strength for over 8 years . It does not just happen one day .

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Kev-yes my doctors is leaving and gave me a referral. He has a 4 month wait list!!!

Don't think you know others situations.

Be helpful or be quiet..

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Sub- you just don't get it...

At 55, I get Medicare June 1 and lose both my old insurance and doctor as her office doesn't accept Medicare.

Through years of having tried oxycodone, morphine, methadone at her suggestion, I settled for the LEAST intrusive drug, Norco.

I don't like being high. I just want to function daily. MY DOCTOR AGREES WITH ME ABOUT MY CHOICE.

I REQUESTED this drug break to see if I could live with simple Neurontin. Unfortunately, she says my body in this much pain without relief is too stressful and SHE wants me back on Norco.

But she's a pain management specialist and because she's excellent, she gets many more referrals than she has to give. SHE'S TOO BUSY TO CHECK APPT. WAIT LISTS FOR ME. and I understand that.

So, MY DOCTOR said she would do her due diligence in finding a referral without a 4 month wait list.

She also suggested that I reach out and see if other seniors had a good doctor with a shorter wait list and SHE would be happy to refer for me by June 1. We have teamed ALL my care for years and it would be a gift to find someone like her.

That's what I THOUGHT I was doing when I found this site. I don't need the whole world to know my story. I just need a specialist who takes Medicare as time is running out.

If you can understand, great. If you're just here to hate and are arrogant enough to be that rude with no information of another, you're just mean-spirited..... I give all on here the respect to assume they know their lives. Until they say some stupid ish like you did, at least.

So this is my last effort. Now you understand how exhausting it is for people in pain to deal with people like you. Either be helpful or take your ball and play elsewhere. We old ladies have no tolerance for your rudeness and arrogance.

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