Need Help Finding A Doctor That Will Prescribe Methadone For Pain Management In West Tennessee (Page 2)
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I have a unique situation. I am a recovering addict with severe chronic pain. I have really bad scoliosis that's in my neck and back and been in several really bad car wrecks. Lets just say I'm a tree magnet when riding with other people. I have been on suboxone and subutex for the last 2 years. Before then I was going to the methadone clinic on and off for a few years but I couldn't pay for it anymore so I had to stop going. And before and during that I was going to the pain clinic for my back and neck pain. I was prescribed 120 10mg oxycodone and 120 60mg Morphine. Before all that I was Doing like 6 to 10 80mg OxyContin and 6 to 10 200mg morphine a day off the street from age 16-24. This was before I got insurance and found out I had scoliosis at the age of 24 and now about to turn 28. So there's no way I can take pain pills cause they don't work for my pain or my life. I haven't had a job or really got out of the house in the last two years because of the pain I'm in. I can't live a normal life on suboxone or subutex I'm just stuck in pain and became distant from everybody and everything I love. methadone was the only thing that has ever worked and gave me a normal life. If anybody can help me find a doctor I would appreciate it. Thank You

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Are you a doctor I am in the same problem except I have congestive heart failure. I have shade 2 back surgeries and 1 on my neck.

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Since you are unemployed I don't know why you don't get Obama Care. Then th clinic would be free for you. I paid for the clinic for 14 years and I applied for Obama Care when my husband died, its easy to get..You don't need to suffer

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I need a PC doctor in Portland, Or. Who will prescribe pain medication for chronic neck and lower back (degenerative disc disease along with osteoarthritis) and Pain in my right shoulder. My PC doctor is retiring. Can anyone help?

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No dr will prescribe methadone for addiction, they will only prescribe it to u if u say u need it for pain management. If at any point u ever say u needed it for addiction or to get off opiates they wont give it to u. They can only prescribe u methadone tablets if it's for pain management and u have to have a paper trail where u have been seeing drs for pain and u will have to try a few different things and once those dont work then they give u the methadone. crazy crazy. i have been on pain management 5 yrs and im fighting them as we speak to please up my dose. i've been on 40 mgs for 5 yrs and know by the middle of the day i am starting to get clamy and have hot flashes, cant eat and want to bite everybody's head off. I have never ever had a dirty drug panel in 5 yrs and they dont want to up me one extra pill a month. This is why people go to the streets cause drs get u hooked on pain meds then they wont up yours meds and i have never asked before. This is first time ever. I never miss appointments. im writing this for a family member in there wrods cause he has Parkinson's, migraines, mental retardation, tremors, copd and lung cancer and they wont help him. I was so mad. Also he is like that of maybe a 10-13 yr old. He lost his memory one day. Woke up and was like a small child. We have never asked for extra meds cause he over took them cause a nurse gives all the meds at his house and all he does is sit and after 12 he is miserable until 8 at night when we can give him his muscle relaxer and sleeping meds. It's horrible to watch. We are in fresno. If anyone knows of a dr who may help us help him it would be great.

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I have never had pain management.Because i'm a addict. Now that i know longer abuse my pain medication.Now is the time i need to
It the most. I have so many physical things that are wrong with me. It's not just a headache it's severe chronic pain literally from my head to my toes. The oldest going back 17yrs. The two most recent have been in the range of a month. Really don't know what i could have done to deserve this. I guess having my leg amputated in 1999. Would have limited some back surgeries. I don't know. I'm desperate &out of answers not asking for help i'm begging for it.Please help give me some answers. I ran out of those some time ago.

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I am addicted to tramadol er 100mg twice a day. I want to stop taking tramadol .I tried so many times but failed due to pain and sleep less night. Please let me know any other way to get out of it or you let me know other medicines which are not addicted. Thank you.

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Good doctor. I wish you were mine

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I know a doctor in the bay area, I was getting 480 methadone, 120 dilaudid, norco, and klonopin. My pain was handled. I'm 54 and don't care about addiction anymore. I just don't want to hurt 24/7. My biggest problem became, pharmacy wouldn't have quantity, then insurance didn't want to pay. I hate the veterans admin. I lost that doctor because I moved. Now it's hell trying to get all that back. I'm way legit as far as pain goes. I'm in Sacramento now can anybody hear me?

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honey try to stay strong I no it's harder said than done I wuz a single father of two and I ended up getting hurt at work got on pain meds and whent over board lost them just stay strong I no its hard and nobody understands but u everything will be ok

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It is $118 a week now. Price increase went through in January.

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Go seek out petitions online and sign them!!! Change.org is one of many out there. Tell everyone about them.

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My husband has cancer and its back for the ninth time in nineteen years. He had a great doc who wrote his ms contin, percocet for breakthrough pain but the doc moved. Now he is w a pain clinic who barely gives him enough medicine to function. It is so bad he is thinking of stopping all treatments and going w hospice. Please if anyone knows of a doc in MS or TN who can help it would make a huge difference and possibly save his life.

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Your reaction to Desyrel (trazodone) was atypical. Damned right Ambien and Lyrica should be in Schedule IV. One pharmacology professor told me years ago, Ambien is Valium without the buzz" and he sketched the two comparative molecules. I've written for probably 100 scripts for Trazodone for sleep. Those I DC'd were because it wasn't strong enough...and, let's not forget, my toga, DA sister, broke out in Hives! Because a drug doesn't work for you or you're allergic or hypersensitive doesn't make it a bad drug. Just last week, I had a patient referred to me by one of my best and fully linen sed residents. Couldn't sleep except with 100mg of Thorazine and 30mg of Ambien qHS. I don't like signing deals with the devil and even at 100mg/day....x 25 years... could spell major trouble. That's why this boy asked if I'd see his patient. I did and after some discussion, I discontinued the Thorazine and put him on 300mg of trazadone. I kept him on the Ambien — if used properly, it's never a problem — and he's sleeping fine.

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I was prescribed Trazadone for depression back in early 2000's and it did nothing but knock me out, for a long time, and made me feel droggy and dizzy the next day.. And I usually have a high tolerance because I have had to be on medication of some kind most of my life and by the time I was 30, along with illnesses (medical and psychiatric), since childhood, I ended up severely injuring myself working as a LPN, was out on perm disability with back injury neck injury, after 2 failed surgerys, now DDD, spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis(in every joint in my body including back neck even my jaw joints), fibromyalgia, hip dysplasia (1hip replaced in 2014)neuropathy, RSDS, migraines, TMJ, carp tunnel, and list cont.. I still also have my psychiatric conditions(many I've had since childhood) so I am not sensitive to mess by no means.... Yet Trazadone was horrible... Yes it helps sleep, but when you sleep that long that sound, it made me depressed.. Also, when I woke so unstable in my feet from like a bad hangover, I actually fell down a couple times.. It angers me that the government wants to almost do away with pain meds and chronic pain sufferers like myself, suffer... Yet meds like trazadone and amytriptyline are given and not considered a controlled drug... Yet ambien and lyrics have been classified controlled... WHAT???? They don't care what's harmful... It's all about power and money. (my opinion)..

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I have heard that Methadone us an excellent pain killer. I've been living next to neighbor who has had slipped discs in his back; methadone was the only thing that worked for him. He was also on oxyconton 80 mg 4 times a day. Methadone was the only pain killer that worked. He was also on the lowest mg of Methadone as well. I say hey kudos to Methadone. If it works for your pain and you don't mind the side effects then go for it. The major side effects are major weight gain tooth decay and loss.

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I have heard that Methadone us an excellent pain killer. I've been living next to neighbor who has had slipped discs in his back; methadone was the only thing that worked for him. He was also on oxyconton 80 mg 4 times a day. Methadone was the only pain killer that worked. He was also on the lowest mg of Methadone as well. I say hey kudos to Methadone. If it works for your pain and you don't mind the side affects then go for it.

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Looking for your e-mail. read Kevin's post. I can look you in the eye, my dear and state that no patient EVER has done that on MY watch (over even under my "absentee supervision" — when I'm not available, which isn't too often since I routinely take my Midnight Blue Camaro over 100mph answering pages. One or two of the local high patrol were patients or I treated their family members. They DO pull me over to ask if I need an escort at 120mph!

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I just wanted him to stay away from those, big, messy, blots of the Hippocratic Oath.

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Addiction Medicine is not a specialty recognized by the American Society of medical specialties. That ASAM designation is worthless. Very little training is required to qualify and one off the few doctors I BARRED from seeing Substance Abuse Pts was an alleged Addiction Specialist with ASAM "certification". He wasn't just clumsy; he was dead wrong most of the time and I can't be everywhere and neither can my Three Number Twos. The APA will tell you the same the SAM will tell you a lot of folklore and unsubstantiated nonsense. Example: Trazodone originally was market as the tetracyclic (I think!) AD Desyrel. Researchers noticed people were getting awfully drowsy, but the drug was marketed since it did objectively improve Depressive Episode in those studies. It didn't take long for us to realize that it;s a lousy AD, bt aGREAT NLON=ADDICTING SLEEP AID> Many thinks write for it. I take it on occasion an, for the doc, the wide dosage range (from 50- to 500mg at bedtime; however this pt. takes no other meds.) I know of NO OTHER BOARD CERTIFIED SHRINK WHO WRITES FOR TRAZODONE FOR DEPRESSION and the few non-shrinks wrote for it on my advice. i have a lot of friends who've helped me out; why not return the favor?

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Opinions vary on how good an analgesic methadone is, side effects, etc. I had a huge Rx drug problem n college; got help; got my condition assessed and placed the correct meds. Nobody punished me for my "lapse," but it would have been harder for me if I were in med school at the time. Today, I can take Percocet 7.5mg or 10mg when needed. I just don't keep them around the house. I have to CAL a colleague. That said, you clearly need methadone/ AA/NA zombies are also spewing out propraganda tag "the past is the past." Then why don't they do what we do. -- especially when they have no medical training. If cynics don't work for you, are ypu by any chance a veteran? I don't think the VA healthcare system can turn you away as long as you received other than a Dishon. Discharge Im sorry I can't do more You also could try hospital detox — wen hyoure in real pain, they'll now it. Sorry to sound so discouraging.

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