Doctors Willing To Prescribe Pain Medication Spartanburg Sc Area (Page 2) (Top voted first)

Buldging disk in lower back and also broke my L2 vertebrae in 2006 pain is intolerable

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Bob, Donna, and Jo, I have been through a lot of people to help me find another Pain Mgmt Physician but one that cares about you and not just pen and paper. If you choose to, you will need to have all Mri's, Up to date (last 3 to five years). A PCP for a referral and maybe travel 45 minutes to the Gastonia, Charlotte NC areas. Gaston Pain Provider's in Gastonia are great, Carolina Pain Mgmt Clinic in Charlotte are good, Laudenium Medical in Charlotte is great, Charlotte Pain Clinic and Metrolina Pain in Charlotte NC are all Clinics that basically just get you back to what works for you in past. But never a guarantee. Some do back ground checks, monthly pill counts and U/A's at each visit. Cash only at Gastonia, Metrolina, and Laudenium. Not sure about Carolina, or Charlotte Pain . But I know that you have to be able to provide evidence that you have been treated before and the notes of the last pain doctor. Too many people are sharing and selling so that really is the main reason for the documentation and back ground checks. All these usually write after first visit with the exception of Charlotte and Carolina. Just Google Pain Mgmt in Charlotte NC. Also another is South East Pain at CMC Hospital. They were very helpful in getting me back to my regular medication. It's hard for anyone to guarantee that they will write. But from my experience and knowledge of others. These all are good and how I found out was I talked to my Pharmacist. I have been through a series of events and I need certain amount of medications to get me through the day. I asked her if she would provide me with a list of Dr's in my area that wrote what I was getting. She took her pen and wrote me a list of Dr's that she knew that wrote the medication that I needed. And it paid off. I had my Primary Care refer me to 2 of the 5. And after first one I cancel the other appt. That's been 3 years ago and since he left the Clinic and open his on. Taking only a hand full with him. So try these. They will help you out. Pain is awful especially when it's not noticeable and you are around healthy people. No one or no two of us handles pain the same way. So each person is tolerable to different levels. I am happy to help. Hope you get the right Dr as it might take one or two tries. I am a people person so I can get along with about anyone. But I have been through a series of Dr's that only care about the money and doesn't really care how your daily dealings are. Well good luck with your hunt for Pain Relief.

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have 5 bulging in my lower back. From what I understand, you have to go to your regular doctor and have him refer you to a pain clinic. It kind of sucks but it's the only way to get pain meds anymore because so many people abuse them. Hope that helps you. Naproxen will take out some of the swelling which will help also if you don't have heart problems. Maybe you can. Try some aleve. That's the over the counter name

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Hi. I just had a total hip replacement in Gastonia and have 5 bulging discs in my lower back the doc will stop prescribing me pain meds in 3 weeks and send me to a pain clinic. Those docs r really good. Just wanted to say thanks for posting about the pain clinic in Gastonia. I didn't know about that one. From what I hear, not many people like the one in Shelby

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I live in Spartanburg SC. I am from VT, but have lived here for 10 years. I've been in Pain Management treatment for 15 years. I am on a 75mcg patch, 3- 30mg morphine ir, 4- 20mg baclofen, etc, etc a day. This is a step down. Prior to the Patch, I was on 16mg of Hydromorphone ER (Dilaudid ER) a day. Yes, I'm all f****d up. It'd take a lot of space and be boring to explain. Suffice to say a trained Pain Management Doc wouldn't be prescribing this stuff unless something serious was going on! Anyway...

These meds have become a gilded cage! They DON'T take away pain. Let's just get that out there. Opiates numb out/shut off the part of your brain that panics and tells you to "Kick a$$ or RUN!!!" when something is causing you EXTREME PAIN. In that way, they also take away your motivation to rehab yourself: look at laser surgery, disc replacement, pain psychology- any number of things you might do if your PANIC was relieved and your brain not tricked by opiates. SOME people function brilliantly using opiates because the effect seems to remain very narrow and specific. Their basic MOTIVATION remains intact. Others of us become debilitated "Couch Zombies". The numbing has spilled over into ALL of MY LIFE. Due to my condition(s) it was easy to get disability. I have felt no drive to rehab myself back to work, despite loving my job. I am emotionally disconnected from my husband and my children. I feel very little about anything- except a wave of pain for what I'm missing and some desperation. I want to be myself again. I WANT to feel...even if I'm a 9 on the pain scale instead of a 6.

When I wanted to wean down on my pain meds in VT, it was no trouble at all. I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist, the type of doc whose med school training SPECIALIZES their knowledge to rehab, recovery and pain management. He just asked me if I wanted Methadone or Suboxone to work with! I chose Methadone. It knocked me out and had such brutal side effects I quit the entire effort.

Here I am in SC, and asked my PM Doc about whether they wean people down on Suboxone/Methadone. He acted like I'd slapped him! He said, "That stuff is only for addicts. Nobody prescribes that down here!"

So, for anyone in the Greenville-Spartanburg area, is it true that "NOBODY PRESCRIBES THAT DOWN HERE" for pain management? That would make me really sad because I'm feeling SO trapped in opiate hell!

Thanks Folks
Mya

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I live in Spartanburg and am looking for a doctor. What was the name of the pain management clinic?

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if you have had surgery, get your surgeon to refer you to pain management along with all reports and x-rays, also any mri's.. any and anything you've got to give.

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edgewise1, good luck. Maybe I'll speak with them. Careful with those Tramadols though. They nearly killed me and left me with permanent nerve damage in my right leg and hand. My doctor gave em to me even though I was on Lexapro at the time (SSRI's don't mix well with Tramadol). lot of controversy over that drug recently as doctors are writing scripts for it like crazy. Lot of deaths, poisonings. Make sure you don't mix them with one of the billions of other things out there that they shouldn't be taken with. Go on the web and search for drug interactions. That drug even just by itself has caused some people serious problems. Talk to a GOOD pharmacist about what to watch out for when taking it. Read everything you can about the drug and learn the signs of poisonings/interactions. My Dr and pharmacist dropped the ball and never caught the problem they get trained, paid and paid well to catch. I'm right handed and am learning to be left handed now thanks to that little "oops".

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I know a place in charleston area

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Jeslin, I live in Charleston and go to MUSC pain management. I've had epidurals, facet injections, transforaminal injections. Now they are talking about a spinal cord stimulator (NO!!!) I go to physical therapy, stretch, pray, cry.
I'm ready to try meds that will work. Who do you suggest?

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Jeslin, who do you suggest in Charleston? I can't even walk upright and haven't slept in days

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Drs in Augusta Ga and Sc,for pain management and severe chronic pain

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Go to any Methadone Clinic they are very easy to get in and will get your dose as high as you need and its like 13dollars a day but well worth not being in pain methadone is a c2so there you go tell these so called pain management clinics to go f there self

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Not much response on this thread but I thought I'd update... Tried a few more "second opinions" and received VERY terse and rude treatment by all pain management doctors I've visited with. I've been upfront and honest. Told them that my current doctor won't treat my pain, spend time finding solutions, and refusing to prescribe anything but placebos (prescription strength Ibuprofen or worse, SSRI's and other anti-depressants, promising they work wonders for their other patients) All while taking multiple UA's charged to my insurance at 15-30 times the actual cost (saw one UA charged for over $1,300). They don't even look at my MRI scans showing massive trauma to my lumbar region with several causes for moderate to severe chronic pain. Just in and out as fast as they can, treat me rudely and never stop to listen after asking how I'm doing,write a script for something I could get over the counter, order a UA, then off to the next patient while I'm still just beginning to explain my symptoms.

Medical care has gone from 20th century to the 17th century in just a few months. One nurse suggested I take anti-histamine to help relax me when I'm in severe pain. I told her why not just a shot of whiskey? She said that was a good idea. So....no more monitored, insurance covered mild narcotic painkillers that allow me to live a semi-functional life and instead stay home drinking and taking Aleve, Tylenol, and booze until my liver fails. Apparently that counts as "pain management" now. Spoke with my primary care provider about this... she took pity and prescribed 0.5 mg Xanax for when I have panic attacks when the pain becomes so severe I have to punch holes in the wall and slam my head into a door to make the pain go somewhere other than my lower back for just a short time.

If things don't change soon I will have to end the pain the permanent way, with a bang. I'll go find a quiet, remote spot where I'll never be found so no one will have to be bothered to clean up the mess or pay for disposal. Sorry folks, America has fallen to the bottom of the pack in healthcare among all first-world countries. F*** you USA. Greed has finally taken a step too far. Fire your doctors. Fire your insurance company. Burn you're bills. screw em. good-bye and good luck.

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Posters,

It is the FDA 120 mg. morphine equivalent and anyone stupid enough to start drinking and threaten on this forum to commit suicide needs immediate psychiatric in patient help.

This is your president causing this and it will take several years of a regular president to rectify the mess he made. Due to this raging a hole we all suffer, some will die.

I posted a list of physicians who may help various states on the main trending post for 'physician who will prescribe vicodin' it seems to get the most posters. I do post regularly on all the top posts but tomorrow hope to be seeing a physician who does write. Due to my complexity after my physician in Houston of 10 years died I had to travel to California for 5 years. I stick with one doctor but the BEST in America dumped us knowing that in our case for he only handles RARE cases that we can die.

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