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Hi all. I have been lurking the forums for maybe two months. In 2006 I was on a bicycle and got hit by a car. Long story, longer recovery. Result was a deep brain bleed leading to serious chronic pain. Since the year of the accident I have moved from Percocet to Vicodin and finally to roxi. I have nerve pain and pain the docs call neuropathy that keeps me unable to walk at times.

Here is the problem. Three months ago my doctor told me and all his patients that he could not prescribe roxi anymore.

He replaced it with morphine sulphate. Quite frankly, the 10 mg Roxie three times a day really kept the pain, which is devastating at times, under control.

Do you think it was just my doctor got busted? I live in Saint Petersburg. How the heck can he write me scripts for morphine (or another one I heard mentioned here in a thread about alternative to roxi) but not for freaken roxi? Te roxi did add some relief from the fact that I cannot walk anymore. Was that to be identified as euphoria? The morphine makes me dope. The roxi generic never did.

But thanks for having this forum. A here our legislatures say "we understand tht some people need them!!!" but it sure doesn't seem to be the reality. How did my doctor lose the ability to write one script and not another?

And how do I interview or find another doctor without sounding like I am trying to get high? I am trying to stay alive and live comfortably. For three months I have not been allowed to do that. Changing doctors is scary. I hate to do it because of the meds.
 
I think with the huge crackdown over the last 6 months to a year in our area, Pinellas County, has scared a lot of doctors who were providing legit care to pain patients, has caused them to cut prescriptions for roxis/oxys just because. Im sure if you search around there are a few clinics around here that will be more than glad to help you. If your in pain, dont worry about what the doctor thinks of you, the stigma of being a pain patient shouldn't worry you.
 
Thanks much for your responses. Clearly you understand the issue. I have been a successful and I hope nice man all my life. I am about sixty, and when I was fifty entered AA. I spent two years in the rooms until I somehow spiritually outgrew it. The near-death of the accident had a lot to do with that (19 days in a coma, 20 more days in IR, blah blah) had a lot to do with not going to the rooms anymore. I was a successful addict. A cocaine addict but I stated drinking whiskey when I was 12, so substance abuse has certainly been part of my life. My entering "recovery" had far more to do with self-examination and internal growth than it did with problems I was having because of my drug use. For a long time I figured that cocaine was just part of some people's lives.

So now, not drinking but maybe a brandy once a month (if that), and getting chills down my spine thinking about what it felt like to smoke rock, having pain meds in my life is somehow reaching a part of my personae that isn't as confident as the guy on the outside.

Know what I mean? These responses are coming from people who have obviously providing support to many levels of users for a long time. I cannot tell you how much they are appreciated. I will take your advice. The morphine works. It seems, though, that the loss of the euphoric side effect of the roxi is there for a reason. It is that that I have a hard time dealing with. I shouldn't need it. But the pain is like having an animal or insect on me. One that hurts. I don't feel it's weight when under the influence of the morphine. But I know it is there. The roxi somehow softens it's being there in the first place.

And this pain is not going to go away.
 
I definitely understand physical/emotional pain. I had to have 3 back surgeries in a 2 week period of time and now I am told by my psychologist that I am depressed and maybe bipolar. Your not alone at all. You should head over the Dark Side. You will get alot of support there! There is a link for it in my signature below :)

Or if you dont to do that but want someone to talk to, I am an open ear. Just shoot me a PM which there is a link for that too in my signature.

Feel better!
 
Oh wow, so you have had a near death experience?

You should TOTALLY talk to Skillz. She had a car accident and almost died... I am SO GLAD she is still alive because she's the MOST awesome female moderator of NMI. The ONLY female moderator NMI (seeing as Xburtonchic was stepping down).

:)

I have had a near death experience as well but Skillz is the girl you want to talk to. I don't want to talk about mine right now LOL.
 
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