by law

[ckjb]

a pain doctor who has prescribed me 4 -4mg dilaudids a day and 2- 60mg morphines a day ,has sudddenly dropped me . can he legally send me on my way with nothing at all until i find another doctor? and what do i do now to keep from going into withdrawal?

[ckjb]

Its funny that you said no doctor in their right mind.This was the first time i visited this doctor and the medication i mentioned is what he gave me right away. I saw him a month ago today and his office called me yesterday and asked that i come in for a pill count.(i have never heard of that before) My previous doctor of almost 2 years never did that but did give you urine tests.Because i dont drive and have to arrange for my transportation to visits, i could not get there and so they dropped me. I took the last of my meds today, and dont know what to do, or what is going to happen if i dont get meds in me soon.I cant imagine why they would be that cruel.

[genamarie]

It's possible. After working in a pharmacy for 2 years, I've learned a lot about doctors, pain pills, and the prescription process of these medications. Doctors can without notice, refuse to prescribe anything, or drop patients. They don't really have to have a reason, but majority of the time it's either because the patient was a substance abuser, or they lost their ability to write prescriptions for narcotics, or a patient might have "fulfilled" the necessity of receiving such high strength narcotics (it's becoming something more closely watched now a days that based on the incident/accident and based on the time period a patient has been on the meds, they basically have to wean you off, there's nothing you can do, but they have a time period that they feel a patient would actually need the meds for), or they just have a higher volume of patients than expected. Don't take it personally, I would contact the office to ask if another doctor there might see you, just in the mean time, or if they would at least be able to tell you what happened. As for obtaining the narcotics, no doctor in their right mind especially at a first appointment would willingly prescribe you the quantity and strength of narcotic you've mentioned, it's not about you, it's just not something that would look good on them and could cost them their license. Talk it over with the office/your old doctor, and see what can be done, if anything.