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re: Do doctors not prescribe pain pills anymore?
Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:40 pm to tidalmouse
Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:40 pm to tidalmouse
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,Norco,Hydrocodone,has been moved to a Schedule 2 med.
yep... now we'll see a bunch of Ultram or Ultracet, just because they can call and fax those in with no problem... and that shite doesn't do much for anyone, so patients with true pain are gonna be shite out of luck....
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Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:41 pm to supadave3
Doctors aren't making a habit of prescribing narcotics anymore because of all the additional legislation. It's not worth it if they have a busy practice to see the patients once a month for $30 and have to do all this monitoring and extra paperwork. Same reason a lot of doctors stopped prescribing adderall
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Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:41 pm to DontCare
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either you're full of shite or she is. doctors do not prescribe medications according to health insurance company guidelines, unless they're being considerate of the patient's financial limitations. if a doctor prescribes a medication to you and your insurance company doesn't cover it, you pay out of pocket.
I'm just relaying what my MIL told me. FWIW I never heard her say anything about this being an issue her health insurance. From what I gathered she made it sound like it was federal regs that are not allowing their regular MD to continue to prescribe him.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:43 pm to ginms
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Chiropractic time
Nah. Yoga (I know...gay), stretching, just moving around more, will help more than anything.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:43 pm to TreyAnastasio
No
Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:45 pm to chRxis
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yep... now we'll see a bunch of Ultram or Ultracet, just because they can call and fax those in with no problem... and that shite doesn't do much for anyone, so patients with true pain are gonna be shite out of luck....
They gave me ultram at first, and it made me feel like shite. Took it 4 days and went 2 without it. Those 2 days without were hell and in wasn't bc the pain.
Switched to hydrocodone and had no issues. Took it for a week and got off it with no bad side effects.
This post was edited on 9/24/14 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 9/24/14 at 4:47 pm to thesoccerfanjax
Chiropractors can cause more damage
Depending on the reason for the pinched nerve, I have a bad facet joint, physical therapy is the best thing. I did massage and tens but med-x was the best part. It strengthens your neck muscles
Depending on the reason for the pinched nerve, I have a bad facet joint, physical therapy is the best thing. I did massage and tens but med-x was the best part. It strengthens your neck muscles
Posted on 9/24/14 at 5:51 pm to Commandeaux
I got some percoset last Friday, so the answer is yes. I had to have surgery on my shoulder to get them though, so there is that.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 5:57 pm to Commandeaux
The best thing to do is put in writing that you need something for pain control. Docs are more likely to order something when it's in writing and part of your chart. I would email him/her and be adamant that you need pain meds!
Good luck
Good luck
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:08 pm to Commandeaux
Tell your doctor you're having a sickle cell crisis. They can't refuse you.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:19 pm to Commandeaux
If we actually had free market healthcare we wouldn't need a permission slip to feel better
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:27 pm to thesoccerfanjax
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Nah. Yoga (I know...gay), stretching, just moving around more, will help more than anything.
Yoga is the shite. If it's not part of your workout routine, it should be.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:35 pm to Poulet
Pain management is the answer. I can't imagine there arent places in LA that have clinics.
I am almost there myself. Big stigma here in Houston as well. This is a pill mill capital. My back fricking hurts all the time. Off and on. Just layed up. One or two days at a time. I hoard scrips. I have a dental scrip from early this year that I am still milking. GP is the Toradol king. Then just motrin.
I don't want to be "Oxy guy" and I don't want to be back surgery and steroid injection guy. I want to slowly lose weight and improve with therapy and then YES GOD FORBID a Vicodin now and again when it is bad.
DEA out of one side of its mouth clamps down on Norco etc, but then will be rolling out Zohydro shortly. Which is up to a FORTY MG Norco tablet!!! Just with the tylenol taken out. BUT it will be a top tier prescription commanding a top tier price for something that has been around for 40 years.
I am almost there myself. Big stigma here in Houston as well. This is a pill mill capital. My back fricking hurts all the time. Off and on. Just layed up. One or two days at a time. I hoard scrips. I have a dental scrip from early this year that I am still milking. GP is the Toradol king. Then just motrin.
I don't want to be "Oxy guy" and I don't want to be back surgery and steroid injection guy. I want to slowly lose weight and improve with therapy and then YES GOD FORBID a Vicodin now and again when it is bad.
DEA out of one side of its mouth clamps down on Norco etc, but then will be rolling out Zohydro shortly. Which is up to a FORTY MG Norco tablet!!! Just with the tylenol taken out. BUT it will be a top tier prescription commanding a top tier price for something that has been around for 40 years.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:36 pm to Jim Rockford
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Tell your doctor you're having a sickle cell crisis. They can't refuse you.
They would tell you to go to the emergency room.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:38 pm to Darth_Vader
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I'm not really sure. She just told us that due to OBamacare regs the doctor that he'd been going to for years now could not prescribe his pain meds and instead he now has to go to a pain management clinic.
That's bullshite. That's what we say to dump problem pt's we don't feel need the meds they want.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:41 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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DEA out of one side of its mouth clamps down on Norco etc, but then will be rolling out Zohydro shortly. Which is up to a FORTY MG Norco tablet!!! Just with the tylenol taken out. BUT it will be a top tier prescription commanding a top tier price for something that has been around for 40 years.
And with hydrocodone becoming schedule II we will be watched for our number of scripts more closely. It will "look better" to bump someone up to oxycodone and have them half a pill and last longer than to give the hydro's now that they are treated the same. They ARE NOT the same. It will backfire and you will see more potent and addicting meds hitting the streets.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:43 pm to SmackoverHawg
Then another regulation will come out making oxy- and
-morphone products C 1.5
-morphone products C 1.5
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:45 pm to Commandeaux
Half of ER's at hospitals are filled with people that are pill heads....they say they have pain and immediately say they are allergic to the weak stuff......... everytime
Posted on 9/24/14 at 6:49 pm to Robin Masters
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They can write it but most won't for long due to their addictive nature. Not if but when you get hooked. Lots of guidelines that most docs don't won't to navigate. Too much risk with zero upside to have patients on long terms opioid treatment.
Not true. Most people use the meds correctly. Only a few seekers cause the problem. We are punishing the majority that take their meds responsibly to restrict access to the few dipshits. And this will not change jack shite except to make it more expensive on the street and make heroin a cheaper alternative.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 7:06 pm to Commandeaux
You need to see a neurologist.
ETA: 5 years ago I had a cervical nerve rood compression (pinched nerve in neck). The first four doctors didn't believe I was in pain (definitive diagnosis was not available at the time). The first neurologist I saw said my pain couldn't be that bad because I wasn't rolling around on the floor. I fired him. The second neuro prescribed pain meds and muscle relaxants, since by then the diagnosis was definitive. Surgery a month later, woke up with no pain and been pain free since then. Some doc a are just hard arses. The whole process took five months. I was suicidal while in pain. I will never go through that again.
ETA: 5 years ago I had a cervical nerve rood compression (pinched nerve in neck). The first four doctors didn't believe I was in pain (definitive diagnosis was not available at the time). The first neurologist I saw said my pain couldn't be that bad because I wasn't rolling around on the floor. I fired him. The second neuro prescribed pain meds and muscle relaxants, since by then the diagnosis was definitive. Surgery a month later, woke up with no pain and been pain free since then. Some doc a are just hard arses. The whole process took five months. I was suicidal while in pain. I will never go through that again.
This post was edited on 9/24/14 at 7:14 pm
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