Refusal Of Treatment By Pain Clinics For Mmt Patients
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I am a MMT Patient at a Clinic in Western Pennsylvania Recently i had an Injury at Work and Suffered a Burst Fracture to l1 Vertebrea and bubed l2 disc Trauma Surgeon Released From Hospital With Referral for 3 Month Chronic Pain Management Treatment .Workers Comp Called every Pain Clinic in a 100 mile Radius All Refuse To Treat .Anyone Know Of One that accepts mmt patients.THANX

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Good luck, i hope u find some help for your pain. Unfortunately, pain clinic MD's usually prescribe strong opiate pain meds. If you're going to MMT, and are on more than, i believe 80 mg's, of Methadone, Opiates will no longer work the same as it did before u began MMT because the methadone contains an opiate "blocker"
You'll get a better explanation if u google it, but basically, Opiates such as Morphine, Oxy, Percocet, dilaudid are called Agonists while Methadone is an antagonist, which are opiate blockers.
I hope This helps someone. Please send me questions, comments or I can just he someone to talk to that's going thru the same things as you. Thanks

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Tell me about it! I live in Nashville and recently lost PM and primary care told me 4 months ago they were working on it and this week they just asked me, " why were you going anyway?" They never even obtained any of my medical records showing my history! They got tired of my insistence and dismissed me. Now they're trying to withhold my records, I don't think they even have any!!!

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NEED A PAIN CLINIC THAT WILL HEP ME..LUPUS..FIBROMYALGIA..DDD..RUPTURED DISCS AT L-4 L-5..DIABETIC NEUROPATHY..LIVE IN TN AND THE NEW LAWS ARE A JOKE...IM SUFFERING NEEDLESSSLY..WILL TRAVEL OUT OF STATE..THANK YOUAKIQ

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I'm sorry you're suffering, but to be honest, due to the possible liabilities, plus the complications of treating someone taking Methadone, I am not sure you are going to find a place that will treat you.

Learn more Methadone details here.

Most places will likely just tell you that you need to use a higher dosage of Methadone for awhile.

When I lived in PA, it was hard to find one that would treat with any type of pain medication.

Are you able to travel outside of PA?

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