Doctors Willing To Prescribe Heavy Pain Medication In Colorado (Page 15)
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I have a serious problem. My dr. had two patients start dr. shopping and has decided it is too big of a pain in his butt to continue prescribing, even though I have gotten MRIs and Xrays to prove my problems. I have over a half a dozen herniated discs in my low back, along with degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, scoliosis and arthritis in my facet joints. I am currently on5 30mg oxycodone a day for breakthrough and 60mg of methadone for my long lasting meds. I REALLY need a doctor in the Denver, CO area who will not judge me because of my age, thinking I'm just some drug seeker as I TRULY need my meds to function. I am even being placed on disability until I can get my back healed because if something doesn't change I will be in big time pain for the rest of my life. If ANYONE knows of a good doctor that prescribes strong meds willingly in the Denver area please let me know. I am in desperate need of help as I am going to be SCREWED if I cannot find a good doctor. SOMEONE please help me with a doctor!!!!!

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Hey, I don't know you but I'm searching for a doctor that will help long term chronic pain problems. I live in a very rural Colorado area. I have records that follow with MRI/X-ray's/lab results/and years of medical records..that shows over five years of chronic medical history. I won't get too detailed but if u look at me I am plainly ill by eye sight. my medical history as proven by medical records that my health has continued to go down hill since 2007.. through the years I have had so many surgeries..you could probably unzip me.. as I have had more surgeries than I care to admit. From colon surgery to a thyroid removal..to c-section..to a Gastric sleeve..and this was to better my health as I was quickly deteriorating. After 8 children my weight got out of control. At that time in my life I suffered from severe sleep apnea and my husband ..many times saved my life as it was proven that I would quit breathing over ten times in a night. I was totally cpap depended on high....I had severe diabetes until I was forced too require three shots daily..my goal was to gain control of my health so that I could complete my degree that I had worked so hard for..as throughout my life I not only had and raised 8 kids but I also worked 15 years as a lead Cna -lead for locked Alzheimer unit as well as regular rotations on hip and joint replacement. I worked three years before that as a Emt in Pueblo. Anyways the area I live in is three hours from the nearest specialist.. one way. so two ways is six hours not counting any time for any appointments, etc? I do not own a car.. but truth is, in 2013 myself and my husband were nearly killed in a car accident so we both received a spinal Injury. So to make a long story short my area ..it has become impossible to find a doctor that will help us with our pain levels.. instead they refuse everything even weaker stuff ..instead although we have been evaluated by U/A's and have never had anything bad.. never broke a pain contract..went through any and all diagnostics ever requested etc and never failed.. yet suddenly we get treated like we abuse yet for no reason... So for years we have been on chronic meds. I have records that show how I was started on low dose meds 5 mg.. then a year later about my pain worsened with more diagnosis. That now include a malnutrition disorder requiring my blood to require every two to three month iron iv.. infusion. I have been taking inj's. in the spine and hips as I also have Severe OA through out my spine ..in both hips.. in the accident my neck was injured where now if I turn my neck either way up and down or back in forth it sends sharp pains down my spine and loud enough so people near me can hear the clicking noises my neck now makes as it is moved.. the pain of the weight on my neck from the weight of my neck is so painful I hurt so bad in so many ways.. I can't even explain how many different ways I can't describe it ..I never knew that there was this many different pains. I now am left with stabbing pains that wake me in the middle of night screaming and kicking.. it feels like a ice pick being stabbed into either my feet .. or my mid legs ..I'll get a different pain up my mid back. About bra level or between my shoulder blades I have yet another pain that again I never knew was pain.. but I have no other way to describe the pain except burning ....severe burning...I didn't know burning..stabbing was a pain.I kind of remember burning when I was giving birth but I remember that it was near the end of my many many hours after hard..hard labor usually after more than 20 ish hours...in severe pain...so although it was severe pain it was the end.. the pain would be gone. This never goes away without major medications. that includes a patch and two-three 15mg oxy...daily as well as neurontin in very high doses and depression and anxiety medications. Yet with no slow lowering or tapering off.. they just quit giving all meds. I'm not sure what to do.. I know I'm left unable to care for my children and bed ridden. I'm searching for any advice for a doctor. I am one that is pending disability with a lawyer. Please in Denver..saliva..springs..Pueblo, anywhere that will help with severe chronic pain as well as other medical problems with records.... please if u know any one that can give me advice on who to see.. I have such a lengthy medical history that I need constant medical support, yet because of so many drug shoppers I am left with 3 kids on government assistance and gov medical insurance..no pain relief ..pain of all different kinds that I never knew existed...I'm unable to almost breathe due to pain.. I can't breathe deep which medical knowledge states may cause pneumonia ending in your demise. I'm unable to hold any job as I don't think any one would hire me as I look very sick. I have lost all my hair... almost like chemo.. infection finally took my teeth.. the medical insurance doesn't allow for enough money to get my dentures etc.. so now eating has become a challenge for me.. I'm already unable to get enough nutrition in me. As my stomach is now forever small and unable to get proper nutrition already.. so ya I'm lost
in pain..no income..waiting for disability. I know this is long and detailed but I can hopefully get names and numbers to doctors that might be able to help me so I stand a chance to possibly be able to care for my last three children. Please if anyone knows a doctor that isn't so scared that they don't help you in any way.. one that will care.

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Concerned loved one - First, if your story is true then your son is simply convincing and doesn't mean that the clinic is the problem. Making that assumption is showing that your attempt at showing compassion for the people you THINK your son is contributing to their OD's is more important to you than the well being of HUNDREDS of patients who actually need this clinic. It's good that you're taking a stand against your son, but do just that, don't take it out on the people who need this clinic because it is your SON who is the problem here. His decisions should not affect all of the people who use CPR for legitimate help. I understand you are angry, but either you are taking it out on the wrong people, or this is all fake and you're just trying to troll and stir a pot to see who freaks when they think you are going cause them to lose their meds.
Just think it through. The news isn't going to help. Blaming doctors for your sons problems isn't going to help. Making threats isn't going to help. The ONLY thing that is going to HELP, is getting your SON, help.

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Hey Tammy, may I ask what the name of your doctor there is?

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Please be serious. I want a legal and above board certified physician who can deal with my very complicated situation. I had two high speed head on collisions within 3 years and then spent the next 3 1/2 years having 6 surgeries including two new shoulders, a three level stenosis (in my neck), a 4th level is needed but the doc choose to tackle 3 at once cuz of the pain and rehab issues so I need a neck surgeon again. My left shoulder tore shortly after surgery so did that twice only to have it tear again and is now inoperable. Had a surgery correcting a facial minor disfiguration (eye) from hitting the windshield and lastly had my right knee ortho surgery and it has gone bad again with bone on bone and a 70% tear. I have major probs with my lower back with sciatica bulging on three verts. and disc. on disc with four others. Also have stenosis and nerve impingement that causes severe spasms. Still need my left elbow joint replaced as it is now tore and to complicate all of this I was diagnosed with LYME DISEASE 6 years ago and all of my joints and muscles ache horribly. 2 months ago the info from the rhuematologist concludes very severe FIBROMYALGA. I just need a new Doc here who will continue giving me the same treatment. In fact I'm on about half as much as I was while in the surgery years. I have Imaging coming out of my eyes and recent in fact, yet when I call around and ask for medication management and open to other suggestions, but a bit broke, one would think I called them up and started cussing or something even more terrible. They seem to treat me like a filthy junk. I am even willing to keep heading in the downward direction, not like major but maybe with a bit of time in half. I'm already taking about one forth of what I had been taking due to a quack and it was my first Doc in this field, I never realized how huge the amounts were that he had me on. No excuse just too much trust, little info/research and a large amount of stupidity on my part. I am currently taking 30/5 a day and extended 80/3 a day. I need a DOC IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS OR IM OUT 100% AND IM VERY SCARED. I live in Castle Rock which puts me directly between Denver and Colorado Springs, so I can do either. I have a new Insurance which was a bad idea because no one seems to take. It's BRIGHT HEALTH which is a Centura Group and many clinics wont even do self pay (why is that anyway?) Doc Shopping or what? I saw the earlier posts and got that number but for reasons I can not go into, can not go there. I would prefer Den but feel I have called 80%, all with No's for one or another reason but would go either direction. PLEASE HELP AND FAST! I'M SOOO VERY SCARED! ALSO AS I SAID IM WILLING TO GET A BIT LESS AND THEN CONTINUE DOWN A BIT MORE AFTER THAT-WHATEVER THEY THINK! PLEASE REPLY FAST AND WITH A COUPLE OF GOOD OR EXCELLENT IDEAS. THIS IS LEGIT AND SERIOUS!!

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Dr. Sisson in loveland, Colorado.He will treat you right.

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Rainbow, everything will be ok. Yes, cash clinics are being looked into as Florida was.

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my apologies Rainbow as I wasn't pointing to you as the one assuming Mac dying of overdosing.
It was for folks on here not really knowing what happened.
All I know is he has a heart problem.
I know it wasn't you who said that!

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Chaos u are rite fed up just read his profile and just started assuming things I talked with Mac myself a few times I knew of his conditions and family issues alittle bit but I wasn't tha 1 sayin things bout Mac I wldnt do that at all

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Hi does this doctor take Medicare r is there a fee? Im an disabled vet. With lots of MRIs n surgeries. VC thanks Donna. does anyone know a doc in Colorado Springs r around there please?!!! ????Navy vet.

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Hi does this doctor take Medicare r is there a fee? Im an disabled vet. With lots of MRIs n surgeries. VC thanks Donna.

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Smalls how are you doing was wonderin if u go 2 CPR for ur pain management even though I don't go there I'm just concerned 4 tha patients there do 2 wat fed up posted and that mom wit tha son Nate sayin they were gonna call and report that they are a pill mill just cuz of 1 person wen tha mom shld be happy only 1 callin and reportin her son Nate instead of callin and tellin tha news ppl that it is a PM

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Rainbow Flowers, everything was cool calm and collective as usual. I also recall Mac passing because he had a heart condition, I think Tammy or Og Wendy had communicated w/ him. Being all he went thru with addiction by a family member and how he didn't like abusers, I don't think he would appreciate being called an addict as some who didn't know him, but wanted to clear up any assumptions.

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Rainbow Flowers those are my concerns exactly!! no. 1 ppl at CPR will suffer then yes go to put Clinic and I think our doc has plenty of business so our doc can go up in price

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Chaos I no we are that's why I was so mad with fed up she just hit a nerve she don't know me and idk if she knows anyone on here..I understand were she is comin from wit her concerns but at the same time she is putting alot of ppl at jeopardy I just worry cuz last time wit CPR cuz everyone came on Lincoln and prices went up and ppl got discharged and we had a few new bad seeds cuz I talk with tha girls there Sara and Nicole I no our Dr is not playing and will not let 1 person mess it up 4 all of us I been there almost a yr now and plan on keepin it that way and I just hope and pray whatever happens 2 that Nate guy he does not come our way

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Rainbowflowers, yes I posted immediately after I was seeing CPR and the patients being threatened
I begged concerned mom not to call,
at that moment I had a sigh of relief it was not our docs, but u know what happens when CPR goes down.
I feel for the mom and the patients at CPR
that's y I don't like giving out our info, I hope CPR doesn't close for investigation. I doubt it though, they are watching their p s and q anyway. I'm sure dea is working very closely a all pain management
the worst thing about all the posting that has taken place is not helping nobody on this thread, we r here for each other to vent if needed, to ask questions.

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Fed up,
You say in yr posts that you have seen young kids at cpr getting their meds and call them fakers but then you say later you only go to the pain doc that you family doc referred you to, care to explain this inconsistency ?? How could you see people who you call fakers if you have never been there?
Why do you hate CPR? I am not a CPR patient but you seem to really dislike them, is this personal experience , family etc. please explain. So the rest of us can be informed and well educated. Yes it is a shame that Mac is no longer with us but there for the grace of God.
Maybe there are folks, like Nate, that are faking and abusing, maybe not but why not show some compassion.

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Skigirl, I doubt she will cuz she said and I quote sum ppl on this site are faking for their pain meds or she will say I won't give out my Dr info for fake Dr seekers now. I'm guessing all this, not saying she has or will say it.

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Fed up
For those of us with real pain who are seeking a good pain management doctor who follows the rules and cares about patients, will you share the name of yr doctor?

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Smalls I told fed up the same thing she just wants to come on here and start problems for ppl and it ain't even none of her business really bout Nate his mom CPR or anyones Dr maybe she is mad cuz CPR wldnt take her and is using Nate as the excuse

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Fed up, um all pain management Drs work side by side with the DEA, not only your doctor and once again at any pain management Dr you need a referral and records to prove why you need pain management, so that Nate guy had to see a Dr and lied to the Dr to get what he wants. So why are you not going after him but you are running your mouth on this website? WE people on here didn't do nothing to you at all, PERIOD. You come on here trying to bully and push us around like we are the ones handing our meds to this Nate guy so why don't you call CPR and report Nate yourself.

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