Doctors In California

I have had 3 epidurals, have 3 degenerating discs, have run 55 marathons, completed 5 Ironman Races. I don't smoke or drink and lead a healthy lifestyle. I won't take narcotics. I also flew for a major airlines for 32 yrs. I just learned that my medical will end in Dec. Mom is dying, etc. The only thing that works is xanax, 3 (2 mg) a day. I have had 4 pseudo seizures, from anxiety. I have a supporting husband, but am almost have too much anxiety to function. I have never had any problems with the law and have a BA and Masters degree. I also go to lots of support groups, help! ## Help I need a xanax doctor in northern central ca have been on xanax for several after I was brutally raped by a deputy sheriff who is serving life in prison severe panic and anxiety without them there ...

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i have a back injury i have been on norco for almost a year my doctor says a new ca. law says she has to bring me off norco and replace it with tramadol that soon no will be able to get norco unless you just had surgery is this true ## Yes, from what I've learned that is basically correct. General practitioners won't be able to prescribe such medications, except in emergency cases after recent injury or surgery. Learn more pain management details here. If someone suffers from a condition that causes long-term chronic pain, they have to see a pain management specialist for treatment to continue having such medications prescribed. A lot of it has to do with the abuse of the medications by many people, the fact that many doctors aren't specially trained to treat people that in ...

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I'm looking for a pain management doctor in fresno ca who prescribe an existing prescription for oxycodon ## Were you a patient of Dr. Work too? I've also had problems finding a Dr. that wants to treat me. ## I too live in Fresno & I feel your pain. Literally; I've already had back surgery which kinda helped problems in my back. But not completely. I also have herniated discs in my neck which tends to affect rt side of body. Then there's the degeneration in my hip, muscle spasms, carpal tunnel syndrome in left hand/wrist, & of course the migraines. I've seen a # of pain docs. Dr cox is pretty good, dr.leroy was good too probably could help u more with what u need. DO NOT go to Drs.Amireh-doesn't prescribe mess, or Goswami-dismissed me after 1st visit for ...

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I’ve had some degree of came off and on for over three years. I have been missed diagnosed twice and now have a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. I’m not sure if anyone really knows what I have. I do not abuse my pain medication but the dose I am giving has not been enough to manage my pain. I am in level five or more 24 hours a day. I have tried talking to them many many doctors I have about getting me a good pain management doctor and I keep hearing that they are hesitant to prescribe opiates for fibromyalgia. They will prescribe it for anything else but not for fibromyalgia. I’m going to yet again another specialist at UCLA that supposedly specializes in fibromyalgia but I need to have a back up plan. Whatever this is that I have has caused me to have to use a walker and m...

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i have been on methadone for 18 years for pain from an auto accident and live out of country, MX....I need to find a doctor who will perscrible me for more thsan 30 days as it would be cost prohibiative to travel evey 30 days ...and I need to establish this link soon. ## If you are now living in the United States, Pain Management Dr.s are who you would look for. I also can only take methadone for my pain. They do prescribe it in low doses for pain unless you may have a ton of previous paper work from before. I hate to tell you that at first they will only give you 1 month worth at a time. After I established myself with this Dr. For 8 months, he does give me 2 months now & I have heard that the law is only 3 months of individual prescriptions at a time. Each time you fill it, it has...

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I need a dr that will prescribe heavy pain meds and Xanax in the Pasadena California area. ## I'm sorry, but there is no directory of physicians according to what they will or will not prescribe that I can refer to for you. Additionally, due to the new directives set forth by the DEA last year, you'll need to see specialists to have such medications prescribed, so in your case, that would most likely be one doctor for pain management and a psychiatrist for the Xanax. The FDA classifies Xanax as a benzodiazepine that's most commonly used to treat anxiety and nervous disorders. It carries the risk of being habit forming and could cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, headache and irritability. Do you currently have a PCP that may be able to refer you to someone? If so...

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I am having a really hard time finding a doctor that will give me a script for xanax. I use to be able to get them from my old physician, but not anymore. This makes my life a living hell. So I figured that since I actually have a legitimate reason to be prescribed xanax that I could go see my doctor and just be honest with her and I'd get my xanax legally instead of having to go on a scavanger hunt to find real alprazolam. But I was wrong. She treated me like s*** and pretty much made me feel like I was a joke, or some addict trying to get a fix. ( which I am not ) All of this just made my life worse. I feel so discouraged and hopeless. It is not fair that all these doctors seem to be nowadays is these people, these self ritgeous smug people who get to determine whether or not I ge...

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I just moved to Riverside CA from Texas and I have been on Adderall for years. I just ran out of my last pill, but now I cannot seem to find any doctor that will even see me to write me a prescription. The doctors that are willing to see me but will not guarantee me anything are booked for the next month anyways. I am getting very desperate, and I feel like I am out of options. Does anyone know of any suggestions or any doctors in the Los Angeles area that will prescribe Adderall? ## Hello, Brian! How are you? If you're calling doctors to ask them to write you a prescription for this, you're just going to continue to have problems. Doctors and their staff are taught to view that as being drug seeking behavior and you're asking for a medication that can be habit forming and i...

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Hi i am a driver going from San Diego to Tucson AZ and I get #300 of the OXYCODONE 30's anyone suggest any doctors PCP in Tucson who I can see or am I better off finding one in California ## I just received a referral to Dr annabi. My primary and chiropractor said his the best. My chiropractor wanted to also give me a referral yet I just got one from my primary. I'm very hopeful. ## Did you see Dr. Annabi? How did it go? I had a referralfor him to but I'm so tired of being discriminated against. ## Hi Lucy...I did try Dr. Annabi and I believe he is no longer allowed to write certain meds. His partner will and he's cutting people really low now. Try Quality of Life Medical they gave me exactly what I was getting

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Hello. I'm a stage 4 cancer patient that's been dealing with criminal chronic pain for many years now with tons of surgeries. I had two doctors that retired here in Sacramento both for about five years before they retired and they prescribed me the medications that I needed for pain back then and they were my primary care doctors. It seems now it's almost impossible with the so-called opioid crisis and how the doctors I had always knew that I would have to take medication for the rest of my life at some level even if lessened? My problem and I hope someone out there can help me? The problem is now I can't find a doctor of any kind even though I have a primary care doctor and admits I need pain medication will not fill any of my medications from the past so I have no qual...

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Hi I'm a stage 4 cancer patient and live in Sacramento California. My doctor of 5 years recently retired without telling any of his patients! So now I'm stuck without a doctor and I also need a doctor that is compassionate because most doctors these days seem to not care regardless of how sick you are, to prescribe my normal medications like Xanax and my pain medications being a cancer patient. I'd really appreciate any help and feedback you can give me to find a compassionate doctor here in Sacramento California. Thank you! ## I would like to get information about upjohn 90 tablets, I was prescribed them for severe panic attacks and another issue, but my doctor retired and I went to a new doctor and she told me she can't prescribe them anymore so I now try each day to p...

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I just moved here from Fla, and I have a long list of things of problems and was being prescribed Roxicodone 30 mg, and they moved me up to diladid 8mg, and I have been looking around and its seems that all the doctors want to prescribe are Norco 10/325 and that barely even takes away a headache for me, and everyone keeps sayng try looking up pain management, and I have seen 2 different doctors and I dont have insurance so Im paying out of pocket and its not like i can call and ask the receptionist if they prescribe what I was previously getting, does anyone know of any pm in or around ?riverside california that prescribes my old meds ## Hello, Jessica! How are you? I'm sorry that you're in pain. Yes, if you require such medications on a long-term ongoing basis, you'll need ...

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Can anyone help me with the name of a doctor that is not afraid to prescribe soma? I understand my prescription can not cross state line. I have been told by walgreens it has to be a local dr. ## I did not know it has to be a local Doctor as Federal Law should apply. Seems that the State is meddling in places it has no right to be, and we the patients suffer. I know in California and Arizona Walgreens wouldn't tell you this, even though the Doc might? ## Hello, Susan! How are you? To explain this issue, Soma has become more strictly controlled, since it is very commonly abused, which means that the pharmacy stock limits now apply to it, just as they do for narcotics and benzodiazepines. Every pharmacy can only stock a certain amount each month, once they are out, they are out until ...

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I have been in Pain management since 2004 in California and just Moved out there to muskogee Oklahoma... unfortunately there are NO doctors here willing to treat my pain i was on a regiment of 80mg Oxycontin 2X daily 10/325mg Norcos every 4 hours and 4mg IV dilaudid as needed for breakthrough pain... i am in search of a doctor out this way who is actualluy willing to perscribe these meds... thanks ## Well, the first question I have is, how are you checking with the doctors about getting help? The reason I am asking is because if you're calling various doctor's offices and asking if they'll treat you and prescribe specific medications, then you will pretty much always get told no. When someone does that, doctor's and their staff are taught to see it as drug seeking behavi...

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I went to the VA hospital on Jefferson in Jacksonville, FL and they said they dont have soma or oxy for me something I have been taken for 15 years in VA California! The just say "no it is not in our formulary" so I ask if they would script it out to CVS that does have it and they say they cant do that either! So I a without a job or resorces because i need the soma to work everyday and oxy only maybe once a week or two. I only take 2 somas a day...and then nothing else! Please tell me who to contact in the military that may make a difference in my life so i dont have to go on disability. ## Disability in Florida will most likely not be able to accommodate you either with the Soma/Oxy combo? ## @Kathy, Sorry to hear about your situation. As a vet, you'd think they'd be m...

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I just this morning went to my doctor and I went because my back pain I have had for 3 years that I have opted not to take pain killers for has gotten so bad I can't work out, I can't stand at work for more than 5 minutes with out pain and I am now losing sleep too. I told my doctor all of this and he thinks i need to have rehabilitation and physical therapy which doesnt even start till next month. I need a doctor that understands my immediate needs for my pain. Can anyone help? ## Hi Wes, In regards to finding a local pain doctor, I have listed below a couple websites specific to locating pain management doctors in a given area. All you have to do is input your city or zip code for narrowed results: {link removed because site no longer exists} You can give this other page a try...

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Hi I'm new to Wa and transferred to a methadone clinic here about 3 months ago from California. I don't like how they are ran an I would rather go through a private doc, can anyone someone PLEASE help me???? Oh an price here for clinic is double then what it was in California. ## HI, Makenz! How are you? I understand why people don't like the clinics, however, by law a private doctor can't prescribe Methadone for addiction treatment and that applies to the entire U.S. Methadone can only be given for addiction in a clinical setting by those who have been specially trained in its use. I wish I had better news for you, but I don't. Regardless of why you were going to a clinic, since some people resort to it for pain and I have no way of knowing if you were doing so as w...

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i need to find a pain management DR .that prescribes Methadone and takes Monarch Insurance in Orange County my primary MD is going to send a referal to see if it is the rite medication for me. ## Hello, From what I've read, the only way to obtain Methadone is through a clinic unless you've already been to a clinic and are given "take home dosages". Down below is the contact info for a couple treatment centers that you can contact about being prescribed Methadone- they should be able to answer your questions. I'm not sure if these treatment centers take Monarch insurance but you can still call them up and ask if you'd like- California Treatment Services DBA Recovery Solutions of Santa Ana 2101 East 1st Street- Santa Ana, CA 92705 Phone: (714) 542-3581x107 (extensi...

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My Doctor who prescribed pain medicines in IL died. A new provider took over that pain management clinic and now wants to reiterate me off opiate medication give me nurontin also called gabapentin and give me a pain pump regardless that the specialists in California do not recommend procedures directed at my spine rather recommend conservative theropy and opiate medication for multi level degenerative disc disease in the cervical thoractic and lumbar with spinal stenosis which I've been diagnosed with since 2003 . Can you recommend any doctors in Missouri who will prescribed opiate pain medications for long-term lifelong chronic pain conditions? Help is greatly appreciated in finding another octor who will prescribe pain medications to someone with a well documented severe chronic pain

Does anyone know of caring physicians in the Sacramento, CALIFORNIA area willing to prescribe pain meds for chronic pain? I have suffered from severe chronic pain due to 2 herniated disks and sciatica for 17 years. Current physician retired and no doctor I've seen to date is willing to fill my existing Oxycontin and per cover scripts. Any help in finding a doctor is appreciated. ## Have you found anyone? I'm in the same boat, having just arrived! The physician's office that I made an appointment with *3weeks ago* said no. I am 72 years old and am in fine shape taking only 90mg a day, but the doctor is gun shy. ## Who did y'all see? I could suggest Dr. vuong he helped my husband but don't ask for an early fill ever or you will get the boot so now I'm trying to fin...

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