Do pain management doctors usually call in more pain meds?

October 18th, 2009 | by Michael |
pain management
supermomof4boys asked:


If you had to end up taking more than what was prescribed per day because your other medicine wasn’t working or do they treat you like a drug addict?

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  1. 3 Responses to “Do pain management doctors usually call in more pain meds?”

  2. By Leah on Oct 23, 2009 | Reply

    It really depends on your drug history and relationship with your doctor. For example, I never ask for pain meds unless I really need them, heck half the time the doctor offers them to me I say no. When I really do need them and a refill the doctor never hesitates to give them to me because given my history of not taken them shows I will not abuse them. I have a friend who goes to the same doctor and the doctor rarely gives him pain pills because he is ALWAYS asking for them and has always gone through them too quickly, which is a warning sign of abuse. So in point I really think it depends on your history and relationship with the Doctor as I said before

  3. By Jill B on Oct 25, 2009 | Reply

    If you go to a pain management clinic, the contract you signed is very specific that you will only take what they prescribe and how they prescribe it. If you can take 4 a day and end up taking 6, they will most likely treat you like an addict. I’m not trying to be mean, this is just the experiences I’ve heard about. They say if you were having more pain, you should have told us last month, or at the very least, called us on the days you were having more pain and took more of the medicine. If you just show up at this month’s appt and ran out early without calling them when you did this, they will most likely treat you as an addict. It’s even possible with the contract you signed that they might terminate your services with them.
    I do not have a very high opinion of pain clinics. I think they have people go there for 6 months to a year or longer, get people mentally and physically addicted to the pain medicine and then they drop you with usually no warning. Now you are a drug addict with no place to go. I’d get out of there asap. Best of luck to you.

  4. By Rachel T on Oct 28, 2009 | Reply

    You ask a lot of questions about narcotic meds, I had noticed. Sounds to me like you have an addiction problem. And yes, eventually, your pain doctor is going to figure this out. You have asked questions about Tylenol 3, Vicodin, Percocet, and Lyrica, all in the last 6 months, supposedly for a fractured rib that did not heal right and now has nerve damage. Additionally, you had lower back pain for several months too before this fractured rib thing. If you really had nerve damage, Neurontin or Lyrica would have helped. I would be willing to bet that you have no pain at all. It is people like you that make it hard for people who actually have chronic pain to get treated. Get off the junk. And trust me, if I had any idea where you lived and who was your doctor, I would send them all of these posts just to let them know that you are a drug seeking pill popper. I would also send them to your husband because he should know what a danger you are to your 4 boys. I hope you like the other side of the dirt, or jail, because that is where you are headed. And I pray that you do not cart your children around town while you are high. Good Luck

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