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Opal40, There is a web MD community for fibromyalgia. Many of them have myofascial pain...
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Opal40,
There is a web MD community for fibromyalgia. Many of them have myofascial pain syndrome that is part of fibro.
Maybe you'd find more answers on that group.
The know alot about myofascial pain syndrome.
Just click on it-
WebMD Fibromyalgia Community
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There is a web MD community for fibromyalgia. Many of them have myofascial pain syndrome that is part of fibro.
Maybe you'd find more answers on that group.
The know alot about myofascial pain syndrome.
Just click on it-
WebMD Fibromyalgia Community
I am Irene.View Thread
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Reply: Another View
I doubt that the urine test done on the welfare recipients was the five hundred dollar...
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I doubt that the urine test done on the welfare recipients was the five hundred dollar one.
The children didn't get their benefits cut if the parent got caught with drugs.View Thread
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Reply: The Cost
I've had a few urine tests with pain management doctor. My insurance paid for them. The...
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I've had a few urine tests with pain management doctor.
My insurance paid for them. The price was about $110 dollar.
There is a lab tec that works for the pain doctor. She may be from a lab, but it's one person. I don't know if she is paid from the doctors office or from the lab.
So they make you have the urine test every month and it cost $500? That's a lot of money and a lot of urine tests.
Have you talked about it with your doctor?
Does your insurance pay for like one a year and the rest they won't?
What is the kind of pain that you go to pain management? Just wondering.View Thread
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My insurance paid for them. The price was about $110 dollar.
There is a lab tec that works for the pain doctor. She may be from a lab, but it's one person. I don't know if she is paid from the doctors office or from the lab.
So they make you have the urine test every month and it cost $500? That's a lot of money and a lot of urine tests.
Have you talked about it with your doctor?
Does your insurance pay for like one a year and the rest they won't?
What is the kind of pain that you go to pain management? Just wondering.View Thread
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Reply: I started a petition re DEA, pain meds, and us,
Where I live, APRNs and PAs can't write our prescriptons for narcotics. I don't know if...
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Where I live, APRNs and PAs can't write our prescriptons for narcotics. I don't know if this is a new thing but for the past two years that I have been to pain management, the MD always has has to write my prescriptions.
I am in my 20s and dress kind of goth. My hair is long and if anyone was judged by how she looks I would probably be judged looking suspicious. I'm thin, too. I never abused my meds.
I see my MD every 2 months or so and I pick up my prescription once a month. I don't mind. It's worth it for me to get some pain control.
I have had two or three random urine tests which were fine.
Like peskypain says, it's not that we deserve or they have to prescribe anything. Our MDs are responsible fr what they treat us with.
I agree that if we are prescribed meds that have government control, thatthe government does have a say in monitoring them. It's not to judge us but to protect us.
If the ones who abuse them get caught, the ones who really need them for pain will get better treatment.
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I am in my 20s and dress kind of goth. My hair is long and if anyone was judged by how she looks I would probably be judged looking suspicious. I'm thin, too. I never abused my meds.
I see my MD every 2 months or so and I pick up my prescription once a month. I don't mind. It's worth it for me to get some pain control.
I have had two or three random urine tests which were fine.
Like peskypain says, it's not that we deserve or they have to prescribe anything. Our MDs are responsible fr what they treat us with.
I agree that if we are prescribed meds that have government control, thatthe government does have a say in monitoring them. It's not to judge us but to protect us.
If the ones who abuse them get caught, the ones who really need them for pain will get better treatment.
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New here. Came for Spinal Cord Stimulator info.
Someone who comes here suggested this site for me. She's here so she can see that I took...
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Someone who comes here suggested this site for me.
She's here so she can see that I took her advice LOL
I have been taking methadone for pain for almost a year and was using the fentenyl patch before then.
The patch really made my skin under the patch so red and itchy. Then I used cortisone cream under the patch and it didn't stick as well and fell off.
After I lost one my doctor offered Methadone which is okay.
Now my doc has talked to me about a spinal cord stimulator.
I know one person who has this and she loves it.
My doctor also gave me pamphlets from the company.
This info makes it sound like a miracle.
I hope that others who have one and like it and those who don't like it will tell me a little about what it's like.
How much does it help the pain?
Is the surgery to have the trial and the real surgery really painful?
Is it possible to get off your pain meds?
All I have heard so far is positive things which is great, but I'd like to know the whole story before I eve try the trial.
My pain is in my back and one leg.
I had back surgery and still have pain. Lumbar discectomy and laminectomy was in 2010.
Also, we do not have children yet and asked my doctor is I could use the spinal cord stim. through pregnancy.
She said that it should be okay, but no research is done on pregnant women and that she hasn't had a patient go through a pregnancy with on. There's not many shopping days left till Christmas if you know what I mean-
I know that I don't want to take Methadone while pregnant, so if this works it could help me get through a pregnancy while living with chronic pain.
I am not pregnant now.
My surgery and pain meds have had to put it off, but I'm not getting any younger.
I know that I am asking alot, but my mind is spinning with all this going on.
Thanks so much.
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She's here so she can see that I took her advice LOL
I have been taking methadone for pain for almost a year and was using the fentenyl patch before then.
The patch really made my skin under the patch so red and itchy. Then I used cortisone cream under the patch and it didn't stick as well and fell off.
After I lost one my doctor offered Methadone which is okay.
Now my doc has talked to me about a spinal cord stimulator.
I know one person who has this and she loves it.
My doctor also gave me pamphlets from the company.
This info makes it sound like a miracle.
I hope that others who have one and like it and those who don't like it will tell me a little about what it's like.
How much does it help the pain?
Is the surgery to have the trial and the real surgery really painful?
Is it possible to get off your pain meds?
All I have heard so far is positive things which is great, but I'd like to know the whole story before I eve try the trial.
My pain is in my back and one leg.
I had back surgery and still have pain. Lumbar discectomy and laminectomy was in 2010.
Also, we do not have children yet and asked my doctor is I could use the spinal cord stim. through pregnancy.
She said that it should be okay, but no research is done on pregnant women and that she hasn't had a patient go through a pregnancy with on. There's not many shopping days left till Christmas if you know what I mean-

I know that I don't want to take Methadone while pregnant, so if this works it could help me get through a pregnancy while living with chronic pain.
I am not pregnant now.
My surgery and pain meds have had to put it off, but I'm not getting any younger.
I know that I am asking alot, but my mind is spinning with all this going on.
Thanks so much.
ReenaView Thread
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