Can doctors just stop prescribing pain medication to patients after yrs prescribed them?

[Sparkytc]

I have been diagnosed with lower lumbar degenerative disease back in 1997. Back then it was only classified as arthritis, I am now only 36 an back then 25 and I was given Motrin 800mg 3 times a day. This worked for a few years but working at jobs being on my feet 8-10 hours a day the medication was just not doing the job. I went to my primary Dr. who unfortunatly where I live is a small clinic with mostly residents who leave after a year or 2 having me to start all over with another who most always has a different opinion of what treatment is best. After 2+ years of trying multiple medications and being without insurance at the time I went through medications like Celebrex, Vioxx, Peroxicam, and every NSAID there was with little to no relief. Well I was eventually fired from my job due to the fact my productivity was showing decline do to back pain. I had 1 MRI done in 1998 an then another 4 yrs later at that point I was put on 7/325 mg Hydrocodone 3 times a day. This was amazing how much relief I had gotten after all these years. I still have been on the Motrin 800 for the past 12 yrs which they do nothing but following doctors orders. Last year I had been given a new Doctor/Resident and I asked if I could have a recent MRI done, she responded no because you have degenerative disease that its only going to show more degeneration why should the money be spent on it and continued to prescribe the medications. On July 5th I was in another vehicle motor accident adding upper back pain to my current condition so my doctor, at this time was a new resident, who had increased my hydrocodone to 6 at 10/650mg per day. After 2 months of this I felt this just was too much medication and spoke with her about some type of long acting 12 hour pain medication, She mentioned Methodone, I agreed with the methadone due to the fact it can also get me off or minimize the narcotics I was on and the Hydrocodone was dropped to 3 a day an given 2 methodone per day. 4 days later I started having memory loss, I was bloated and had huge red blotches all over my body. I was taken off the methodone immediatly. But instead of offering something to try an help me get off the narcotics she put me on MS Contin which in my opinion was yes may help with pain but not help me get off the narcotics. As of last week my 12 yr old daughter who is bipolar and now in a treatment facility for medication review had decided to run to the doctor an throw out a long tale of how I am not myself anymore an the medications have changed me. Even though my daughter stated to her that she is a pathalogical liar and lies constantly. The only reason I can think why she did this was because me an her mom had a large argument the night before because she wanted to go out with friends on a school nite an she threw a tantrum and eventually tried to jump out her 3rd floor window, I stopped her but was injured by getting kicked in the groin and abdomen but made calls to her therapist and was making appointments to get her into a Pediatric EMH program to get her help. The Doctor had child services take her and again she is getting the help she needs but after hearing a 12 yr olds story she called me in and proceeded to decare that I am officially to recieve no more narcotic medications ever again. She has even claimed that she is going to mark my charts in bold letters "NO NARCOTICS". This doctor wanted nothing to hear what I had to say about the incident believing my daughter 100%. have been on the Hydrocodone for over 5 yrs and the MS Contin for 3 months there are days I will admit I may take an extra 1 for a long day working outside an then other days I may take less but I guess my original question is...Is a doctor allowed to just stop you dead on all your medications just like that and not to offer you any help either finding a detox facility or any help...it has now been 7 days off my medication an I can barely get out of bed or I get woken up multiple times per night because of my back pain. I have tried every place that does inpatient or outpatient detox by use of Suboxome but all are full or not booking until January. This doctor has taken my home and my family an torn us apart an had made our lives just each day more an more stressful, I cant go running from ER to ER because that is wrong and I know I shouldnt but when my Doctor said if I dont get to a detox facility I could end up looking for heroin on the street. What kind of Doctor says that to a patient?
Are doctors allowed to stop narcotic medications immediatly even if I have a documented medical back problems? and who can I contact because of this.
Mike

[rvsrsr]

hi buddy I have been on Norco for 10 years now  I got osteoarthritis ,in both knees.they need replaced I will not let them do it,i got it in my shoulder I got to get it fixed also.its in to many parts of my body,i cant take nsaids they make my kidneys bleed,i started with 7./5 for year or so then 10/500 4 years right side was sore thought it was my liver,keep in mind I don't drink or do any other drug,never took more then 3 a day.tolddoctor cut it down to 10/325 now I take 3or4 a day,if  the pain from the arthrititis
don't hurt that day,i  have to take it for the withdraw pain which makes the arthritis pain worse and wakes it up.now I don't want them but my body depends on them.i told the doctors he says for as long as I been takeing them im maintaining them well just keep doing what im doing.bad I know now im a pill jukie thanks doctors

[rvsrsr]

THE DOCTORS GOT LOTS OF PEOPLE
ON DRUGS THAT NEVER HAD OR NEVER WOULD HAVE HAD A DRUG
PROBLEM IN THERE LIVES IN THE LAST 10 YEARS WRITEING HYDRCODONE MEDS AND GETTING PAID FOR EACH ONE THEY WROTE.NOW THEY ARE HOOKED AND NOW THEY WANT TO CUT  THEM OFF AND GO COLD TURKEY.THEY WERE LEGEAL DRUG PUSHERS,NOW THE LAW AND THE COURTS ARE MAKEING MONEY
OFF OF THE SAME POOR HURT PEOPLE THAT TRUSTED THE DOCTORS FOR HELP AND IT WAS ALL FOR MONEY AGAIN

[rvsrsr]

BUDDY I BEEN ON THEM FOR TEN YEARS,GOOD LUCK I GOT OFF
ONCE ,THEN I HURT MY LEG AND GOT REAL BAD ARTHRITIS ,CANT TAKE NSAIDS THEY MAKE ME BLEED,DONT GET HURT OR HAVE TO
GET OPERATED ON  OR YOU WLL BE PUT RIGHT BACK ON THEM LIKE I WAS GOD BLESS YOU

[momwithnosleep]

I am very knew here so I don't know about dr however I do know that after 4 years of hydr0 10/325 4 times per day; i cut to 2 per day for 1 day and the 2nd day i only took a half. Even though i was "anxious" and felt like crap my 13 year old daughter made the comment (She thought it was because i was out of RLS meds) and the emotions CRYING was PMS.)

"Even though you got RLS and are PMSing, you have smiled more the last 3 days than I have ever saw. YOUR DIFFERENT!"

As she said this she had a grin from ear to ear which my husband & had noticed in the last year were becoming less and less frequent. We  thought puberty, hormones etc.

Even though my whole detox process started less than a week ago; every day that I get better, i see changes in her for the better.

i grabbed what i thought was a new notebook out of her desk when i started my detox journey that I was going to use to journal. Before writing in it i skimmed the pages to make sure she wasnt using it. I found 1 page in the entire 5 subject notebook that had been written on. She is a singer/muscian and it was where she was writing a "song" titleded mom. There was only one line written and it said more than a million other words could have.

"Mom why do you hate me?"

I don't, won't and can't EVER hate her. But thats how she felt. And because of the medications I have been taken (as prescribed by dr) I could not tell how I was treating her. Her actions were reactions to mine.

I have a little experience with Bipolar. My husbands little sister & her son have it. I know that makes the situation unique. But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read this and think VERY hard about the things she says about you.

Ps pain meds can make pain "worse".