Can someone please help me.

[ansleycapps]

I moved to SC last year. I started with a medical group for pain. I had no quality of life and had suffered many years that was until i started taking pain meds. I am able to work finally. I too have a disabled son that requires alot of lifting..Well when i started with this medical group that i have been seeing a year out of Hartsville SC.The young Dr honestly doesn't know me from one appt to the next. Oh too I have yet to sign a pain contract after a year and hearing each visit. i will get you to sign one. He has me on 5 oxy 30 mg 150 per month. and 30 mg adder-all twice per day. Ok ...Now he had saw me thee tomes gave me three months prescriptions to take home to fill for three months. I go in Dec. he has a call and never even looked at me nor what I wanted to show him. he hands me my month prescription see you in a month. so i called on Monday .the nurse said you have been cut. you broke your contract and didn't take a drug test before you left in DEC . Honestly he never ever mentioned a drug screening. i never got a certified letter. The dr too is on vacation. i am hurting plus sick from no medicine.The receptionist gave me a Dr number in the same building yet i was flagged by this Dr for failure of contract . So what can i do. I need a Dr, i need my medication and I have no contract and no drug screening ever ordered. Please what can i do.

[renwer]

I feel for you and the hoops one must jump through to get pain relieving drugs....IF you still can.  Unfortunately, one can rarely get them anymore and are condemned to live out their lives in unrelenting pain because some people become addicted and OD, and the rest of the population suffers for it.  I have watched  my mother live with chronic, debilitating back pain for 6 yrs, now at the point that she just wants to die, can't live with it anymore, tired of trying, tired of begging for help and being turned away because doctors don't dare perscribe.  Why in God's name do we have pain relieving drugs when the people who need them most cannot have them, while those who abuse them can get what they want from illegal drug peddlers, regardless of the severe restrictions on legal, legitimate prescriptions. And the lawmakers patted themselves on the back when they passed these terrible laws, congratulating themselves for the good they had done for society. One month of their suffering with chronic unrelenting pain, ONE MONTH, and things would change!

[renwer]

I didn't even realize what these pain centers are about.  We're live in a VERY  rural area, 220 miles from anywhere, and I don't think there's such a place even within that distance, never heard of them but doesn't sound like they're a walk in the pain-relief park either.  It's heartbreaking to watch someone you love suffer in pain when you know they could get at least enough help to function, but the d--- government decided they had a right to come between doctors and their patients, that,  with no medical training, they knew better how to practice medicine, they, without  being in the room or ever meeting the patient, should be the ones who decide who does and  (mostly) who does not get help....them and the equally vile insurance companies have taken over the medical profession.....right under our noses!  How did we get here?

[Hoosier_Carry]

Like you, I can't believe this is happening in America. I was let go by my pm doc for asking for an increase too many times. I had to self-detox with only one month's supply left. So I'm looking for another pain doc through the refferal of my new primary doc. I now take 1/4th of my script to stretch it out. The docs just don't care any more if you suffer or do yourself in it seems. My blood pessure went up and I gained 20lbs since my detox. Opiates helped lower my blood pressure besides relieving my pain so I could get up off this couch and do things. They just don't get it and just don't care with all of this glaring in their faces.

[backhurtz]

Asking for increases frequently tells the dr that pain management isn’t working for a patient.
Pain management isn’t about eliminating chronic pain- it is about reducing every day pain to a tolerable level. Huge difference.
Patients who request increases in dosages are sending the messsge that pain meds may not be the proper solution for them and other pain reduction treatments may be more effective.

[renwer]

@backhurtz - That is not news to anyone who suffers with chronic, debilitating pain (note the word "debilitating").  My mother has NO irrational, fantastical dreams of being pain free, she just wishes to FUNCTION.  If that's asking too much, if that somehow makes her "ineligible" for prescribed pain relief, then we, as a people, have lost all common sense and compassion for others!  I'm always amazed when people who don't suffer in this way or haven't watched a loved one suffer so seem to have superior wisdom on the topic.

[backhurtz]

I assure you I have years of ‘experience’ suffering debilitating pain and have endured my share of undermedicating, no medicating, and receiving meds, increases, decreases and empathize with the person suffering.
You seem to think I don’t.
When I try to take the time to explain why a dr or practice may not prescribe an increase or reduce meds- it’s not because I agree with the decision- it is to help the patient understand why that may have occurred and so they can figure out a better approach.
Certain behaviors or statements set off red flags for drs- Converting to a different opiate helps many patients get better overall relief when drs are opposed to increasing meds.

[earlgirl99]

Tell him you will hold him liable for any and all adverse effects you suffer due to this negligence...& pray. Good luck!

[cutoffidontthinkso]

Go up there and get your meds they will give it to you