I was seeing my primary care doc for about a year now. He was nice and everything was going well. I was not aware of all the rules around pain management and pain prescriptions. So yesterday my doctor cut me off as his patient and of my pain meds also because another doctor prescribed me subutex. What happend was a lost my prescription and was told to go to the suboxon clinic just to get some until I could refill my pain medicine. Which was bad advice from a lady. So my doctor saw that I had another prescription and cut me off. I have no pain contract with the original primary doc but he saw it as I was doctor shopping. Which I didn't even know was a thing nor was I trying to doctor shop. What should I do to find a new doctor? Is it going to be a big struggle trying to continue my pain management meds?
This happened to me before. Keep in mind that in all states but one, mosurri, ALL controlled substances are recorded and a doctor can look this up ANY time he feels like it. It is best to assume that all doctors check this listing everytime they write a script. with that knowledge in mind, you should never, ever attempt to get "over writing" done, that is one controlled substance on top of another one unless you have ACUTE pain. for chronic pain, you are simply stuck. that being said, if you "lost" your pain script, that is considered your fault. You should treat these meds like cash money and not be cavalier with how you store them.
I will give you advice to rectify your situation, but if you intend to use it for illicit means, you'll only screw yourself over. doctors will catch on. that being said we all make mistakes.
So this is essentially what you can do to salvage your situation. restart by taking your diagnosis papers such as MRI and CT scans, and if you live near state lines, head over state lines because as far as I know, they do not share this information across state lines, it is soley a statewide thing. maybe in the tri state area in liberal north east new york new jersey area they do, but most places in the USA they do not. this means you can go across state lines and bring your medical records.
if i remember correctly, the procedure is as follows. first you need a referral from a GP, and then you go to a pain management doc. getting a referral is easy, since you just go to a new GP and ask for it after showing diagnostic criteria and then your meds. dont expect them to script anything off the bat, but you may get lucky and the doc may script you once to tide you over. it depends.
if any doctor requests that you sign a release of records - do NOT do it. this will show them why you were dismissed. simply find a new doctor that takes the records you hand them. from your own records you can omit various "red flags" that indicate a problem patient. it is rare they ask why you stopped seeing a doctor before, but you could just say "my GP told me that he did not want to script for chronic pain as he felt i needed a specialist for it" which is a common thing that happens all the time and no one will question it. if they push for seeing documentation of this, find another doctor.
after you get a referral to a pain management doctor, just go there and show them empty boxes /containers of what you were taking and that is it. repeat question of why you stopped seeing GP as "because they felt i should go to a pain clinic." with already being referred, it should be no issue. stay calm, act polite and if refused, simply repeat process until you get new compliant doctor. never protest or make a scene, just respectfully say ok, leave, go back to GP who referred, and then start again.
it may be a hassle, but as long as you arent continuing to get subutex, you go out of state, and you act calm, it should not be an issue to get a new doc to script you what is needed. that being said if you are doc shopping or trying to score subutex and pain meds outside of the same state and get found out, it is a federal trafficking across state lines offense, which means that you are effectively going to be procesuted as a drug dealer in a federal case. ive seen it happen before, don't be stupid. be thankful you have one doctor who gives you anything at all. you could get nothing.
