Medication list - Fibromyalgia Message Board

Hope4All · 02-20-2008, 08:37 PM

Hi everyone!

I just read an old post with the title "medication list". This was a very eye opening post!

I was told by my pain management dr that after taking Vicodin 7.5 mgs @ 2x's a day that there would be no where else for me to go after my body gets use to this amount. Then I read what many are on and I see that is so not true!

Last time this man wanted to start weaning me off! I told him this is the ONLY thing that is allowing me to function. He left my 60 pills alone!

I was so scared that I made an appt with my regular physician, I went in today and told him, I need to try another anti depressant...because I don't know what this pain management Dr is going to do! He gave me Celexa, and he upped my Neurontin from 600 to 800 2x's a day.

Can your regular physcian prescribe Narcotics for you? I am to see him again in a month to go over my current meds. And if he can I'm going to ask if he can take over my Vicodin prescriptions and drop my Pain management Dr.

You all are so lucky that your drs care enough to treat your pain.....I'm very happy that you guys aren't being treated like I am !

Hope

bluelakelady · 02-21-2008, 08:01 AM

hi hope,
my internist scripts all my meds. my pain meds are for arthritis. honestly i never found a drug that would get me thru a flare up. my doc and i agree on the limits per month. she is generous and i am careful.
yes a g.p. can script pain meds. i find it better to have all my meds come from one doc. since i have 8 of them i had to decide. we all prefer it this way.
i hope you find a doc like my dear laura. please know i had to fire alot of others on my journey to finding her. she was worth it.
peace,
blue

Grapedy · 02-21-2008, 11:25 AM

Totally! When you're dealing with normal narcotics, any doctor can prescribe them. For most FM patients, a pain management doc is really overkill IMO. Some patients do really need the extra help, but a lot of them don't.

And the 7.5mg of Vicodin is the middle one. 10mg is the strongest.

The more of your meds that you can get from one doctor the better! Dangerous interactions happen when you have multiple docs prescribing multiple meds. Most specialists don't pay any attention to what everyone else has prescribed, just what they're prescribing. My case in point for this is what just happened to Heath Ledger. If somebody had been paying attention to his medications and taken the time to look at them all, he'd still be here.

Hope4All · 02-21-2008, 05:45 PM

Thanks to the both of you

When I see my regular Dr I make sure I inform him as to what my pain dr has me on. Which is just the vicodin. And I also tell the pain dr what my regular doctor gives me.

It just seems to me that my regular dr seems so much more compassionate. I was under the impression that only pain management could give out narcotics.

When I finally decided I needed something for the pain I called my regular Drs office and the office girl told me I needed a Rheumatologist for my fibro pain. So I never thought to ask my regular Dr. I will ask him next month when I see him again .

Hope

bluelakelady · 02-22-2008, 07:25 AM

hi hope,
just tell him you feel safer with only one doctor scripting your meds and you prefer it be him as you feel safer with his personality than you do the other doc. also inform him if he does say yes, what you were told by X who is at the front desk. it is not for staff to decide such things unless instructed by the doctor.
peace,
blue