Re: pain management doctor needs our help.

On Sep 30, 10:59 am, "Blinded" <blin...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<jennieandch...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:1191127939.315538.318520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>I know that there is so many problems with all of these attacks on
doctors who write for pain meds and that the DEA thinks that they are
doing good with it all. My pain doctor is asking for our help. He
wants a listing of all of the support and informative sites that we
use. He also wants stories about chronic pain patients of any type.
He said that you can make it annonymous or keep your doctors
information out of it if you feel the need but the more he has the
better. He is trying to use this information to reform AZ law and to
use it to get the federal govt to lay off states and how they treat
pain. He is also hoping that the more he has the stronger of a case
he has with those he is dealing with. Please send what you can to me
and he will use it only to booster our cases with the law makers and
the govt.
Jennie

Jennie,

I do not understand what the problem is that you are having with AZ laws.
So far, I have had no problems receiving opiate medications in the state of
Arizona.
As a matter of fact, If necessary, I could go to any one of three different
doctors to get the prescriptions
I need for pain medications.
I understand that some people have problems getting a doctor to prescribe
them the opiates, but if you have a "pain doctor" that should not be a
problem for you.
So what am I missing>

Mark

Mark,
I think that you misunderstand what I am saying. I have no problems
getting pain managment and have two doctors who can write meds for me
if one of them can't however many people here do not have that
luxery. Insurance companies fight referals to pain management doctors
unless patients meed certain criteria, doctors are scared to write for
meds while patients wait to get into pain management clinics and a big
problems is things like the arrest of Dr. Hassman who was a pain
management doctor. AZ has some of the better laws regarding pain
treatment but there are always needs for improvement especially with
the DEA attacking doctors without telling them that they have problem
patients. A doctor who called the DEA to ask them what to do about a
problem patient was arrested!

I have no worries about my doctor and this is not why he is asking for
our help. He called a town meeting of doctors after what happened to
Dr. Hassman to educate them on what they need to do to protect
themselves and wants stories from us to help them understand why pain
managment is so important. He also wants them to see the large
variety of patients who are being treated, why and how their lives
have changed with treatment. For me, I was unable to do almost
anything until I got on a low dose of medications and we are still
trying to find the right one so that I can enjoy a better quality of
life. As it is I can do a load of dishes, maybe a load or two of
laundry and I am spent for the day and hurt so bad that I can't do
much else. I have four boys to care for and I need to be able to keep
them clean, the house clean enough that there isn't mold or food in
the sink...things like that. What he wants them to understand that
even with the long list of diagnosis I have, there are no physical
signs of the fact that I am in pain unless I show it on my face with
winces and groans.

The point of the town meeting is to make the doctors understand that
the physicians group who said that they should not write for pain meds
is wrong in stating this. He wants to educate doctors on how to treat
pain in ways that protect them and their patients. He wants to teach
them about the purpose of pain contracts, how to document medication
or dose changes, he wants to show them the kinds of exams and lines of
questioning that help find out patients who are not being truthful.
He wants to encourage them to take some of the advice of the
physicians group here and request old records but keep in mind that
patients who go from doctor to doctor might not be medication seeking
but may just be looking for adequate pain managment. He is going to
educate them to look at the medications prescribed, how much and how
often the patient requested refills. If it looks like they are drug
seeking he is going to teach them a specific line of questioning to
help the doctor find out if they were not getting relief from what
they were on or if they were taking all of it and looking for more.
It isn't going to be easy but he wants to have a list of all of our
resources to help him see where it is that we learn about pain
management, where we go for support and things like this. He is
hoping to set up a system where patients tell their doctors their
names on certain sites and in the pain contract allow the doctors to
have someone check on their postings to see if they are exhibiting
addict behaviors. People who come online and ask about how they can
get a certain medication may be questioned about why they were looking
for that information. Patients who come on and are saying that they
are so upset and frustrated because they hurt will have something that
their doctors can actually see support thier claims that they aren't
getting enough pain relief.

This is a long way off of course but things like this is a start. I
have no problems adding to my pain contract that my doctor can come
here and read my postings to see if I am exhibiting addict behavior or
if I am looking for support or if I am trying to find ways to deal
with the fact that I don't have enough pain coverage.

He wants to know the sites we go to so that he can put them on a
website for us to be able to find all of these resources in one spot.
He wants our stories so that he can use them to support what he is
saying about how many people do not get enough pain coverage, how many
people have gone from the bottom of the barrel to being able to go out
once a week.
Jennie

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