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Why is it that doctors are so scared to prescribe people that are legitamately suffering from severe pain anything that will help? I asked my PCP (after i got a diagnosis by a neurologist of BTN) just for a handful of Lortabs but they straight up refused. I asked for something for the pain and they wanted to give me only tramadol, which doesn't work. I told them that and then they were only wanting to give me Neurontin! Which, also does nothing helpful for me. It sucks, but the only things that work are Norco's (if i take enough of the 10mg's) and Oxycodone in it's various forms! I wish i could just take Tylenol and the pain goes away...or even Tegretal or Neurontin. Alas, they don't even touch the pain.

I am going to make a personal visit to my Primary tomorrow morning because i heard that a script of Oxycontin and/or Roxicodone cannot be called in to the pharmacy, and i HAVE TO have a written script to hand over. I don't understand why, it's weird to me. Then again, it's weird to me that someone with THE MOST painful condition in all of medicine is treated like a junky when they ask for pain meds that WILL WORK for them. If anyone should receive Oxycodone it's TN sufferers. They probably will just turn me down again...but it's worth a shot. I'm just sooo desperate and i feel helpless and hopeless!

Which, i used to smoke Cannabis to help with my neuropathies, it was when i lived in California and was prescribed under the guise of a Physician. My pediatrician, actually. He was the one who saw me since i was a little kid and was able to see the progression of my condition worsen over the years until it's become what is so extreme today. I've moved to Oklahoma as of recent and I have since stopped smoking weed since i failed the UA last week when i went into Pain Management. My God! The pain is so excruciating without it! Even with these Norco's and Tramadols i don't have nearly the amount of pain relief as when i'm ingesting Cannabis. I just don't know what to do anymore...if i get two more positives for Cannabis then i'm going to be kicked out of the program. So, i can't smoke anymore weed. I'm fine with that, but ONLY if i can get adequate pain relief from what the doctor's are prescribing me...which, as of right now, it's NOT cutting it!

Please, everyone wish me luck tomorrow! I'm going to need it!

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Hi Christopher, was wondering how your appt. went. I shouldn’t be nosey like that but you had said you were going to your Primary and was just wondering if he/she was able to help you. I truly hope so! :slight_smile:

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No, it’s cool…They told me that i will have to wait to get back into PM and they are refusing to do anything for me.

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Aww, Christopher, thats so not right! Why in the hell does it have to be so hard to get the meds that we all know work?? I'm so disgusted about that fact and I just know I'll want to take that attitude in with me Friday. But I can't since I need to play their game this first visit......and I'll play it this time. ; )

Well I hope You are doing ok regardless. Wish there was something I could do!

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Christopher,

In case you cannot tell by all of the rave reviews I have given your writings and responses, you have an advocate in me, and I see things AGREE WITH YOU WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (did I put enough exclamation points after that, I don't think the screen could hold enough, but I will put some more for effect!!!!!!!! . . . . .!!!!!!)

You have hit on the very subject which is nearest to my heart with regards to the treatment of this illness. It is a travesty that we are not being given what works, and are left to suffer in this way. As for me, Cannibus never worked.

What finally has my pain, for the most part, under control is 30 mg. MS Contin x 3, 15 mg. x 2 Roxicodone (for breakthrough pain, but I always end up needing them everyday), 10 mg. Diazepam x 4-5, and I take Neurontin (not that I know it does a lot) 600 mg. x 3 - all daily.

Being a Christian, I have to give all of the glory to God that I finally found a compassionate Pain Management Clinic professional to HELP ME!!!!!! However, even upon my first visit, with a far less understanding physician, I was given 3 5 mg. Hydrocodone per day!

Wow. This is, disturbingly enough, the 2nd time I have heard, lately, of a TN patient being turned away from a Pain Clinic without any opiates!!!!!! What the ****????

Ok, like I've said before, the healthcare profession nicknames this "The Suicide Disease", then refuses to TREAT THE PAIN????? I hope lawsuits from the families of every single person lost to what I consider MALPRACTICE and medical NEGLIGENCE, on their part for not using OPIATES, if OPIATES are what work to manage this pain, buzz around their heads like wasps!!! I hope lawsuits rain down upon the clinics like a thunderstorm from everyone who has had a loved one who has lost employment, their children, their marriage, or their lives (from their families) upon the supposed "healthcare professionals" who turn them away with what they know DOESN'T WORK TO EASE THEIR PAIN!

IT'S DISGUSTING!!! I hope lawyers take them. I hope they are won. I hope these doctors are no longer allowed to practice medicine!

Someone will probably come along and tell me why a lawyer wouldn't touch it. Perhaps they wouldn't, but one can dream!

(think this matter makes me a big anger, just a little????)

Yes, the BEST OF LUCK (and prayers sent) to you, tomorrow.

We need help, and sometimes that help requires pain pills! Why do they not all get it? I don't know.

You can bet if they had to try on one of our faces for a day, they would be fast to have one of their colleagues put the pen to the prescription pad and write out something like Dilaudid, Opana, Methadone, Oxycontin, or Morphine at lightning speed!

I'm riled! Yes, Victoria has it correct. "THAT'S SO NOT RIGHT"!

Stef

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Oh, I see you already had your appointment. It's not cool. It's not cool at all.

I think you need a new GP and a referral to another Pain Clinic.