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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?
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Hello and hope you are doing well.

You could ask the concerned doctor to send a supporting document to the insurance agencies asking them to sanction for your medication. Your treating physician can also send recommendation letters to them. If all the above are not helping then ask your doctor for an alternate medication.

Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
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Nicki hi i would print this page and show him or her,look them in the eye and be honest.I myself have been going the same process w/med.s for years.  hope this helps.
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