Poster At The Doctors Office Today
In NC as of Jan 1 2018 a doctor can only give 5 days of pain meds. 7 days if he has surgery.
I do not know what happens if you need more i think you have to go to the doctor every 5 days.
I see a pain doctor every 27 days so she can write a prescription for me. Plus she gives me injections in my neck and back for arthritis.
Every 90 days i have the honor of taking a drug test.
My pain doctor told me that if i went to her today that she would turn me away because i take more medicine than the government wants me to take and the paperwork is to much.
I take 60mg of oxycodone and 60mg of oxycontin.
She told me the government does not want you to take over 60mg a day of pain meds.
The only people this law helps is drug dealers in my opinion.
Im lucky i have ct scans and mri that show that my left jaw joint is about 40% gone from radiation and my back and neck is all messed up so they know i am in pain but there are a lot of others who can not show or prove they hurt. So they have to take other ways to control their pain.[:(]
I do not know what happens if you need more i think you have to go to the doctor every 5 days.
I see a pain doctor every 27 days so she can write a prescription for me. Plus she gives me injections in my neck and back for arthritis.
Every 90 days i have the honor of taking a drug test.
My pain doctor told me that if i went to her today that she would turn me away because i take more medicine than the government wants me to take and the paperwork is to much.
I take 60mg of oxycodone and 60mg of oxycontin.
She told me the government does not want you to take over 60mg a day of pain meds.
The only people this law helps is drug dealers in my opinion.
Im lucky i have ct scans and mri that show that my left jaw joint is about 40% gone from radiation and my back and neck is all messed up so they know i am in pain but there are a lot of others who can not show or prove they hurt. So they have to take other ways to control their pain.[:(]
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I think its a dumb law and will send people that need pain meds to "other" sources like heroin or Chinese fentynal.
The other bad thing about the law is it will create an ever larger black-market for pain meds.0 -
Yup street meds. Drug dealers don't ask for ID, medical insurance or make you fill out paper work. 0 -
Isn't that just governing what the doctor can personally hand out in his office? S/He can still write a script for you to fill at the pharmacy, no? 0 -
Everything we ever outlawed has made crooks rich.
quote:Originally posted by Sam06
I think its a dumb law and will send people that need pain meds to "other" sources like heroin or Chinese fentynal.
The other bad thing about the law is it will create an ever larger black-market for pain meds.0 -
Government controlled healthcare.[xx(] 0 -
Liquor sales will go up. 0 -
My doc and many more dumped all pain med patients on the pain clinics several years ago . I was one of them
biggest complaint I hear in waiting room(s) they start cutting back on what you take so your in pain more with less meds
1st thing they tried with me also cutting my pain meds in half I had to argue to get them back where I was but they stll cut it by about 10 pills a month in the end
I have to go every month ( $30 co-pay [:(!]) they ask how I am any changes hears your scrip for 28 days and every 4 or 5 th visit have to do a pee test to make sure I am taking what I am suppose to and nothing else mixed in
my family doc I went in about once a year maybe twice called in the scrip those days are long gone
I truly think they are forcing some to go to the street to make up the difference in what was taken away increasing the drug problem not helping it
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
Isn't that just governing what the doctor can personally hand out in his office? S/He can still write a script for you to fill at the pharmacy, no?0 -
Well, we may get medical marijuana so there is hope. 0 -
When I was in the hospital post-surgery, I had a morphine pump. I could dose myself with morphine every so often.
Morphine made me sick and I threw up everything I had eaten a for a month before. When I finished throwing up, I had the dry heaves.
With a 9" incision in my gut, stapled together, heaving and yacking were the last things I wanted to do, so I had to stop the morphine. I even had the nurse take the machine out. Fortunately, the pain wasn't unbearable and it got better as time passed.
I can't imagine what it might be like to have to take pain meds all the time.0 -
quote:Poster At The Doctors Office Today
So what was the poster about?0 -
In the 1970's the government started its "War on Drugs" . It has spent billions of our tax payers money and the War on Drugs" has been a complete failure.
So now they are finding a way to win, and that is to take away the legal drugs that chronic pain sufferers need to be comfortable. Thanks for nothing Uncle Sam, as once again you are being run by folks who could care less about the people they are suppose to serve.
Yes, I get a whole 60mg of oxycodone a day and I just got drug tested this week as a surprise to my doctor visit. I won't bother to tell you what this all means for me. I certainly know I don't count when it comes to government policy making.0 -
Has the government ever done anything well??? 0 -
Isn't that just governing what the doctor can personally hand out in his office? S/He can still write a script for you to fill at the pharmacy, no?
my doctor wrote me a script for 90 pills and the pharmacy would only give me 200 -
Here is the Law in Texas...Apparently the physician controls the use of meds for his or her patients.
Texas Administrative Code
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TITLE 22 EXAMINING BOARDS
PART 9 TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD
CHAPTER 170 PAIN MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER A PAIN MANAGEMENT
RULE ?170.3 Minimum Requirements for the Treatment of Chronic Pain
A physician's treatment of a patient's pain will be evaluatedby considering whether it meets the generally accepted standard ofcare and whether the following minimum requirements have been met:
(1) Evaluation of the patient.
(A) A physician is responsible for obtaining a medicalhistory and a physical examination that includes a problem-focusedexam specific to the chief presenting complaint of the patient.
(B) The medical record shall document the medical historyand physical examination. In the case of chronic pain, the medicalrecord must document:
(i) the nature and intensity of the pain;
(ii) current and past treatments for pain;
(iii) underlying or coexisting diseases and conditions;
(iv) the effect of the pain on physical and psychologicalfunction;
(v) any history and potential for substance abuse ordiversion; and
(vi) the presence of one or more recognized medicalindications for the use of a dangerous or scheduled drug.
(C) Prior to prescribing dangerous drugs or controlledsubstances for the treatment of chronic pain, a physician must considerreviewing prescription data and history related to the patient, ifany, contained in the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program describedby ??481.075, 481.076, and 481.0761 of the Texas Healthand Safety Code and consider obtaining at a minimum a baseline toxicologydrug screen to determine the presence of drugs in a patient, if any.If a physician determines that such steps are not necessary priorto prescribing dangerous drugs or controlled substances to the patient,the physician must document in the medical record his or her rationalefor not completing such steps.0 -
The way my wifes pain management doc explained it to us is,,, New Patients can only get a 5 day supply,,after the new patent has past a certain time "yet to be disclosed" then he can prescribe them 30 day supplies ,,existing patients would not apply to this,,just initial meds to new patients. Reasoning behind this is if someone is prone to addiction or abuse of the meds it normally shows up in the first treatments and the Doctor can catch it early instead of 60-90 days down the road 0 -
Guys relax, the government will take care of you. Don't fight it. Just sit back, relax and do as they say. After all they know what's better for you than you do. That's why they're here.
Besides there's no choice.
Long story short I was in the hospital a few years ago. After surgery I was in a lot of pain. The nurse called the doc to get me some pain meds. When she hung up she told me the doc said no because he didn't want me to become addicted. So there I laid and suffered because of the drug addicts.
Don't you love this system.[:(!]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Hunter Mag
Guys relax, the government will take care of you. Don't fight it. Just sit back, relax and do as they say. After all they know what's better for you than you do. That's why they're here.
Besides there's no choice.
Long story short I was in the hospital a few years ago. After surgery I was in a lot of pain. The nurse called the doc to get me some pain meds. When she hung up she told me the doc said no because he didn't want me to become addicted. So there I laid and suffered because of the drug addicts.
Don't you love this system.[:(!]
After my last surgery, they were going to hook me up to the morphine machine. I am not a fan of how morphine makes me feel, and said I would prefer the pain to the morphine. They then hooked up a bag of I/V Tylenol.
Perhaps it was just my unique situation, but the Tylenol worked about a gazillion time better than the morphine and kept my head clear to boot.0
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