Pain Medication Cut Downs (Page 10) (Top voted first)

Is it just me or is all the pain management docs trying to cut everyone down or back!!?? When I went to my last visit the doc had the nerve to ask me if I still needed my Oxymorphone 20mg ER (56). I was like YEAH, what do you think?! This is after they closed down for 3 months and I had to switch to Subutex to not get sick. And I got dropped from the 30mg oxymorphone. And by the way the 20'mgs are garbage. Then my doc asked me to get an MRI on my lower back, which I did the month prior. It just goes to show what a dumb ass he is and how they're so not in tune to what is going on! All they want to do is lower and lower your meds. Has anyone else had their doc try and taper them down or try and lower your stuff? By the way, I'm in south FL.

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I am 58 years old and need pain medication for my tmj. I can't find a Dr who will give me a good pain medicine. I would rather have a good quality of life that is shortened by pain meds than a long life that is pain riddled.

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Re: Beth (# 19)

I agree with you. I have also been saying that the plan is to get all pain patients on "legal" marijuana. Big huge money for the government in the taxes ... look at the tax on cigarettes, alcohol, well actually, look at the tax on everything we consume. It’s not so far fetched to believe or think, hmmm they want to force us to consume cbd and smoke marijuana to reduce pain. Long time ago I heard that there is as much nicotine in one joint as there is in a whole pack of cigarettes. Don’t know how much truth there is in that, don’t have the energy to research it. Guess if they get us smoking pot up goes the amount of people needing lung treatment. I seem to be losing track here with my wayward thoughts. I don’t even like pot, hate that buzzed in the brain feeling, the body aches, and lazy, don’t feel like doing anything but sleeping feeling pot gives me. Funny, my start on anti opioid 7.5 seem to be doing the same thing to me. Conspiracy theory that they want the tax money on pot I think that in the coming months the conspiracy will be realitym it’s all about money.

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Hey just for everyone's 411, if you plan on stopping suboxone only to get back on it a short time afterwards, you will be forced to seek counseling or some kind of drug rehab here in the USA unless you're already taking it. If you have been on it for 4 or 5 months you are grandfathered in to where you don't have too. If you are going to switch doctors or anything like that you will have to seek drug counseling. It's the new law that has just been placed on every doctor here. If you don't they can not treat you. Like its not expensive enough and degrading already!!!

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Yes, a year ago this month I was cut off oxymorphone from 2 ten mg IR and two 20 mg ER. I was on them for 6 years. I was given a 60 pill script of 5 mg pills to wean. What a joke. I was told I tested positive for morphine and I have never had or done morphine outside of a surgery in my life. I tried Suboxone and my pain was horrible so now I'm on methadone; best decision of my life!!!

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Re: Beth (# 30)

I have not lost all my medication ... YET! In 2 months my doctor. Cut both long acting and break thru mefs by half. This came after a large cut a few years ago!

With a doctor visit I am terrified of ... My plan is in place as my medication is not nearly enough as it! Doctors are killing us!
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Re: Tbones89 (# 15)

I guess they figure that not as many medications are needed since we are killing ourselves due to pain
AND when they reduce supply even more deaths will take place when people cant get pain under control when they can no longer get their scrips filled!

But Hey .... Getting a gun is still easy to end the missery!

They seem to have it all figured out!

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Re: Lizzy dizzy (# 143)

This is good. Hand carry your records to the new pain specialist. Be sure to remove anything incriminating before you hand them to the new doctor! If the new doctor asked me why I was on this Subutex I would tell them that it was a suggestion by another doctor and you thought it was worth a try but it has not worked out for you!

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Re: Rawdog (# 149)

I dont know! I believe they said they did not have their medication in their system due to their child stealing them! I have no crystal ball but know I was put on subutex after I moved and had to change doctors. I had a problem with it initially because I lost a child to a drunk driver and it matters to me probably more than most what other people think of me! After talking to a pharmacist I felt better about it because it is not a drug that they give to addicts unless you are a pregnant woman. It would be prescribed just until the delivery and then they would be switched to a drug like suboxone. An allergic reaction to the drug that is in suboxone naloxone (spelling) would be another reason. I was on subutex for about two months but it did little for the pain in my spine from a failed surgery so the doctor finally put me back on my old meds... until the next bolder came down on me so to speak. This is the reason why I think she may be telling the truth!

I wrote her a while ago but for whatever reason it was never published!

One thing is for certain, far too many people were getting pain medications that they did not need and were selling them for profit. Drs. were supplying people with these drugs as well for profit! All they would accept was cash! What kind of doctor takes no insurance and only cash?

People will always need these pain medications, to withhold them from those that actually need them... even in relatively large doses should be able to get them! Somehow we need to do better types of background checks on people before they are given opioids. If they have had run-ins with drugs in the past; it does not mean they should suffer but doctors need to be far more diligent if treating someone who has had a past with drugs! Many people have had overdoses and if they actually looked they could find this and not leave everything up to the doctor to decide!

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Re: Lizzy dizzy (# 159)

I wish you the best as well Lizzy!

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Re: Focked (# 155)

Hi Docked,I'm in Australia ,I hope you are safe,just wanted to know what people do if they are on daily pain management,and can't get to collect it because of cyclone,I truly believe the weather climate has changed, unfortunately the guy in charge here is a non believer in climate change ,I don't know how they can sleep at nite ,it's not enough to take people s pain or anti anxiety meds away and play God, there got to wreck the planet as well .take it easy stay safe.

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Re: Rawdog (# 184)

First thing 1st, she was saying hi TO south Florida (you), then she said she was in the panhandle. Calm down.
And really, I have to drive 50 miles to pain management. It sucks, and it hurts-it takes me two days to recover from it, but at least it makes the rest of the days tolerable and functional.
Call your insurance company for options for clinics that are taking new patients. If there aren’t any, having them aware of that helps in the long run.

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Re: John (# 3)

Wow,John,you are a rare bird.What I mean by that, is you are from the medical community and are experiencing what us "patients " have to go through, I am truly sorry for all the hurts you are having to go through. I wish you well.

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Hey there Rawdog!
I am not sure who was a little leery of Lizzys story; you or Jack but I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt! Today however is another story! When we make up a story, we sometimes forget what we told! If the story is true our story should remain the same!

After reading Lizzies story today all sounded good except I thought I remembered her saying that the family member who stole her pills was a man!
I'm sorry but I call it like it is and the following is what she told us not too long ago!

Hi Jack.
About a year ago I had a family member that was living with me. He still means a lot to me, trust me. He was stealing my pain medication, I caught him we had a conversation and I thought all was good. I started putting them in a safe, somehow he got into the safe Jack. I went to my pain doctor one day and of course I had no pain meds in my system because I had no pain medication, do to him stealing them. The last straw for me was when he didn't get in the safe he stole the whole safe. I finally threw him out of my home

Today when she tells us how she was honest with her doctor ... the family-member who stole her pills was her sister-in-law!

She referred to what should have been her sister-in-law with the word him at least four times in her previous post!

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Hi there in south Florida! I’m in the panhandle area. I have been on pain meds for 20 years now due to nerve damage from shingles and severe arthritis in multiple joints. So I do know your frustration. I have to ask you tho, if you think your doctor is such a “dumb ass” why do you continue to go to him? Find someone else to help you. I think most doctors are doing the best they can for their patients while trying to stay in compliance with the new laws on opioid prescriptions. Good luck, and I hope you can find another doctor.
Annabel M.

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Re: Lizzy dizzy (# 157)

Lizzy dizzy (# 157) --
I wonder how you would look at it if you were being honest about it ... if you read that from someone else! It makes no sense to me why you would have referred to your sister-in-law as him. I understand that you may not have wanted to reveal who the family member was but why would you refer to them as a different gender! I don't know if you are telling the truth or not but I have to admit it makes me very skeptical!

There is a thread here somewhere, where a young man went to his doctors and got a new prescription but the prescription had a date written on it that he could not fill it till! Again I won't say I know exactly what he did but I am pretty sure I do! The prescription ended up at his Pharmacy to be filled but the pharmacist noticed the date looked odd and call the doctor! The physician told the pharmacist that the prescription had been tampered with and it was not to be filled. The gentleman told the doctor that he did not know how his prescription ended up with a different date on it. He put it on the dashboard of his car and went to the pharmacy and went to fill it, he knew nothing else! Of course he was let go by the doctor. Many peo0le on the site defended him bevause he was well known and liked! Someone even provided him with the name of their doctor which he then went to and got his medications back! It was not long after that and he died of an overdose! I could look for that thread for you if you don't believe me; it really happened!
I'm terribly sorry that I hurt your feelings; but I also do not feel like I should have to pretend that nothing was there to be seen when I felt there was!

I don't know if you know it or not but I did reach out to you and try to explain that Subutex was not used for addiction except in the case of pregnant women or someone who is allergic to naloxone I believe it is called! I tried to help you because I would have wanted someone to help me if they could but after putting your two posts together it just does not make sense to me I am so very sorry!

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