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Pain management clinic

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited September 2011 in General Discussion
My cancer doctor wants me to go to one anybody go to one and what should i expect? Will they take me off of oxycontin and oxycodone?
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,026 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dav1965
    anybody go to one



    I have been married 20 years, does that count? Don
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just remember it is your pain, they do not know what you are going thru they think they do but they don't.

    They are there to get you off the pain meds, but should not take you off them.

    So if what they are doing does not work let them and your doctor know.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    There are real problems here in Florida with the Pain Managment Clinics, seems that they are Drug Dispensers..
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im satisfied with my doctor. He wants to see if there are better options for me.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    This problem is not just in Florida.. If it is a ligitimate Clinic. OK however they are few and far between. Read about the problem here.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-02-23-pill-mill_N.htm
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    Dave,

    Dammit, ask your Doctor.

    You live in NC. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting 3 top notch MD's.

    What you're doing now isn't working as well as you'd like. Give this new tack a try and report back to your primary. If the pain clinic isn't giving you relief (like the doosh who sat on your leg after the first surgery) fire them.

    I believe you to be one of the stronger men I've ever encountered.

    You are well grounded. You remind me (and a bunch of other folk on this forum) about what is really important.

    ASK THE DOCTOR WHO IS REFERRING YOU what you should expect. And if you get different than that, let him know it isn't working.

    We can't even decide if .45 or 9mm is better.

    I (and others) will support your decsions and back you emotionally 100%. But at the end of the day, we don't know what the hell we're talking about.

    Trust your doctor, or find one you can.
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  • SpartacusSpartacus Member Posts: 14,415
    edited November -1
    dav,
    more and more docs are being scrutinized for their narcotic prescription. doesn't matter much if the patient is in dire need to continue daily activities or not.
    too many docs have made a lot of money prescribing narcotics to folks who don't really need them.
    a lot of these medicines end up for sale on the streets.
    i have some cancer and other patients on chronic narcotics, and they NEED to have the meeds.
    unfortunately, i have to justify the prescriptions to the idiot bean counters in the state offices.
    never had a problem, but every six months or so i send my patients to a pain management doc. to add credence to my treatments. more often than not, they INCREASE the amount of meeds.
    keeps the patients appropriately treated and gets the state off my back.

    just my experience.
    tom
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Spartacus
    dav,
    more and more docs are being scrutinized for their narcotic prescription. doesn't matter much if the patient is in dire need to continue daily activities or not.
    too many docs have made a lot of money prescribing narcotics to folks who don't really need them.
    a lot of these medicines end up for sale on the streets.
    i have some cancer and other patients on chronic narcotics, and they NEED to have the meeds.
    unfortunately, i have to justify the prescriptions to the idiot bean counters in the state offices.
    never had a problem, but every six months or so i send my patients to a pain management doc. to add credence to my treatments. more often than not, they INCREASE the amount of meeds.
    keeps the patients appropriately treated and gets the state off my back.

    just my experience.
    tom



    ok, so some of us DO know something.
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    I can't help you until you stop referring to oxycontin and oxycodone as if they're different drugs.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,026 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by KEVD18
    I can't help you until you stop referring to oxycontin and oxycodone as if they're different drugs.


    You could have told us that years ago, maybe now you will go away. Don
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kevd18 oxycontin and oxycodone ARE different drugs oxycontin is time release and oxycontin is fast relief. Trust me i know. I take i oxycontin in the mourning and oxycodone when i hurt during the day. After 30 minuets or so the pain is gone.
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    the active ingredient in both is oxycodone((5R,9R,13S,14S)-4,5#945;-epoxy-14-hydroxy-3-methoxy-17-methylmorphinan-6-one). one comes immediate release, one comes in a coating and binder that delays the release over time; but the active ingredient is the same. and for the purposes of discussing them here, referring to them seperatley is redundant. you wouldnt say you take tylenol and acetaminophen.

    sorry, unnecessary redundancy is just a pet peeve of mine.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You are right but its applied differently.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Like saying all 357s are the same
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  • Alan RushingAlan Rushing Member Posts: 8,805 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
    Dave,

    Dammit, ask your Doctor.

    You live in NC. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting 3 top notch MD's.

    What you're doing now isn't working as well as you'd like. Give this new tack a try and report back to your primary. If the pain clinic isn't giving you relief (like the doosh who sat on your leg after the first surgery) fire them.

    I believe you to be one of the stronger men I've ever encountered.

    You are well grounded. You remind me (and a bunch of other folk on this forum) about what is really important.

    ASK THE DOCTOR WHO IS REFERRING YOU what you should expect. And if you get different than that, let him know it isn't working.

    We can't even decide if .45 or 9mm is better.

    I (and others) will support your decsions and back you emotionally 100%. But at the end of the day, we don't know what the hell we're talking about.

    Trust your doctor, or find one you can.

    David - for real . . .

    bigoutside, covers all the bases here very well. I could try all night long and would NOT be able to state what he has here any better, nor as clearly and concisely.

    (I agree completely at a minimum of least 110%!) [^]
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know 2 guys who use the pain management clinic and from what they told me is that they signed a release of liability to where the person writing the prescription for whatever they were needing for their pain can not be held liable. Same meds their doctor gave them, just in the amounts that the patient felt like they needed.
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    Wife has a lot of pain in lower back. Drs operated and installed one of those neural stimulators in her back w/remote. Whole procedure cost $43K according to Univ Hosp bill. Dr said it was a success. l really cant see much difference in her [V].

    Having experienced pain due to wounds/traumas l can say l dont like pain. Wen having this pain l could care less what or how much meds l took. l just wanted it to STOP.

    My heart goes out to victims of constant. lf l everget to a place in life where l become a victim l will take a S&W pill [xx(]
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