Pain Med Doctors California

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 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’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 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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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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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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I am seeking a new pain management doctor for degenerative disk disease pain management. I have been going to the pain clinic here in st. joe for 3 years and am getting worse. ## I forgot to mention I'm looking for a doctor who will prescribe dilaudid. ## Hello, Debi! How are you doing? I'm sorry, but there is no listing of doctors according to what they will or will not prescribe that I can refer to for you. What is the problem with your current pain management doctor? Will they no longer help you? Learn more Dilaudid details here. This is a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation. ## Just moved to Springfield MO from southern california and was being seen by a ...

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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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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 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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Hi all. I have intractable pelvic RSD, peripheral neuropathy, lumbar facet spondylosis. I live in California and am about to have to change insurances at the end of this month. The new insurance has ridiculously high Rx prices. I go to a PM for all my pain meds, but my primary dr has in the past managed them for me. My question is if anyone knows if I get an Rx for the 60mg Oxycontin twice a day like usual from my PM and then my primary to write a script for 40mg 3 times a day and then I can go to 2 totally different pharmacies and fill one with my insurance and the other at another pharmacy and pay with cash, will that flag the DEA and cause my PM to get a notification of "Doctor shopping"? I am just trying to have enough meds to get me through an extra month until my husbands ...

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I have been using Dextromethorphan 60mg Sr/ER for pain management. I was prescribed this medication, which is made in a compounding pharmacy by a doctor in California who is actively involved with the NIH(National Institute of Health. This pain management doctor uses off label medications, but is light years ahead of the traditional pain management doctor, who goes through their steps of the various epidural, nerve blocks, a multitude of other treatment that all the other pain management physicians practice, all the way up to a spinal cord stimulator or pump. I tried all of those treatments and was told no treatment remains, other than heavy narcotics, which do not work in the slightest for me. I heard about this doctor through my brother as I was in the hospital on a dialaudid drip for...

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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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I just moved from texas and now i live in riverside california, i really am in horrible pain on a daily basis and havent been able to get a reliable doctor that i can depend on does anyone have a doctor that they can refer me to? ## I may not have a doctor I can refer you to, but I can provide you with a couple links that may be of service to you in locating pain management doctors in your general 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 too if you come up with different results for some reason or another: wellness.com/find/pain%20management%20specialist Many of the results you find (in one or both of the links above) also list a phone number for that specific doctor; I...

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Hi, it is so sad to see so many of us suffering needlessly due to ignorance! PLEASE HELP, ANYONE WHO KNOWS OF A PAIN MANAGEMENT DOCTOR IN SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY AREA (or within a couple of hours) who will help as I have moved here from California and desperate to find a caring pain doctor! It took SIXTEEN doctors and about 8 years of HELL to finally find a medication regime that helps my extreme chronic pain from two serious car accidents and several bad slip and falls. Quick list: Extreme FMS, herniated disks, spinal cysts, stenosis, spondylosis, arthritis, osteoporosis, nerve impingement, neuritis/neuropathy, massive inflammation throughout, for about 12 years have been taking methadone 10 mg, norco for breakthrough, soma for muscle spasm, neurontin for nerve pain. Have not increased...

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I've moved here from California and was on methadone for pain, I went to advanced pain in Missoula and Montana spine and pain and they were against any drugs. Does anyone know a methadone Dr willing to help a 5X back surgery patient who is in chronic pain! ## Hello, Holly! How are you doing? I am sorry about the problem that you're having. Most doctors are going to balk, if you walk in asking for a medication that is as addictive as Methadone. This is a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation. What you really need to do is set up an appointment with a new doctor, make sure they get a full copy of your most current medical records and then discuss your treatment o...

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I have meficare and need a dr to prescribe pain meds in 93420 area thank you i have been on pain mgmt 15yrs and my dr cut me ofg Zi have hearf methadone oxycodone xanax withfrawals can kill u ## It is already affecting your writing & spelling. I live in California/Arizona and have had no problems obtaining Xanax from primary care doctors. Good luck! ## Thank u i hsve tried and they wont prescribe it im going to have s nervous brrskdown ## Hello, Jilly! How are you? I'm very sorry about the problems that you're having. Due to the new directives set forth by the DEA last year, you'll most likely need to see specialists to have such medications prescribed, so that would be a psychiatrist for the Xanax and a pain management specialist for the others. The FDA lists these medi...

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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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Is there a new law in California that limits the quantity of Hydrocodone 10/325 to 120 pills per month? ## Hello, Eric! How are you? New directives were issues by the DEA last year instructing doctors to restrict how much they prescribe, except in cases where someone has intractable pain from a possibly fatal illness. The FDA classifies this medication as a narcotic analgesic, so it has the potential to be habit forming and may cause side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation. Generally, people are to be kept to the equivalent of no more than 120mgs of Morphine a day, though some states have further restricted that to just the equivalent of 100mgs. Additionally, your doctor is supposed to subscribe the bare minimum it takes to try to control your pai...

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