Getting Prescriptions From 2 Different Doctors For Pain Meds But There Are Conditions (Page 27)

Well I just really need to know if what I am doing is considered doctor shopping. I fell at at department store and injured my knee. Now I have to go to the doctor the lawyer sent me to. He prescribes pain meds for me but the only thing he can treat is my knee. I started having back problems. My primary care doctor sent me to a different doctor and he also gives me meds. But the pharmacy said they would call the doctors and tell on me. So I went and ahead and told the doctors myself so that it would not look as bad. What do you think will happen to me? The pharmacy refused to give me back my prescription. Can they do that?

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Re: C Earle (# 6)

I agree, I live in the state of New York. And if I am reading a pain medication from one doctor. And then I break my arm two weeks later, I am told by the previous doctor that I must get a new prescription to treat the pain for the broken arm since that is acute pain. Vs. The pain management medication. They are two different types of pain and require two different treatments. New York State has very clear Laws on this. One doctor cannot tell you to take another doctors pain medication differently or at a different dosage because she broke a bone or had some other type of accident. You should definitely be upfront with both doctors and let me know what is going on and they can collaborate between the two of them. But it is not considered talk to shopping. If I break my arm I’m not gonna go to pain management when the Ulna is sticking out of my arm from falling down 16 steps. It was an open fracture. So I had to doctors writing my pain medication and it is not considered Dr. shopping. But you do need to be upfront with your doctor. It also depends on what you’re being treated for. If you have soft tissue injuries. One that you’re being treated with medication by your primary care in another soft tissue injury from an insurance doctor, then that’s kind of iffy and murky territory.

I say it really depends on the types of injury. Whether it’s chronic or acute onset.

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Re: Sandy (# 3)

You are very knowledgeable about everything that you wrote. Praise The Living God for people like us who do know our facts vs. opinions. Have a blessed day. ( I know that I am writing this message a few years later but I just had to say thank you Sandy for your knowledge and the way you spoke per se to this question)

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Re: justin (# 4)

It does no good to fill controlled pain drugs at different pharmacies as Pharmacists are required to check them all through a prescription monitoring system which will show that you had a prescription filled elsewhere. So it is very hard to get away with Dr. shopping unless you go out of state to a Dr. and fill in another State, as the system just checks statewide. But if you don’t live fairly close to the State line, red flags will go up as to why you are going out of State to see a doctor.

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Re: C Earle (# 6)

I realize this is an old post, but I DETEST anyone blatantly giving false info as if it is fact! I do NOT care how many times you state you talked to the DEA; I DOUBT it, but that does NOT matter because YOU are so WRONG!!!! If I get narcotics from any Dr for my back pain, and then see a dentist for bad tooth; I better only get antibiotics filled because it IS Dr shopping. Really, that's just ignorant to tell someone that the DEA says it is ok and they are not concerned with them as long as they have MRI's, ect.. It does NOT matter if you have Stage 4 Cancer; the DEA cares about anyone that gets controlled drugs- PERIOD... If You get controlled drugs from 2 different sources, and they treat the same symptoms; Pain, ect.. it is only a matter of time before YOU REALLY get to talk to a DEA agent!!

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Re: Sandy (# 3)

Not entirely doctor shopping. My orthopedist prescribes Ultram for knee pain. My GP orders Vicodin for back pain which is worse. That’s not doctor shopping. That’s following the advice of 2 different physicians.

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Re: Verwon (# 1)

See That's Doctor $hoppimg. I Was Told if Mediy Has Payment Issues..I had To Go to My ,primary ,.pain Meds.Offrred To Pay 0fficeCost. She Told y !! Hell because ,Dr Wasn't getting paid. Not Seen wreck.MexicTe Said one Hand Don't No ???..

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Re: justin (# 4)

Heck I Was Told to urgent care because I don't get my meds to the first and I'm in a lot of pain right now and I can't read you in my eye or anything you said it'll give me an earlier today thank God I didn't go to urgent Care I Don't Need No Doctor on record

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Re: C Earle (# 6)

U Didn't No Plus I Pray Ur Not Going To dr in Florida

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