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I live in a very small town and the number of doctors here is limited. The number of good doctors is almost nonexistent. I'm finding that calling for an appointment as a new patient the office staff says right away, "We don't prescribe pain meds"! Also have heard "We don't take fibromyalgia patients"! This is said before I ever state what I need to be seen for. Assuming I did have pain, do I no longer have the right to have my pain relieved? I'm so offended by this. If you have chronic pain you are treated like a leper. Apparently it is automatically assumed you have a drug problem. Going to other towns is the same. No wonder people self medicate. Is this happening all over the country?

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IWuz,

Methadone is a dangerous drug and the cheapest LA medication. Created under Hitler when they had a shortage of poppy.

Methadone withdrawal makes opiate withdrawal look like kindergarten. You do have a lot of anger; your emphasis is emotional rather then scientific research supports opioids for less loss of work, divorce rate, the list goes on.

When the FDA and i****s like Odumma start controlling medicine and our scientific community then you have issues. Most physicians do not possess the balls to stand up; in Texas you must be registered as a pain clinic makes a very conservative medical board target physicians faster. The DEA bottom lines a physician a million dollar fine due on accusation not proof of. That million is gone they get to keep that and go out witch hunting more physicians.

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P450, could you explain a little more in detail the agonist/antagonist aspect specific to Ultram? This is new information for me and I would like to understand it more clearly. Thank you!

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Yes, many, many patients at Hopkins are from outside Maryland, both on an outpatient basis, and in- hospital. I believe the easiest way is to obtain a referral from your current physician. He or she might also assist in getting an appointment with the appropriate specialist. In the absence of that, call 410-955-5000 and ask for the referral center. The person will assign a physician based upon your conversation. Be sure to have your insurance information.

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Your arrogance is astounding. I've seen vets on methadone & because it has a very long half life, they sit in a semi-comatose state. Methadone is very cheap which is why the VA loves it. I've been in chronic pain ten years. I just had 4 more molars pulled due to rotting from inside out thanks to Lyrica. By the time I knew what was happening, I had lost teeth. I've tried many meds for pain. Opiates are the only thing that helped. I haven't had to increase the dose in a year & a half. I pay for it myself. When my doctor retires or can't prescibe, my life will be over. I am not going to spend years in the excruciating pain I was in before. My kids are grown & don't come to visit. I can't go out to eat. We can't travel due to finances. My only pleasure is reading. I'm not over medicated. I have horrible insomnia, in fact. But I'll be damned if someone who doesn't know my medical history, will determine what works best for pain for me. I have spent over $150,000 on medical care &prescriptions in the last 10 years.

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Well, after I had trigger thumb release surgery last summer, I had no trouble getting it.

When I refilled it, though, just a few weeks later, the state required a Schedule II prescription. so The surgeon had to rewrite an Rx that he had granted refills on just a short time before.

When I enquired with the pharmacy, they told me about the Schedule Change, as it had just occurred.

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BL,

Go look it up under Texas Medical Board. I am a regulatory expert and they cannot unless they want to LOSE their privileges and the list of doctors doing so is growing larger by the day.

Unfortunately six years ago our entire Medical Board changed to conservatives, this was the fastest way to track QUACK QUACKS as I call the pill mills. Houston was inundated with physicians who had entire typed prescription pads with the SOMA cocktail; either Xanax or Valium, SOMA, and HC. I do not approve of this however, chronic painers in Texas are now forced to go to a pain clinic and they are REGISTERED.

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There, using s a new law preventing primary care physicians from prescribing Xanax or Robaxin to anyone over 62. Does anyone know what this law is called? Supposedly 62 & over are at a fall risk.. Maybe some but not everyone. Seems unfair to single out and place all in one group. What do you think?

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Sandy, it isn't a Law it is a recommendation. It is still up to each dr to prescribe for each patient what they believe is the safest and works the best. Seniors usually are taking multipe meds for different conditions that can effect each other. As you get older your body changes and how meds affects you changes. If you have Medicare, it may be more them than your dr. I honestly can't remember if the recommended age is 62 or 65, although it is up to the dr at any age what they prescribe their patients. You can put Prescribing Guidelines for Seniors in Google and more info will come up.

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P450,

I have been on short and long acting morphine for about a decade. It isn't something I relish, though. Especially when it comes to coming off it, which I have done twice unintentionally. The pain was excruciating and that isn't counting the withdrawal symptoms. And I am concerned about getting older and taking it.

I've tried Neurontin, Skelaxin, Flexeril, Darvocet, and more but nothing worked for very long. I have RA, OA, FM, and various issues due to living too hard and fast when I was younger.

Since I'm allergic to codiene and hydrocodone and Percocet and anything with the same ingredient (of which no one has ever told me the name unlike my live poinsettia allergy due to latex it emits I to the air when the leaves change color, making any place with one hidden in some far corner an effective death trap for me and anyone allergic to latex and turning me into a hermit for about four months every year). I use holistic methods including Accupuncture, massage, biofeedback, physical therapy, hypnosis, meditation, guided relaxation, etc. in addition to pain medicine to try to assuage the unrelenting and mind-numbing pain I have every day...even with meds.

I am open to other methods and other medication. Options are difficult to find, though. I feel thankful that I have a doctor who is willing to work with me.

And if I ever have a condition that would merit pain meds, I always decline and let them know I am on morphine.

Now I worry about my bones and teeth. Info for the layman about the threat t poses would be greatly appreciated.

Heck...I'm willing to go off morphine if something else would work and be legal. Unfortunately here in Texas, medical cannabis isn't yet despite coming close last session.

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Gran,

There is a post we have been doing all opioids cause dental erosion. Also for those rare cases such as my own I was in constant fight or flight response leading to hypercortisolemia Dr. Famous tests all these hormones when you first come in and along the way. He literally gave proof of scientific information to support.

Opioids will erode and break the teeth regardless of good hygiene. All of them dear.

Check out that post we'd love your feedback on that. I'd appreciate any life saving physician help at this time. I do post to the point and over my years since the injury have effectively referred over 10,000 suicidal patients who were ready to take their life instead got them help.

I have deteriorated now and cannot. Dr. Famous made me stop several years ago he said it would kill me. Pro bono literal referrals and helped indigent walk into ERs and get treated, well Odumma has castrated the system and her people. I'd like to see America and her constitution return in order for all of us here to continue to be free.

When physicians must become ball suckers rather then the great men and women they can be it makes me want to gag. Makes withdrawal look like a damn panty raid.

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Sandy,

My dear let me tell you for years we in the medical community thought that babies and grandmothers did not feel pain (the very new to the very old ok) but this is a medical fallacy. Any adult who generally has been opioid tolerant on medication is not going to suddenly become DECREASED due to age.

We must reach our hearts out to those here who are mentally defective and require psychiatric evaluation.

Peace

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P450, Sandy didn't say her dr said she could die. She said he said that at her age the risks of falls became greater. And the number of falls that occurs in seniors is greater than the rest of the population. If she drinks at all, that may also be a reason for her dr's concern.

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Thanks for the info.

I have had extensive dental work and bite revision for TMJD. And I have always ground my teeth and clench all the time. Despite having great teeth, I do have diabetes and over the last few years have had a few cavities. I even had a tooth break recently, but the dentist suspected it had a stress fracture to begin with.

But I will be more mindful.

I feel confident my doctors know their business. We've done RFTCs, PStims, MUAs, injections, and so on. While the pain is somewhat better than it was a decade ago, it is still pervasive and debilitating.

That and Houston is hot all year round. That only exacerbates my pain.

I struggle with diabetes and Myasthenia Gravis on top of RA, OA, FMS, CPS, and structural damage from living fast. So anything to help with the pain is a true blessing. It does freak out some doctors, though.

I carry documents with my ailments and meds (with prescriber info). I've only had one who took me off my meds in the last 15 years during a hospital visit. I screwed up, though. I accidentally took my nighttime meds in the morning and my husband couldn't wake me.

I found out the hard way that Narcan sucks worse than natural labor. It squeezes all 36 hours of hard labor and delivery into an hour and sears your veins with acid. But it was necessary.

That was a decade ago, and I am much more careful now. Everything is colorcoded and kept in different containers now. I never want to go through that again.

I will keep researching my dental health and keep my appointments. Thank you for the info.

I'm not sure who Dr. Famous is, but I was once treated by a doctor who also treated Quentin Tarantino and was even in several of his movies.

He was a wonderful and empathetic doctor; but following a horrific wreck (which killed him twice, only to be resuscitated and put in a coma to heal) he developed an addiction. I still love him to death, but he no longer practices.

After his ordeal, his name and practice was dragged through the mud. He was pegged as a pill mill. Even the people who shared an office building in Baytown talked smack about him. We, his patients, were a pariah.

They didn't know that we patients were evaluated carefully, including contracts, blood work and u/a's. They just wanted their 15 seconds on the back of a man who was at his lowest.

Fortunately a doctor in the Houston area took his patients and I love him and his PA to death, too. They are just as thorough and caring.

As I cross my 50th in a couple of months, I fear that Blowbamacare and the unsettling interference in causes in care will hurt my options.

We want to retire to the Pacific NorthWest, but am concerned about finding another doctor when we do.

I pray for relief every day.

I also see a psychiatrist and he prescribes my sleep meds (because I will go for days without so much as a nap if I don't have it) and Cymbalta to help with the pain.

I've done the psychanalysis and "it's all in your head" quackery. While there are some seekers, that are the minority and unfortunately the rest of us get treated like second class citizens.

And that saddens me.

Why don't we have more research into pain relieving medication? And why are the meds so dadgum expensive? (I understand free markets...I was a business prof. I was being only somewhat serious.)

There has to be a better way.

And I still didn't catch why my latex allergy is a possible problem. Is it the binders used to make the tablets?

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exactly its a pretty stupid law. what is going on people cant even get pain meds, anxiety meds its crazy because of gerks who ruin it for everyone.

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Let's not attack BL! They are very helpful and misunderstandings happen.

How is everyone doing?

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Pain meds work for pain. Pain meds create dependency and/or addiction VERY QUICKLY. Its just a simple fact - opiates are dangerous. I can totally understand why a doc office would state right off the bat "no fibromyalgia..no pain meds" just to waste no ones time. Its not rude - it makes perfect sense considering the huge numbers of people looking for opiate prescriptions for pain that is mostly contrived. Ya.. I SAID IT !! People convince themselves they need opiates for different reasons and so many of them think they are SOOO SMART.. but they aren't (stupid people dont realize they're stupid - thats why stupidity is such an annoyance) and they get angry and frustrated that they are unable to convince doctors that they absolutely must have opiates. People who truly need opiate medication should not even have to ask - their conditions are clear and obvious. If we all could have unlimited access, we'd all be addicts, and many of us would OD and die. If you cant get a prescription but cant live without opiates..get on methadone maintenance.

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GunTotingGrandma, Tramadol is now a Schedule IV. But Schedule IV meds don't have the same laws as Schedule II meds. Although a Dr can require you to come in every 30 days and only give you a written prescription. But that is the drs choice and Not required by law.

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Gun, you are correct. Ultram has always been a narcotic but created to offset what they considered in the health care industry drug seekers. It is a mixed agonist antagonist; the second part can (and many physicians do not know this) reverse the potential of your straight agonists or opioids.

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LAW,

Is Portnoy still there?

I can do my own referral (am a professional nurse and was seeing the famous Dr. Tennant out in California until they busted out on us out of staters.)

I'm an ultra rapid opioid metabolizer and have not had proper care for almost 10 months and am so low on medication that I am now totally a crippled train wreck I've progressed to Central Pain Syndrome.

Thanks,
P450

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Lucky,

All opioids cause dental erosion and again it is a horrible drug for withdrawal and actually infiltrates your bones. If you think your doctor will outlive you or get busted find a methadone clinic. They will dose you every morning!

I don't know who you think is arrogant but pain clients need empowerment not devaluation.

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