Help! - Help! * In desperate loss-of-pain-medication, in need of fast referral or ANY referral to pain specialist in area (NY 10930/10950 area)

From: IAS Admin (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Sat Aug 30 21:51:40 2008


From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of MJ3 Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:05 PM Subject: Help! - Help! * In desperate loss-of-pain-medication, in need of fast referral or ANY referral to pain specialist in area (NY 10930/10950 area)

Hello -   I have written a few times over the years I've been on this list. My name is Jack, and after a major-surgery to finally remove a leaking gallbladder (about 5 years too late to avoid permanent problems) PLUS the adhesions that I have suffered with since 1996.   The pain was so unbearable, I couldn't get out of bed, and sometimes couldn't move at all.  If I did manage to make it out the door to to something, anything, it usually ended with me rolling in a ball of pain on the grass, sidewalk, back seat, etc... wherever I happened to be when the pain hit.   No doctor would give me pain medicine - I had to go doctor-hopping - but that was not a sure thing, and I needed a for sure pain medicine prescription on a regular basis.   So a 'friend' suggested the Methadone Clinics where heroin addicts go to stop taking the worse drug for a legal, daily dose of Methadone. and THAT, despite having to lie about my situation and giving a clean urine on admission (they looked at my pained face, figured that was a mistake since who would lie about being a drug addict.  ?  ) And I've been on "Methadone Maintenance" for 8 years straight now, at an unusually high dose since as we know tolerance kicks in.  So my current dose is 170mg, and the Methadone is the cheapest the county can offer, lasting just 6 hours of pain relief over the usual 24 hours with one dose with the brands used prior.   ANYWAYS - The clinic can no longer keep me on as a client - not for using illegal drugs, not for doing anything 'wrong' - but because they have been told by the County of Rockland to boot out everyone from Orange County - it's a tax issue, and a county fight that now pushes to enroll in a new clinic 2 hours each way, IF they have an opening, ALL to be done in 4 days - OR PERHAPS I CAN FIND A PAIN RELIEF DOCTOR NEAR ME WILLING TO PRESCRIBE THIS DOSE TO ME. The way I should have been doing from the start.   Hence - my HELP! in the subject Line Above.   I Am very very afraid...  1.) of the detox that would occur if this dose is suddenly stopped (last time on 40mgs I went into grand mall seizures, and hospital said I could have died. what can I do?  I can't find anyone who knows anyone willing to prescribe Methadone especially coming from a Methadone Maintenance Program. Can Anybody Please Help? I am Desperate and Very Scared. and they JUST told me this weekend, leaving me very little to no time.   any and all referrals, ideas very welcomed - and appreciated. - Jack in Orange County NY - In The Hudson Valley, 10930/10950 area thank you


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