Doctors Who Will Prescribe Pain Medication In Huntsville Al (Page 4) (Top voted first)

My pain management doc got investigated and now hes closed his practice down. I was getting 30mg oxycodone 5 times a day and morphine 15mg 2 times a day. Does anybody know a doctor in huntsville alabama that will keep me on my meds, need answer ASAP!

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I hear you...I just turned 33 but at the age of 20 multiple doctors told me I had 4 hurniated/bulging disk with degenerative disk disease,pinched nerve, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, you can always tell when its going to rain, the back is clearly from car wreck but I thought you had to be at 30 anyway to have the rest, anyway Hendricks in athens aint going to give oxys or percs but will give 4 norcos/4barrs or 3 subutex/3 barrs...hes in athens, I can't go to him anymore because the dumb ass cops chatge me with dui after argueing with my girlfriend in the car because they saw the xanax bottle...the doc later scene the newspaper of the event...so kicked me out, charge was later dropped but I was screwed, Good Luck...oh has anyone heard of Gulati, if so will he rx...

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Dr Davis in Athens and on south parkway at south park way medical clinic but I recommend going to the one in Athens they are much nicer good luck!

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Ha!! If you go along with their "pain shots" therapy, they will prescribe...if that type of therapy doesn't help you, then they have no help for you.

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Great post, and thanks for the link to help locate practicing pain management docs in any given area. I've saved it to use along with the "healthgrades" web site I use to look up doctors and see what's in their practice history, among other things, as well as reviews other patients have left about a given doctor. Good to know before you go....

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jinxy.... if you're experiencing severe depression from all of your other health issues, you likely need the help of a practicing psychiatrist. Nothing to be ashamed of in that. It's not a problem that happy thoughts will clear up all the time. If you are desperately depressed, take yourself to your local hospital's ER and tell them what kind of emotional shape you are in. Do not let your state of depression go on and on, untreated. If you've been severely depressed for more than two weeks, and you're not able to pull out of it on your own, you need to find the kind of physician who can get you back on track.

Chemical changes occur in your brain with depression, and if it goes on untreated, the chemical imbalance will not right itself again. For that, you need the kind of drugs that "reset" the chemical balance in your brain. It's NOT any kind of weakness!

We are all stuck living dealing with the certain chemical balances or imbalances in our brains, either from birth, or from some event(s) that caused our brain chemistry to alter to being on the negative, down side. You cannot fight imbalanced brain chemistry with cheerful thoughts alone. Go to this web site: healthgrades.com, and look up doctors in your area that deal with people experiencing depression that won't clear up on its own.

Or, tell your other physicians that you are experiencing severe depression, that it won't go away, and get them to refer you to the kind of doctor you need to treat depression which IS a physical ailment; not just lousy coping skills that you should be ashamed of not being able to deal with on your own.

Bless you and good luck to you!!!

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To: pain patients advocate. You live in NE AL, right? Then you could self-refer yourself to the Tennessee Valley Pain Consultants group for help with chronic pain. They have their main office in downtown Huntsville, AL, but do have other locations in N. Alabama as well, I believe.

If you do call them and make an appointment, when you have your appointment, try to take as much information about your conditions that cause pain as is possible for you to take with you. X-rays are a really good thing to have, if your pain is caused by physical problems. If you have nerve pain, but nothing would show on an x-ray, if you have any records from your other doctors, take them with you.

Also, you will likely have to have a drug panel before the TVPC will prescribe anything to you. If you are currently taking prescribed pain meds, take the prescription bottles with you to your appointment. If the TVPC can help you, you will have to sign a written agreement not to get the same pain meds from any other doctor while you are a patient of the TVPC.

They have ways to look up all prescriptions any doctor has written for you, so to have two different doctors prescribing you the same pain meds at the same time, could cause the TVPC to stop treating you.

I know this clinic very well, and both I and my husband have been patients there over the years. They are very good, but won't tolerate anyone using illegal drugs, or even if, on an unanticipated drug panel, they find some prescription drug in your body that you were not prescribed, it could mean the end of your relationship with the TVPC.

Don't let that happen. Follow the rules, and that group of doctors and their physician's assistants will be very, very good to you.

Good luck!

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In reply to pain patients advocate: My husband had a congenital spine problem from birth and way back in the 60's as a kid, he started having spine surgeries. Of course, that was before knowledge of the development of spinal arachnoiditis came to the fore.

He's got it, and it's bad for him. He says when he walks, it feels like he's walking on broken glass, even if he's simply walking on soft carpet.

As I've said in other posts, all doctors have to get a DEA license in order to prescribe. Some doctors, because of the nature of their specialty, are automatically allowed to write lots of scripts for drugs of potential abuse, such as the opioid pain meds. Pain Management Specialists must go through an extra 4 years of medical training beyond all others in order to allow them to get the kind of DEA license that lets them write pain med scripts month by month and year by year, if a patient with a chronic pain condition needs those drugs.

Not even a spine doctor has the kind of DEA license privilege that will allow them to keep writing pain med scripts indefinitely for the patients they've done surgery on. ONLY a Pain Management Specialist doctor can go on and on, writing lots of pain med prescriptions without getting into trouble with the DEA.

In the North Alabama area, I recommend the Tennessee Valley Pain Consultant group of doctors and their physician assistants to people with long term chronic pain. As I've said elsewhere, you can self-refer yourself to that group of doctors. Do take all diagnostic history kinds of things with you to your first appointment, along with all the prescription bottles for the drugs you are currently taking. On your first visit, you might have to go through a blood or urine drug panels before the TVPC will treat you.

As long as you follow the rules after becoming a patient, the TVPC will be very, very good to you. My husband and I know this from our own experience with this doctor group.

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If you have long term, chronic pain issues and need medication for them, you can self-refer yourself to the Tennessee Valley Pain Consultants group of doctor specialists. They are located across the street from Huntsville Hospital Main, and about a half block closer to the Parkway than is the hospital. They are very good, and do not under treat or over treat in both my and my husband's experience.

Their phone number is 256-265-PAIN. Call any weekday between about 8:30 and 4:30 to set up an initial appointment. This group is really, really good at managing pain. They do not push epidurals or other procedures on you automatically. They WILL effectively help you manage your pain with medication, once you become their patient. But, you will have to sign a "contract" with them stating you will not go to other doctors for any pain meds on top of what this group gives you. If you do that, and they do have ways of checking, it could mean a warning to you, or they could decide to simply stop treating you as a patient. Simply follow their rules, and your pain will be managed to your satisfaction. If at any time you don't think the drug(s) they prescribed are effective anymore, just tell them at your next visit and they will find something else.

My husband is in a lot worse shape then me, and they do all they can to ensure that whatever they have prescribed to him is effective. As soon as that is no longer the case, he tells them, and they find a different drug for him. You won't hear any staff at this group tell you to "just walk it off," if you are hurting. If you are hurting they will fix it.

On your first visit, you may have to have a drug panel done. Be sure before the drug panel that you tell them EVERYTHING you are currently taking, and it helps to have the actual prescription bottles with you for proof. Don't even try to see this group if you've engaged in taking illegal substances, as they won't take you on as a regular patient if they find illegal stuff in your drug panel results. Don't forget to tell them of every drug you are currently taking, and if you are taking anything that you weren't legally prescribed, don't even go to this group until everything is out of your body and you've decided never to use illegal substances again, as there will be periodic, unannounced drug panels while you are a patient of this clinic. Just do good, follow the rules and laws, and you will be wonderfully cared for. Both I and my husband know so from personal experience there.

Good luck!

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Obama has turned a seriously flawed medical system to something that is LESS affordable for many many people. Who in their correct mind would allow Nancy Pelosi preside over this anyway? She has pushed socialized medicine for years. Does it work? Sometimes....but slots of folks who have money come to the USA for surgeries. Like...why?..it it is so wonderful. Sorry....Obama is so Socialist leanings....it scares me. But...the pill docs brought the wrath upon themselves by not using a balanced approach.

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I wonder if DocSkep has went through withdraws himself since he sounds so knowledgable of what is will be like for every person here. Makes it sounds like a walk in the park. I'm sorry but I would have to believe if that this DocSkep truly has ALS? That he is not sitting and suffering in pain and does take meds for it. I would bet that he wouldn't want to have to stop his meds if his pain is really as bad as he says it is. Sorry.. friend. I don't buy it. Withdraws for any pain patient that are forced into it, can be fatal. BP can get out of control along with heart rate. I feel that was such a BS bogus post. Come on now.. if your having pain like child birth, your not going to be able to live right withdraw. Nope. That was spammer folks. Pain that is severe requires medications and you as a free American have rights to have your pain controlled. Look up the Pain Patients Bill of Rights! It does exist.

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I went to my last neurologist appointment and the office was closed. Have been on low dose opiods for 7 yrs. No access to records for new doc. Where are the ethics of these highly paid, hypocratic oath swearing people we trust w our lives? Interested in your petition. I do not get a high from meds just able to live.

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I used to go to tn valley PC. They would only give me 3 10mg tabs/day, unless I had surgery to sever the main nerve to my leg(gunshot wound to tibia very painful it went through the bone and broke it) I told them if I had the surgery then they would claim I didn't need meds, plus I have two friends that have had the same surgery, and they're in wheelchairs for life. So, do what you need to do. I don't recommend method. clinic been down that road it is worse to come off of that anything, I used to do 5 oxy 80's a day, so believe me its a rough way to go. Good luck all my bros and sis's.

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This information from docskep is totally wrong and can cost you a life.

If you have been on any opioid therapy for a long period you should if you want to be off this medication do so with a humane provider who is willing to work with you to lower your dosages comfortably.

My medical records state from the top pain specialist in America "interruption of her medication supply will result in death."

Where do these do gooders come from they do "no good" for those in intractable pain.

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I need a family practice Dr that writes pain meds

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Do NOT see Dr. Scherlis from ten valley pain comsultants. Not sure ab the other doctors there but he will NOT give you medication. He will, but it wont be much. I have herniated discs and bulging discs along with DDD and he pushed me into getting epidurals and even though i have been on 10mg norcos 3 times a day for 7 months, he said thay was too much and said he would only give me 5mg Norco 2times a day. What a joke. Didnt even talk about weaning me down either. So basically he wants to send patients into withdrawls

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Who cares if folks are asking where to find a doctor because Dr.Agg, that's what I call him.. Anyways, who cares, I'm not looking at there name and hell I know what it's like not having a doctor but I never went to that quack anyways an hell he's so dumb that he should have known he couldn't write all that stuff to EVERYONE THAT WALKED IN HIS OFFICE!!! I DON'T LIVE IN HUNTSVILLE BUT YOU'RE DUMB CONSIDERING IT DOESN'T HURT ANYONE TO TELL SOMEONE WHERE THEY COULD FIND A DOCTOR. OF COURSE, YOU DON'T TELL YOUR FRIENDS OR ENEMIES WHO YOU GO TO!!!

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They are scamming people! They use to change $200 but when some of the other Dr. Offices closed they went up....It is a crime what they are doing so don't be supprised when the DEA close their doors..

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I will happily go in with you on that legal suit. Let me know if you are serious..

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