Need Help Finding A Pharmacy To Fill Dr. Bynes Prescriptions (Page 11)

I live in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. Diagnosed suffering from Degenerative Disc Disease, with Cervical Radiculopathy (one bulging disc) and Lumbar Radiculopathy (two bulging discs). These spinal problems are diagnosed by three (3) recent CAT Scans, with radiologist analyses. And yes, I have ALL of the CAT Scan CDs, and radiologist reports. I went to Frank Howard Bynes, M.D., a retired trauma surgeon, and practicing internal medicine M.D., here in Savannah, Ga, for help with severe pain control. I was written valid prescriptions for: Roxicodone 30 mg; Dilaudid 8 mg; Xanax 2 mg; Fentanyl 100mcg/hr transdermal patch; Soma 350 mg; Neurontin 800 mg. ALL, YES ALL local pharmacies, will NOT honor ANY of these prescriptions. I was a previous patient of David M. Nelson, M.D. here in Savannah, March 2010 to March 2013, and had to endure this same B.S. then, also. This medical community, with the exception of Dr. Bynes, refuses to help me- Where is their Hippocratic Oath allegiance??? I cannot work, nor even function normally each day, because of the severe pain. I have been living off of the proceeds from the Workman's Compensation settlement I received in October 2012, from the accident at Georgia Port Authority in October 2009, here in Savannah. About out of money now, and have no income. I need help with pharmacy information.

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Re: Joan (# 200)

I heard he gave up his GA license and is now practicing in NY

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Re: Max (# 201)

I saw your post from this morning. Do u know where in NY? I was also a patient of his in the middle of my disability claim.

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Re: Gone (# 202)

I'm sorry. I do not. Perhaps you could search medical licenses from NY state.

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The amount and type of meds you are trying to fill is completely outside the standard of care, regardless of who is prescribing them. At this point we don't mix soma and Xanax with high dose opioids. The pharmacies are protecting themselves legally by not filling this script. You are likely to have to make some changes in your med list.

Dr. Tim

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Re: 9mmMike (# 2)

Try and ask your Dr. for MS Contin 60 mg. It's time release morphine. The problem your having is the oxy and the dilaudid are both instant release. Most pharmacy's won't fill more than one instant release, but they will fill a time release also. But since your Fentanyl is time release, you can probably fill either your blues or your Dilaudid and your Soma and Xanax. I go to P.M. and get Dilaudid 8 mg. 140, Ms Contin 60mg. 56 Xanax 1mg. 90, and Soma 350mg. 56. I'm out of the pharmacy in 15-20 minutes and good for another 28 days...

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Hey all. I’ve been reading this several year old thread & my heart goes out to all of you who genuinely suffer from chronic pain. I cannot imagine your frustrations having to deal with your illnesses on top of not finding a way to fill your prescriptions to ease the symptoms. Having said all that, everyone who said that the Dr who is being investigated is blacklisted & pharmacies will no longer fill his prescriptions, most likely that is true. I am not from your area but as a former pharmacy tech & former addict I have not only gone to drs like him but have handled many prescriptions from patients who were seen by drs like him. He obviously had (has) a lot of patients who he was prescribing pain meds too. Whether legitimately or not, that raises a red flag right there. I use to see a dr who saw regular patients as well as chronic pain patients. In a short period of time, he went from having 1 practice in DC to opening another in northern Va. Word of mouth traveled fast & from the first time I visited him & seeing only a couple people in the waiting room, over a few months it got to the point where there would be a line running outside his office, past the neighboring offices, & down the street! He even hired someone to run the door to make sure no one could just walk in. People would turn up @ 3 & 4 in the morning to start getting in line to see him. It was shocking & extremely disturbing.

Of course, he eventually was raided by the DEA & I believe he lost his license. That is an extreme story but another more recent one that sounds so similar to what many of you have been dealing with in your area happened a few years ago regarding a long time local dr. He had been under investigation for a number of years before the DEA went after him & I believe they actually had acquired one of his chronic pain patients to become an informant for them. I think 9 out of 10 times he was prescribing legitimate pain meds for legitimate patients, however, it was the quantity of meds & the amounts in which he was writing prescriptions that made him become suspect. So now, though he was able to keep his medical license, he can no longer prescribe pain meds. My point in sharing that is that if the dr many of you are inquiring about doesn’t lose or hasn’t lost his license altogether, he most definitely will not be allowed to prescribe controlled substances again. Since all the pharmacies are refusing to fill scripts from him & have been, they most likely have been alerted that he is under investigation. In any other situation, if a person went to a pharmacy with a number of different controlled medications & the pharmacist was suspicious, they wouldn’t outright refuse to fill but rather would tell you they had to call your dr first to make sure everything was legit.

Some of the meds that several of you mentioned (mainly the person who is on Subutex & Xanax I believe) I am actually surprised a dr would prescribe you both of those @ the same time as benzos can have a dangerous interaction with buprenorphine. Note to that poster~ it makes sense the de wouldn’t give you another controlled substance with Subutex as Subutex is a partial agonist while regular pain meds are full agonists. Taking both types would more than likely put a person in precipitated withdrawal. FYI, if anyone has tried Suboxone/Subutex for pain & can no longer get it since it is prescribed for addicts normally, there is a new version of Buprenorphine called Butrans that comes as a patch & is prescribed solely for around-the-clock pain. A few more things really quickly; going to more than 1 dr isn’t a crime (as someone said) but dr shopping is a huge deal which is why the Prescription Monitoring System was developed for the most part. From 15 years ago to when that was not a thing pharmacists looked @ regularly to today, it is used often by most pharmacies (& drs as they can pull up your profile & find out any & all meds you’ve gotten wherever, usually looking @ the last year, so don’t lie to them about what you take & who else you may see!). The best bet for the people who are having a difficult time filling their scripts is for 1, stop going to the one dr most of you have been seeing, altogether. If you guys read each other’s posts it will become clear that the problems are the same for all of you-can’t get a pharmacy to fill the man’s scripts.

Secondly, small owned pharmacies & specialty pharmacies are your best bet. All the chain pharmacies not only can & do use prescription monitoring consistently but they all have easy access to view their specific counterparts files (for instance, I worked @ a CVS. I could search a name on the computer & in seconds pull up every other CVS in the country that you have ever had a prescription filled @. Also, they know the people who come in regularly for their pain meds. Many times the behavior of a chronic pain patient & that of an addict tend to be the same in regards to how they act when trying to obtain their meds. So judgments are often placed on customers bc of that, many who have real problems with pain, & I have seen numerous staff members act hostile towards them & sometimes bc they don’t want to even deal with them, they will tell them they can’t fill their scripts. It’s wrong & unethical but it does happen so just be aware. Lastly, it might be worth asking your dr (or once you find one) if they have a specific pharmacy they have their patients use or suggest for them to use bc a lot of times, specialty pharmacies work with the same drs regularly bc the drs either have numerous patients that take the same meds &/or are prescribed large amounts legitimately & they know their patients have difficulty finding pharmacies that carry the quantity they need & aren’t over-priced. So they will recommend a certain pharmacy that will fill the majority of their patients’ prescriptions with no hassle. It brings a lot of business to these small named & not well-known pharmacies plus often since they are specialty pharmacies, they normally don’t fill regular prescriptions. Also, there is a way to look up that dr online & see if he is still practicing. Not sure the exact name of the site but if you search, you will find it. Best of luck to all of you & I’m praying that there will be a resolution for all of you dealing with insurmountable pain so that in some ways your suffering can be alleviated even just a little bit??

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That's just a ridiculous amount of medicine, no wonder you can't get them filled..

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Re: Elam (# 207)

Who are you to judge? You're not God you don't wear a robe so you shouldn't judge what's an awful lot of medication to be filled. He asked for your help not to be shut down. Shame on you.

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Re: 9mmMike (# 2)

He was arrested by the DEA last week and facing 39 counts Distribution of control substance and Medcaid fraud,I being 1 of his former patients was visited by the DEA and US Attorney General's Office, And you will not find nowhere in Ga that will fill his prescriptions,He lost his medical license back in April. Contact the DEA office

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Re: JC (# 209)

No no no I just can't believe this. I was his patient for 5 years and was not contacted about anything.

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Re: Tim (# 205)

Tim have you ever had oxycodone 10mg? I'm on 4/day and Hysingla 30 mg ER 2/day. Just wondering how they would compare.

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Re: Carlie C (# 208)

Hey pal, I never heard of this doc, and for what it's worth I feel bad for his patients who now have to find a PM doctor asap. He didn't ask me for anything. I wear a robe after I shower, and simply being realistic. That's a volatile mix of meds period. I've been in pm long enough to know that. I don't judge, but I give my opinion on something I know a little about.. Roxicodone 30 mg; Dilaudid 8 mg; Xanax 2 mg; Fentanyl 100mcg/hr transdermal patch; Soma 350 mg; Neurontin 800 mg? Really dude?

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Re: Carlie C (# 208)

Not judging anyone, just stating the obvious.. Don't know the doc, but feel bad for the folks that have to find a new pm doc asap, cause that sucks. Do I wear a robe? Ha, yea, after a shower. ...But this? Roxicodone 30 mg; Dilaudid 8 mg; Xanax 2 mg; Fentanyl 100mcg/hr transdermal patch; Soma 350 mg; Neurontin 800 mg. That's a hell of a mix of meds..

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Re: Laura (# 206)

Well said Laura, a truly good post and thanks for your compassion. It's getting tougher and tougher now to get the relief that people need, and sounds like you've been down a road or two..

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Would like to know the quantity. A lot of times, with the scripts already raising red flags, if the quantity seems like to many, the pharmacist can and will refuse to fill fill your scripts. Also the fact that you have two instant release and a long action medication, most of the time, unless very well established, they will only fill one of each. If you used insurance, they would deny you for the same reason. Use only one ir & and the er and see if you can fill them..

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Re: Elam (# 213)

Thanks. It’s so easy for people in general to judge another & it’s sad that it’s just our nature but bc I’ve been on both sides of the coin, I empathize & have realized that judgment goes hand in hand with ignorance. The majority of the time ppl form negative opinions based off things they know nothing about firsthand or just don’t understand. I am continuously praying for everyone??

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Re: JC (# 209)

So Dr. Bynes was arrested and he lost his medical license in September 2017.

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If you have a doctor that is writing your script, sorry to say it's a matter of time till they stop them from writing pain meds cos every place where i live in Charlotte, NC makes you go to Pain Management cos DEA is controlling who fills it... So quit asking what doctor will give you Narcotics cos they won't cos the family doctor is being forced to send you to PM. I am not saying that to be mean, i am just telling you no pcp doctor will be able to write it anymore. Like i said if you have a doctor that is you are lucky but he will tell you he can't write them anymore and send you to PM.

Good luck!

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Re: Mike (# 20)

I am really confused is Dr. Bynes still at this number ot is he really in jail.

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Hi.
Been there done that. When my doctor was busted all pharmacies were alerted not to fill any prescriptions with his name on it. So I'm sure that is what's going on here meaning no one will fill this guy's prescription no way Jose. But good luck.

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