04.25
In reading the recent posts, I am astounded by what I read. How do you folks get docs to Rx these drugs? Why am I having such a tough time getting anything? How many docs did you have to go thru 1st? Around where I live (very rural), if you change docs at all they see you as a drug seeker and doc shopper.
I finally got the nurse practioner in my local clinic to give me a Rx of percocet, 1st pain relief I’ve had in over 2-1/2 yrs…she gave me 60 pills the last week of october and I still have about 10 left, I have been hoarding them big time. As I have pain everyday, all day (wake up with the darn things), I only take them if I need to go somewhere, or it is a special occasion. I don’t think this is right. If we are in pain, aren’t they supposed to help us?
any suggestions would be welcome…
I get a regular prescript for fioricet from my doc.. it took five years of “your a drug seeker, you dont have migraines, its all in your head” to finaly find a doctor who would listen, understood, and didnt want to go and retry every med id already tried that 1. didnt work and 2. id had reactions to. They were giving me roxicet for the really super bad ones but with a recent diagnosis of fibromyalgia they have switched me to Traumadol instead ecause its supposed to help the muscle pains too. They now think that my previously no-known-cause migraines are probably fibromyalgia related, (not nessecarily only triggered by). But its taken 5+ years of fighting, frustration, digging through doctors to find a good one.. Ive had fibro symptoms since i was a little girl so its taken them even longer to figure that one out. Theyre meds i take with caution, and hate it every time i have to.. i understand about not taking them, even though i have an “easier” time getting them, its just one of those things. I have migraines almost every day as well, and i only take those when i absolutely cannot stand the pain anymore.. I think thats a good thing though, to be frugal with those types of medications.
My suggestion would be to find a doctor who understands, and if nothing else works for you for pain treatment, is willing to prescribe it, because he/she knows you are not a drug seeker. I think every single one of us here has probably heard that term at some point during our migraine treatment, and its an unfair label that
gets placed on almost any pain patient, esp when its something that they cannot point to physicaly and say “This is exactly whats wrong and this is how we fix it”…
I hope this made sense. two of my kids were up last night so im running on about an hour of sleep. Probably rambled.