need help about going to 2 doctors for pain medicine

[sensations]

i am currently going to a doctor in NC who prescribes me methadone and oxycodone 15mg and xanax 1 mg. i made an appointment to go to a pain management doctor in virgina and i was wondering if my doctor in NC will find out and if this doctor in virgina will find out about my other doctor in NC? If i pay cash for the doctor in virgina and get my meds filled there with cash and dont use my insurance and then goto my doctor in NC and use my medicad to pay for my visit and my prescriptions will i get introuble? ive heard of people going to doctors in the same states and getting introuble i just dont know about going to different states. i know a few people who told me i should be ok as long as i dont use my medicade for both. my appointment in on the 14th in virgina and i just went to my docotor  in NC on the 4. can someone please help me out and answer my questions? someone with knowledge and some truthful, please. i google my question and all i get is b,s. so please someone help me out  and let me know. thank you so much and i hope someone can give me a truthful answer and a good one as well. thanks again.

[leeisgettingclean]

sorry, i should really not be on her tonight...i have lotz of personal probs going on in my life and i see now that i am handleing them wrong, I am sorry, I do feel that i have been picking at you all night, I do not do that, i am sorry....to be honest, something about your post has just gotin to me tonight....i guess its just the way you talk...i should respact that, or atleast disagree respectfully....I am not going to see your post neg anylonger tonight, I know that you are speaking from your heart and with your own wisdom!!!!

[melimel09]

I speak without a filter and im glad you did say what you did on the first one cuz i did need a reminder that what i say could ultimately affect someone elses rehab so i should pick my words a little more carefully at times. I think most of us on here have probs going on and sorry to hear that your having a bad time i really do hope it gets better for you! If we didnt have these bad times we wouldnt truly be able to appreciate some of the good times in some ways. Hang in there--it could be much worse im sure and it will get better!

Sensations--please dont go to that 2nd doctors appt. Maybe take even an hour and read some of the other posts on here, just a suggestions!

[leeisgettingclean]

the great thing about this forum is we can speak what we feel........i seem to have forgotten that for a bit tonight ....we dont have to use filters and it seems tonight i have been tryin to act as your filter...sorry for the last time : ) we dont have to agree on everything and if we did it would be pointless to have this forum. I admire anyone that is working towards cleaning up their life because that is our common bound, and i admire you for that very reason aswell. Keep posting--speak your mind--and thanks for putting me back in  my place---i needed it tonight!!

[sensations]

what if i go to this doctor apt on the 14th in VA and he gives me better medicine that will actually help my chronic back pain, dislocated disk, hernated disk and serveral years of  back surgery. cant i just tell my doctor in NC that i found a pain management doc since that is what he wants to refer me too? he is internal medicine. should that be a crime if i called him up after i went to the doctor in VA and said that i didn't need to see him anymore because i found me a pain management doctor? my next apt for the doctor in NC isn't until  July  4th of 2010. i don't see any  harm in that. and for everyone's information i am not a drug user. i have tried therapy, chiropractors, surgery acupuncture and PT. so don't get it twisted i am not a druggie looking  to get some extra medications.

[troubleinohio]

if youre on the Up and UP, why are you being sneaky about it then? Why would yuo make an appt out of state and not use your insurance??? that seems VERY SUSPICIOUS to me, and it will to everyone else as well including your doctors, the pharmacies and the DEA!!  Why would you just not get a direct referral from your current doctor to a pain clinic and go see them legally? It doesnt make sense to me..nope not at all. So forgive me if i suspect you are addicted (a **gasp***  DRUGGIE as you put it). Please get real with us, and with yourself. We really can help you here but you have to be honest. If youre running out meds so terribly early and need to seek out a doctor that will give you more, or a "bettter medicine", you need to reevaulate if youre just a chronic pain patient or an addict. Its a fine line. Most of us here got hooked on pills from a legit injury/condition. very few of us used "just for fun". Most of us here have chronic pain (*myself included- i also have a very bad back amongst other things)

[scaredmom330]

I have to agree with trouble, why go out of state? if your current doctor wants to send you to a pain management doctor why not just use that referral. next month you will be on here asking what to do because you went ahead with your plan, got caught and now out of meds and scared. just be on the up and up and go through your doctor. anyway, most pain manangement doctors won't prescribe narcotics the first visit without having seen your previous history and test results. What are you gonna do when they ask for a previous doctor to get your records from? it would just be wiser not to do what you are planning. if you thought if was ok, you wouldnt be on here asking for advise. good luck