Pain Management Missouri

What and Where is this OCH place they talk about. I see a lot of posts are 3 to 5 years old. Anything current? My husband has been in chronic pain for years and they keep taking MRI's and scans....we really have no clear answer on teh results except they look good!! Then why is he in hellish pain all the time? We have gone to 2 pain management clinics and neither one prescribes pain meds and you have to wait 3 to 6 weeks for an injection appointment! What is he to do in the mean time...just suffer? ## Those are older posts and there are no simple answers except to say things are only becoming more restrictive without tangible documentation of a condition (i.e.;mri,cat scan, Xray) most General practioners are extreamly hesitent to prescribe opiate like narcotics. Some pain clinics ha...

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Hi. I just recently moved to st louis with my daughter and I am needing to find a clinic or doctor that will prescribe something for my chronic pain. I suffered a horrible accident involving a horse years back and been to several dr.s with no avail to finding out the cause of the problem. Have been through just about every injection and nerve frying you can do with no releif. I need to find someone that can help me and not judge me til I can get back to my home state to see my PCP in december. If anyone can recommend a dr or clinic that can help in st louis missouri I would be greatful to say the least. Thanks for your time! ## If you require narcotics for chronic pain, you'll need to see a pain management specialist, due to the new regulations that were put in place last year. PCPs...

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I was wheelchair-bound & in constant, horrific pain for eight years despite 2 lumbar surgeries & a C-spine surgery. After my last lumbar surgery, a year in a nursing home with an excellent physical therapist and the right medication my pain was under control...I could finally get out of bed after 8 yrs, walk a half mile, live a relatively normal life...I was even considering a part-time job eventually. This was when I lived in California. 2 yrs ago I moved to Mountain Home AR to be with my sister. I immediately tried finding a doctor here but there was no one willing to help me. When I ran out of the meds I brought from California, I went through severe withdrawal, & back to the unbearable chronic pain for which I considered suicide many times. When Dr. Chatman & Tilley ...

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I live in N.W. Missouri and have several disorders that cause pain. For example, dural ectasia from my Marfans Syndrome and Chronic Pancreatitis among a couple others. Doctors here will not prescribe pain medication not actually am I able to get my phenergan for nausea so I can maybe eat. The Pain clinics around here treat back problems since that seems to be where the money is. I dont know what to do but i do have documented proof of my pain and issues. Any help would be great. thanks ## Hello, A regular primary care doctor should be able to prescribe you Phenergan since it is just an antihistamine/antiemetic. 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 ci...

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2 failed surgeris T12 L1/L1 L2 /L3/ L3 L4 /L4 L5/L5S1/ Iin low back its HAVE PAIN around lower back i get totally numbness in my left leg. then my fingers pink and the other one they go numb i get in my hand left arm , i also have pains in my hips shooting pain in my leg left. pinch nerve in my neck i had did injections from 2000-2009 an i dont have a doctor plz help ## I am very sorry that you are suffering. Have you looked into setting up an appointment with a pain management specialist? That's usually the best option for someone like you with such severe health issues. Learn more pain management details here. The best advice I can give is do not ask them ahead of time to prescribe pain medications, because most doctors will see that as being drug seeking behavior. Get yourself in...

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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

I moved from California to Mountain Home, Arkansas (north-central Arkansas) last year & have been unable to find a pain management doctor. I have seen two doctors. The first one accused me of being a "drug addict" on my first visit despite the fact that I brought all of my surgery records, MRI & X-Ray films, discharge instructions (I'd been staying in a nursing home) & my original medication containers. He was rude, abusive, and would actually yell at me during visits. To my great relief, he finally referred me to another pain mgmt. clinic two hours away. But, guess what, I received the same treatment from the new doctor! I don't want to bore you with all the details but will share some of the facts. I have been in a wheelchair for 9 yrs., I've had 2 lumb...

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So I live about 20 miles outside st. louis, missouri and seen a new pain management dr. He prescribed me the same thing my intern dr. gave me which was 50mcg fentanyl every 48 hours. He also prescribed me percocet 10/325 which doesn't agree with me nor anything in that class of meds, and I remember darvocet, which back in the early 90's 3 dr's were giving them to me n I was young n dumb then and it was the first pain pill I ever took. I was getting 180 a month u know that n between drinking at 29 I almost ended up dying from liver failure. The dr's could not believe that I walked in the er on my own much less that I was still alive as my liver stopped working. My enzymes we're like 6200. I was like is that high? Well put this way I don't know how many dr's ca...

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I can't seem to get along with my doctor and he wants to do what he wants. I've been sick and on pain medication for 10 years. He wants to cit me off and drop me as a patient. I need to find a doctor ASAP in Saint Louis Missouri. ## Hello, Vanessa! How are you? I'm very sorry about the problems that you're having. However, if you're taking any type of controlled substance for chronic pain, then your doctor's hands are tied. Regular PCPs are no longer allowed to prescribe them and you'll need to see a pain management specialist. Any PCP that you see if going to have to refer you to one for such medications. As to doing what he wants, he has the medical degree and you're going to find that most doctors are like that. They expect to be in charge. Can anyone ...

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I really need help. Does anyone know of a compassionate doctor in or near Iowa that will prescribe hydro? I would be so thankful. ## Are you referring to Hydrocodone, Hydromorphone, Hydrochlorothiazide, Hydrocortisone, or something entirely different? If you're look for a pain management doctor, you can use the link below to get a sense of which doctors are in your immediate area. Just input your city or zip code for narrowed results: {link removed because site no longer exists} I hope this info helps! Please post back if you have any other questions or information to add. ## I have moved from Missouri to Iowa and I am looking for a doctor who prescribes pain meds in Iowa who doesn't look at you like a drug addict. I have records and have been seeing a pain doctor. Please help a...

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