need professional advice asap

[nicki223]

I am looking for some professional advice before I approah my doctor with this situation. I am currently 11 weeks pregnant. I have previously been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a fractured spine,  curvature reversal, buldging disks, pinched nerves, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, migraines, and high uric acid. They originally prescribed me percocet 7.5mg limit 6 a day, nuerontin 600mg tid, and esgic plus 50-500-40mg however my insurance stopped covering the percocet 7.5mg and so they had to prescribe me the 5/325! I just found out I was pregnant at 10 weeks 3 days my obgyn said that th percocet was fine for me to continue howeveri would have to disconinue the other medications. My problem is tht the 5mg percocet was already not helping enough with my pain and now stopping the other medications its really not enough! I was hoping they could prescribe me with somthing stronger that I could take less of each day as my biggest concern is the many percocets I have to take each day just to be mobile wll harm my unborn child! I am concerned that although my obgyn has oked the oxycodone my pcp will not feel comfortable continuing to presribe the medication and especially not prescribing something of a higher dosage! Between the risk of withdrwls that can be potentially fatal to the growing fetus and the fact that I can not move or fuction without any medications I can not afford to be cut off of the only medication that has been oked to not harm my baby! How can I go about speaking to my doctor about this?

[msnova74]

Look up the website for the mayday project.  They have many articles published in mainstream journals, by reputable respected physicians that you can use to plead your case.

Hope this helps

[acker]

hell of a predicament.
the pain management forum may have more answers, if you haven already posted there