Need Help Finding A Doctor That Will Prescribe Methadone For Pain Management In West Tennessee (Page 3) (Top voted first)

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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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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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 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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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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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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Where are you located? I know of a doctor in West TN that prescribed methadone for me for pain, but it done nothing for my pain, it only gave me a "head high." I too am looking for a pain management doctor in West Tennessee, but not this one that I speak of as he pushes that methadone and I need pain relief not a high

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Hi Nancy I'm dealing with same issues let me know if u find anyone please and thank u.
Ann

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Dr. Appleton in Sparta I used him when I lived there a year ago. I know a lot has changed since then though... He prescribed subtext and suboxone And I believe methadone. I could be wrong about the Methadone.wouldn't hurt to ask. Hope it helps

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Hey sir. I'm on bunavail. God it sucks. Insurance only pays for 2 a day, 4.2 mg. Suboxone works better but can't Alford it. I was wondering would my insurance, amerigourp tenncare pay for methadone? Or how could I find out?

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Hi Ann just saw your message. I haven't had any luck but still looking and pushing my PC to the limit. Just waiting for him to discharge me but he only down to 2 days a week anyway so I am really pretty miserable!#

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I live in camden tn, N I'm looking for a methadone dr. And yes that's west tn.

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is there any doctors that take medicare that prescribes methadone I'm 40 and have been taking opiates since my teens due to car wreck that left me a left above knee amputee.I had a knee surgery that has left me in constant pain my morphine has been cut down so much that I need some relief, from this constant agony.

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Bubba my dr that prescribed me methadone for pain management moved to Florida can u please let me know who u were seeing. If methadone doesn't work for you I know a good pain management dr that will prescribe other medications. Please get back to me.

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Methadone 1850 a day so it's 500 a month cash dam what else they quit give out tabs just liquid at clinics I'm allergic to it

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Sorry to tell you this but it may be impossible for you to find a doc to prescribe you methadone since the new cdc guidelines went into effect 2 days ago.

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I need to find a pain management doctor in the Tennessee area that will prescribe methadone for pain. I will travel if needed. I moved and have been on this medication for pain for 7 years. Love and prayers.

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Hi Adam, concerned citizen here. Having been doing research and trying to find someone to give my husband methadone I stumbled across your post. I don't know if you'll even get this but I hope you do and I hope that you have gotten some help by now. I know it's tough. My husband was on STRONG pain meds for 10 years and when his doctor closed up due to cancer, he couldn't find anyone to give him anything because we live in NC in the county with the highest pain pill prescriptions filled. So, no one will give him the meds he needs so he ends up in withdrawals and goes to the clinic and they give him suboxone and subutex. Those do nothing for pain! So I am now trying valiantly to find him somewhere to get methadone because it helps with the pain AND withdrawal. I hope you are well!

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Re: BZD (# 3)

BZD, please tell me which state you are in? I am relocating to Springfield Mo, a ten year pain management patient on 10mg Methadone (Dolophine) =60mgs a day. I tried mutiple other meds before arriving at methadone - it really is the only one that gave me any quality of life. I have endometriosis... near my spine. Bc I am not a candidate for *procedure* pain treatment & no insurance no one will see me. I am getting near panic Bc returning to La/Tx is not an option. Many people have said go to a methadone clinic but I am so afraid I will never be treated as a real patient again & plus? How would even get the illegal drug I need to have in my system to be admitted? It's a horror circus. Please help.

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Re: BZD (# 3)

No BZD your very wrong. I've been in a methadone clinic and all I have to do is make an appointment with a pain management doctor and they will send my medical records! I also was an addict for years and methadone is the only one that works for me + I also have chronic pain! They told me to find a pain management doctor who will prescribe methadone for me!

I have RSD among many other things chronic pain... How can I find a doctor in Tennessee who will prescribe methadone for pain?

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I had the same issue of trying to figure out how to get onto methadone for pain. I told them I was on heroin just to get in & after a few months told my counselor the truth being pain management and she was ok with it. I'd say try that. Good luck!

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