Finding Pain Doctor In Pittsburgh Pa (Page 3)

I need 2 find a pain doctor that will write opiates.

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thank you for this number an i am praying when i call it the drs there are not like the 3 ive been to who are deathly afraid or adverse to prescribing pain meds. i'm in constant pain and have very little quality of life without some form of opioid and muscle relaxant. i feel depressed because of it and do almost nothing with friends or outside of my home. i will call this number tomorrow. hope there is one close enough for me to get to cuz idon't even drive anymore due to my disability

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I CAN NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE!!! EVERY WWORD YOU SAID I HAVE SCREAMED AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! WALKED OUT ON TWO SO CALLED "PAIN MGT. DOCS AND SAID I WAS NOT ON TRIAL NOR A CRIMINAL AND WONT BE TREATED LIKE ONE! IM STILL LOOKING STILL IN PAIN AND STILL HATE MY LIFE THE WAY IT IS FROM PITTS AREA IF ANYONE CAN HELP

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THANK YOU FOR THE NUMBERS I AM SICK TO DEATH OF DRS WHO COW TOW IN FEAR OF THEIR LICENSE BEING YANKED FOR GIVING OPIOIDS. SICK SICK SICK OF IT AND BEING TREATED LIKE A COMMON CRIMINALBECAUSE YOU NEDD HELP WITH TRUE PAIN GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE SEEKING RELIEF WITH ME I HAVE NONE YET AND IVE BEEN LOOKING FRO 4 YRS NOW

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I need a doctor in Pittsburgh to prescribe my high doses of narcotic pain medication. I have MANY painful issues including lupus, etc. 9 years on the same meds now they want me at a pain clinic. Lowering my meds considerably was ok until the last change; now bedridden and they want to keep lowering them. I have had nurses by my side for 5 years who are upset at my deterioration. I need help. {edited for privacy}

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If you could please help me out with the doctor I've been in chronic pain for over 15 years had back surgery in 2011 my doctor suddenly just quit or got fired from where he worked and since then I have been looking for a doctor for the past year I'm in constant pain and I know what it's like to not be able to function because of the severity of the chronic pain nobody that has chronic pain issues can understand what it is like to live this kind of Life how depressing it becomes how angry you become because you're so miserable because you're in pain all the time I'm tired of being miserable I'm tired of being in pain all I want is some relief and these doctors are afraid to write anything even if it's a Vicodin which you don't even hear those anymore so if anyone can help me with a doctor in the Pittsburgh area I would gratefully appreciated

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Dont bother with her. My dr sent me to her and I find her rude, snide and uncaring. I have done everything she has asked of me and she refuses to order me anything I have several types of pain and some of it opioids wont touch but they help other kinds I know the difference I have a small statch that im about to overdose on just to get this behind me. Why are they forcing me to live like this? I would rather have a shorter life and live in some comfort than a long miserable one that I'm going to have to bring to an end anyway

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I worked in healthcare for several decades--even in an excellent inpatient pain mgmt program, which I thought was enough to protect myself from being injured by a local clinic in Salem, OR. I had been warned that I couldn't get safe care in the town and would need to drive to Portland, 50 miles away, which wasn't feasible, due to my shoulder injuries and dogs. That clinic--with the collusion of a local orthopedic surgeon specializing in shoulders--dissolved much of my cartilage and damaged the subacromial nerves. The condition is known to be severely painful--the first research article I could access began with 'this devastating, life-altering' etc. I went on to KP (despite warnings), and, although my PCP was the excellent, the orthopedist was incompetent and dishonest (he was let go by KP and is practicing in WA, until that practice catches on...) and KP's pain management in Portland absurd.

My advice would be to avoid OR--serious abuse issues, particularly methadone and minimal healthcare resources. WA had been putting everyone possible on methadone, which provided the majority of the fatalities from overdose that are used to discredit opioids--but targeting oxycodone, not methadone. (Methadone is far more dangerous.) it does have decent healthcare, and I think is much better than Pittsburgh, but not a good place for pain control.

I moved from CA gen years ago, so I can't speak for it now, but I think it's by far the best of these three....

I recently moved back to Pittsburgh, where I lived forty years ago, under the misunderstanding that I might get better care, especially since some of the best research on my condition had been done at UPMC (although that orthopedist is now at Stanford). I spent half my savings on this move--and have very little left--and, after arriving, had a terrible time just getting treated for a nasty respiratory infection. Being repetitively sick slowed my search for pain treatment down to the point where I have a couple of days of meds left and the pain is so horrific that I will not survive without treatment. The leading specialist said that even with surgery the damage is so bad I'll be on opiates for life--not what I hoped to hear. (Everyone with this had previously been highly physically active and almost everyone is a young athlete who had a post-op pain pump.)

A certain percentage of patients, given certain not yet clearly defined variables (as in the litigation is now heading towards 'us' (MDs), let's shut down the research...) develop severe damage from administration of large volumes of local anesthetics in joints, the same ones used with cortisone and trigger point injections. The damage takes time--3 to 12 months--as the cartilage cells slowly die off. As painful as injections are without an anesthetic, those few MDs aware of the research are advising others to avoid any non-essential use.

Right now I am absolutely terrified, as I had no idea of the difficulty of getting opioids treatment in Pittsburgh-- nor the lag time of having to be seen by a pain mgmt center before getting treated. In OR--and likely still in CA--a PCP could cover you until the appt with the center--especially given the wait time.

I had almost moved back to San Diego, where the MDs I had worked with had respect for me--which seems in short supply here. I am on this site out of desperation and will come back if any of the suggestions prove worthwhile or if I find good care elsewhere. If I can't get treatment here tomorrow I'm going to try to fly back to the West coast to see if I can get coverage to enable a move to somewhere where I can get surgery, which the specialist said would be an improvement--and effective pain mgmt. (I used to wish they would just remove my arms and shoulders, if that would stop the pain, but that's not likely....I wish I was joking.) Once the meds run out I won't be able to move--I slept for six or seven hours last Tuesday (always wake up by four) out of a dream that I was being burned alive and was crying uncontrollably from the pain. When I woke up the only change was that I was experiencing the same thing awake, I had been physically crying while asleep. I was totally aware I could not handle the pain without meds.

(I have to get busy and it's difficult to type, but I will try to come back to describe the money interests behind the anti-opiate war right now. I had an MBA before getting an RN and had interviewed for headquarters marketing at top pharmaceutical firms, back in 1980. (I have a conscience and decided to change fields, just as healthcare was changing to being almost exclusively devoted to profit, aargh.) Opiates are cheap and generic and Eli Lilly, for one, has a very damaging drug yet it's trying to get through the FDA whose major competition is oxycodone. Lilly is spending millions to influence top decision-makers, even newly sponsoring NPR, who now presents totally biased anti-opiate rants by persons like Jeb Bush--whose daughter OD'd on oxy, xanax (?) and alcohol. No anti-Xanax or anti-alcohol rants, how strange...

If anyone has more current information on Pittsburgh, it might be a lifesaver for some of us.

PS I would recommend avoiding South Hills Pain and Rehab. The guy I saw--'Mik' (long Russian name) was the most incompetent, nasty pow I've ever encountered--and I've worked with hundreds over the years, due to a lot of contract work and the type of work I did. Zero knowledge of medicine or medications but thinks he's king of the world. Since my condition is rare and relatively new, most doc's are unaware of it, but this guy stated--and he was dead serious--that he knew more than all the orthopedists in the US. He stated he had been an orthopedic surgeon in Russia--which was apparently a long time ago. He wears a surgical cap in the office, with zero hygienic use, in lieu of a Napoleonic hat--which I guess would not be in keeping with his heritage, albeit appropriate. The one-star reviews are absolutely true to my own experience, but he was the only person available, so I took a chance. If you need help, he may be very demoralizing.

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Can anyone recommend somewhere to go for pain management in the Pittsburgh pa area? I have had 8 fusions. I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, sciatica, psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, failed back syndrome, two more herniations of my back and 10 total back surgeries. I'm in a lot of pain. I was on oxymorphone 30 milligrams three times a day + oxycodone 30 mg 4 times a day. I asked my neurosurgeon if he could drop me down and find me a different doctor whatever. He did and the doctor wouldn't stop dropping me. He told me I'd be able to go back to work but I haven't worked for 10 years. I've been disabled. I've seen 6 ime doctors and none of them told me I could work ever again. I found a new doctor but the problem is, is they're only writing me oxymorphone 20 mg twice a day and Percocet 10 / 325 twice a day so I have nothing for breakthrough and I'm missing one of those long-acting meds and I'm hurting for about 8 hours to 12 hours a day. I have two preteens and have been dealing with this for over 2 years. I really need some help. I don't want to miss any more time than what I have with my children. I'm a father who loves his kids and really just want to be a part of their life and feel somewhat at least as close to normal as I can. Thank you so very much if you could help me {edited for privacy}. I appreciate it if you would actually read this and even if you can't help and just try to give me a direction it would be great. Thank you again.

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Re: Shawn (# 48)

Good luck. No one in Pittsburgh will prescribe anything. I have the same issues as U and have been to many drs but all they want to do is the same procedures over and over with no result

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It's over now. They have these labels out here: OPIOID CRISIS AND EPIDEMIC!!! They have ruined it for everyone. It's very sad to say. Good luck everyone.

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