Doctor In Richmond Va Who Will Prescribe Opiates For Severe Chronic Pain (Top voted first)

I have moderate to severe Degenerative Disc Disease of Cervical Spine with severe narrowing (stenosis) along with bulging and herniated discs with severe arthritis (osteo) also in cervical spine with boney spurs. I also have Fibromyalgia, Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome ad Chronic Fatigue. My pain management doc has done many different procedures, non giving much relief and no long term relief. She has told me there is nothing more she can do. So, I need a Primary Care Doctor who will take over writing my Morphine and Muscle Relaxer. My current Primary Care doctor said she trusted me totally but could not write RX for opiates. I need help. I will not be able to function without some pain meds. I live in Gen Allen, a Richmond, VA suburb. Please helpp. Thank you.

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Have been on opiates for 18 years for incredibly painful IBS and probably Chrons disease (it's been a while since I had a colonoscopy, but there is a Chrons blood panel now, and my number is off the charts). Have been seeing doc for 14 yrs-prescribes 240 30mg oxy and 6 10 mg methadone. But due to the incredible tolerance, it isn't even close to stopping pain.

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Hi... can you please share your doctor's name who is helping you with your pain by trusting you with pain meds? I really need help. Thanks so much.

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Mike-
Would you be willing to share the name of your doctor? And are you around/near Richmond VA? And Katharine, were you able to find a doctor?

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In need of a good pain doctor. In chronic pain same problems as everyone else. Please Please Please .... I need a doctor who will prescribe me the medication I really need to treat my problems. Please get back to me ASAP... Richmond or Northern Virginia

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Can you send mr name if doc?

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I am in the same boat as you and am looking for a pain management doc in the Richmnond area. Have you or anyone you know found anyone decent yet? I need to get an appointment by the end of November...

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Pleas Send Name Of Dr. I'veBeEn UnableToWalkOr Care ForMy Baby For 8 Months

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I'm new to this web site. How do I get replies if no one can see my email address? I am at the end of my rope. {edited for privacy}. Please someone respond to my message!! Thanks

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I am trying to find a new pain management doctor who will continue to cover my pain medications that help me so much with my pain management! I have polymyalgia rheumatica and numerous other health issues that I need meds for. Could you please share your doctor's name in the Richmond Va area? I would be most grateful! My email address is {edited for privacy}. Thank you :)

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Hello, Katharine! Sorry that you're so miserable, it's terrible for anyone to have to suffer.

However, under the new regulations that were enacted this year, no PCP is going to be able to prescribe you opiates for long-term chronic pain. They have been severely restricted on what they can prescribed, how much they can prescribe, why they can prescribe it and for how long they can prescribe it.

In order to continue getting them you'll need to have them prescribed from a pain management specialist.

Learn more Morphine details here.

Is there a different pain management specialist that your PCP can refer you to?

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New clinic opened in Richmond area. Good luck my fellow chronic pain patients!

hopepaincenters.org/our-clinic-locations.html

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Absolutely, I dont mind sharing at all...... I injured my back in 1998 and was with a PM Dr from 1998 until Dec 2014 after 2 failed back surgeries for a severe spinal cord decompression and spinal fusion from l3 -s1. My PM dr had to have surgery himself so it sent approx. 2000 patients out into the wind looking for a new PM dr to take over where he left off. I WAS on methadone 10 mg 6x a day and oxycodone 10mg/325 mg 4 x a day and I was SOOOO able to do life with the least amount of pain possible. Well, it took me a while to find a dr at all that was willing to give me the oxycodone alone. They all thought the methadone was for me to come off my "addiction" to the oxycodone. I explained it was actually being used as a great pain reliever that was a lot less expensive than the original oxycontin that my original dr wanted me to take with the oxycodone. Anyway, I had the WORST WITHDRAWLS OF MY LIFE WITH THAT METHADONE! I never want to see one again just in case this dr nightmare is to occur again when Dr bonner decides to retire or move or whatever...... so I go in for my first appt with dr bonner in April, he looked thru my chart from Advanced Ortho. and asked me what I was taking right then, I said nothing ... i had finish the "so called" 3 week taper off the methadone.... oh my gosh!!!!!!! So horrible, I thought I was going to die!!!!!!! and I had literally JUST FINISHED the taper off of the oxycodone the day before my appt with Dr Bonner and so he said ...... (and heres where I can see where he could have said something like what you heard him say about junkies and such...) he says great! Now that you are off the "dope" you wanna go back on it or would you be interested in the suboxone? I admit I was shocked that he put it that way.... but I said no sir I am in true severe chronic pain. I cant walk without a walker or crutches since ive come off the pain meds and I have no quality of life, my kids are watching their mom suffer daily and thats not fair to them and I am a human being and Iits not right to leave someone in such agony that they think about not wanting to live if living meant you have this kind of pain. My children are the ONLY REASON I didnt do something crazy like that. I said I would like to go back on the oxycodone 10mg and the oxycontin 3 x a day (I now have ins.that would pay for it now) but he was unwilling to do both at those doses he offered 2 oxycodone 10/325 and 2 oxycontin 15mg perday so I said can we do 4 oxycodone and 2 oxycontin and he said no lets try this out first and if it doesnt work out we will do something different next visit. Ultimately I chose the 4 oxycodone 10mg/325 and passed on the oxycontin. Well as happy as I was to have a dr at least give me the 4 oxycodone 10/325 per day inevitably I was still not as comfortable as I used to be. So in my appt 2 weeks ago he did as he promised and added the extended release medication. He is a straight shooter and asks a TON OF QUESTIONS to weed out the drug seekers. I think thats why he seems at times a bit arrogant or judgemental, but I have nothing to hide and I never failed a drug screen from my former drs office in over 17 years. I am happy so far with my care there, and his waiting area is small so you are sitting closely with other patients and they are very nice and I havent heard any negative chats about him or the office. I hope this helps out.

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Sorry to hear of your distress. I live with pain also. I go to Erika Young at Hugenot primary care. She is both a primary dr. as well as a pain mgmt doc. That is great for me, since I would have to pay $45 to see a specialist. I don't have a co-pay for a primary Dr visit. Dr. Young is very good & takes the time to listen to what to have to say. You can mention me when you call. Just say Lewis or "Gene"

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Bluebell, were you able to fine neone? I also know of several subutex/suboxone prescribing docs in richmond too.

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Subs anyone? My dr is taking new patients in richmond, va area. Email me {edited for privacy}

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I would like help seeing subs dr

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Can you send me ur dr's info please? I live outside of richmond and can't find a dr that will help me with pain. {edited for privacy}

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I also am in need of a new doc for my chronic back/spine issues. Have been under care of pain clinic/med. management doc for several years and very soon moving to Richmond area. Can anyone give me names of docs in area who will prescribe my meds, please. Oxycodone 15mg and ativan.

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I have sciatica, facet damage which makes me need ablasions about about every 8 months and a tilting and rotating pelvis. I am currently taking 1 1/2 10 mg lortab 2 times a day. I may be moving to Richmond VA. Does anyone know a DR that will keep me on my medication?

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Were you able to find a Dr. near Richmond that prescribes opiates for major bone pain?

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I have been taking ten mill hydrocodone 4 times a day for the past 20 yrs now I have chronic pain with a torn liberal an...

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I have a rare kind of polyneuropathy that affects my long nerves. I have had severe chronic pain for over 8 years. My pa...

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Doctor retiring and need a new doctor who will prescribe the pain meds for my back. I injured my lower back in a logging...

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I have Sciatica, Spondeliosis, Degenerative Disc Disease and Fibromyalgia in both my hips & legs, I have had 3 sets ...

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