Someone tried to tell me it was just my governor that had enacted some pretty demanding information regarding each and every pain medication script an MD writes... but no, a relative in another State --directly on government insurance-- was just prevented from getting a new script as well.
My MD seems to convey the idea that the demands by the government are too much and she===and the rest of the MDs in the area== aren't going to play. Now the doctor is supposed to fill in a huge questionaire with the patient for EACH pain medication script he or she writes. (Which means every month for each chronic pain patient!)
I inquired if it was that it took too much time to do that, so they won't?
No.
I inquired if it was that they didn't get recompensed for their time then, that they won't?
No.
They just aren't going to do it.
I was told to find a Pain Specialist instead.
Right.... a disabled person on her own to find a specialist who is taking new patients, who has time to put her into the schedule within 30 days, who will see said patient (me) and determine all that is wrong with me (since they never take other doctor's opinions) and to go through all those tests and MRIs (gotta have updated ones you know, the lesion in the spinal cord may have disappeared), and get authorization for all those tests (I'm still waiting for that for one from 5 years ago btw)... AND let them be authorized for ongoing care (assuming the doctor isn't already paid off by the disability insurance company to say there's "nothing" wrong with me that needs ongoing care...) AND get a script for the only pain medication I'm NOT allergic to??
sure... I can do that.
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ah ha! ((((hugs Ruth))) Well..... this could be good news... I received word from a care provider that my management company has changed. Well, that wasn't good news really...since the co changed I needed to contact my MD for a new script for the physical therapist... THAT'S how I found out about the change in the management company, which means the opposing attorney has changed and the claims adjuster has also changed. I wonder when MY attorney would be enlightening me on this necessary information?
HOWEVER, the former opposing attorney couldn't or wouldn't get the adjuster to budge on many things... useless and mean spirited. I figured he'd retire and things would change... but the whole management company for the disability insurance company???
OKAY since you're praying for good for me, and this has suddenly occurred...we will bless GOD for the change, and have faith that this means I will finally receive the things and additional care I need!
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I just happened upon another site (trying to run links to my new management company===not mine, the one that the company who pays me disability has hired to manage medical care)... and I ended up on a Texas site where it says they implemented new guidelines for pain medicines late last year...
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I'm listening even though I don't understand all the red tape stuff. I'm continuing to pray for your healing and for your pain to be managed well by someone good~you deserve the best of care.
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Nor I either. IDK if now that there is a new company managing the health claims for the company I worked for if they will be allowed to have me go to doctors for all my claimed ills and disability, to prove through their own doctors that they do indeed need to provide the medical assistance they provide... OR if that will not be cost effective and they'll leave people like me alone. I am an oddity, being grandfather in because of how long ago I was injured. Most people today are forced to settle for a pittance due to the new worker comp regulations foisted upon the people by the insurance companies.
Now that I 've said that, it WOULD be cost effective to make me "go away" since I am an ongoing til I die expense.
See? This is just one reason I really really do look for the rapture SOON!
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Pain medication laws here in the United States are getting ridiculous. I think it is stupid that we who suffer from chronic pain have to suffer so much just because a bunch of other people abuse the medication. I think what they need to do is actually crack down on the abusers and make things easier to get pain prescriptions for those of us who clearly really need it.
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It isnt just your insurance company either. Medicare has stringent guidelines with a panel of doctors who dictate whether or not you need the medication you are on and in what quantity. And that is outside of what my personal doctor recommends who knows me and my case for the past eleven years! For crying out loud, they put a cap on my Zomig which is not even a pain med. Six per month, that is like saying sorry you are only allowed to have a migraine three times a month!
And I was wondering what was going on with the pain medication situation. All of our clinics no longer carry any pain medication, you have to go to the emergency room for that. And most specialist now wont prescribe any pain medication.
Crazy huh, it was the doctors and pharmacutical companies that pushed pain meds on us to begin with. I would have never known there was anything out there to help my pain had they not introduced it to me. So not fair. But what can we do?
Well enough of my rant. Hope they will give you what you need.
New Pain Medicine guidelines in USA??? 
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