Need Help Finding A Doctor That Will Prescribe Methadone For Pain Management In West Tennessee
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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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Re: Adam (# 2)

Yes there is a law that makes it illegal to prescribe controlled substances to a known addict.

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Re: SCRATCH (# 61)

You sound exactly like me! I'm kinda in the same predicament as you. I'm a 42 yr old woman with failing fake hips that badly need to be done but can't find a surgeon to fix them. So aside from being in debilitating pain & stuck in bed most of the time I now have a heart condition that requires meds thanks to my Dr forcing me to live in pain for 3 yrs. Now I'm finally in pain mngmt & this joker is taking me off the little bit of pain meds my gp was giving me. My heart Dr is certain that forcing me to deal with the pain again will be to much stress on my heart and will end in heart failure. Then add in the stress of detox from the meds & I'm totally screwed! I've made this clear to them & they don't agree with the heart specialist. If i die from this I've instructed my family to raise hell, go after each Dr that wouldn't help me with full legal force! If I survive it, I'm gonna do it myself! Best of luck though. Wish i could help more though.

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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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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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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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I believe if about 2000 to 5000 people across the country would all go to the CAPITAL STEPS OF THIER STATES and all on the same day thru out the country and all threaten to commit suicide or some extreme other something if they don't make some changes in getting people the help needed for their pain maybe just maybe with the media coverage and spotlight being placed openly on the problem the laws could be changed. Why cant we have clinics for each county in our state that specifically treats this problem? Every man and woman should be afforded the right to have the proper meds to treat their pain without the f***ing government being involved. I mean look I see Doctor Phil and others say how bad Oxocode is and make such an issue of the addiction of these types drugs yet Alcohol and Cig do the very same thing and they are legal as hell. I had someone once tell me that they would not help me anymore with my pain due to the fact that they didn't want to be the reason I die. (A family member would help me with my pain y giving me one of their pills per day due to the fact that it is so hard to get any help with them now) ut they saw Dr. PHIL, and the six oclock news talking out how these pain killers were doing just that killing people. So I ask them "You mean your not going to help me anymore because these meds are killing folks and you just cant have that on you...they replied that's right.....so I said to them this is the only part of my day that I actually can function and I look forward to that one small pill every day due to the fact I don't hurt for just a while.....and your not going to help me out, you don't have any feelings about the two and half packs of smokes you buy me each day that are killing me for sure and not improving at all the quality of my life. And all because you heard Dr. PHIL says or some government agency. I am a fifty year old man that cant work because of a back injury about 6 years ago. And I cant get anyone to prescribe me anything that will even touch my pain due to the fact that the dam GOVERNMENT has made it so that our doctors cant treat us...

WHEN WILL THE DOCTORS AND THIER PATIENTS ALL STAND UP AT ONE TIME UNITED AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH...LET THE DOCTORS BE DOCTORS AND LET THE PATIENTS QUALITY OF LIFE BE IMPROVED...LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO SPEND IT IN SO MUCH PAIN YOU CANT FUNCTION AND OUR COUNTRY IS FILLED WITH THESE PEOPLE. LETS STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK INSTEAD OF JUST ALLOWING THE GOVERNMENT TO DO WHATEVER!

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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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I agree, with what you said about people not coping with pain nowadays, but you need to remember for long term chronic pain, Ibuprofen will burn your kidneys up. Ibuprofen is great for acute pain, but not for long term severe pain. Also, in the old days people just died young. The average life span was typically between 30-40 years old. Totally different from today.

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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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Paul,

That's not completely accurate, however the use of powerful opiate/opioid containing medications have to meet an elevated threshold for use. I.e; certain end stage diagnoses. That said, Many ny, nj, conn. physicians are now limited to use of certain analgesic's in everyday general practices. Of course methadone maintenance treatment centers are still regulated specifically for opiate/opioid abuse and addiction use only....

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

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

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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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