Andrew Ostrowski
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...need pain meds will i be on a list? OK. THIS MAY BE KINDA LONG SO I was addicted to opiates for around 2 years. My psychiatrist started on Tramadol for chronic pain. I took the trams for about 10 months at which point i got scripts for Hydrocodone and codeine from another doc. At that point I was taking 10mg hydro or 60mg codeine along with 200-300mg of tramadol. I moved to a different psychiatrist. He gave me 30mg morphine daily along with 200mg tramadol for a month. I started seeing a Rheumatologist who started me on 20mg Oxy per day. I figured out that if i told the doctor that my insurance woudn't pay for the OxyContin or something along those lines then she would give me a script for 15mg Oxycodone IR (which is like percocet) that i took along with the OxyContin. I continued abusing the doctors trust to get her to give me around 120 Oxy per month. I then told my rheumatologist that i wanted to wean off (she didnt know of my recreational use) to see if my pain had improved. She started me on 20mg methadone which i took for a couple weeks along with 25mcg Fentanyl patches she had prescribed me. This is when things got crazy. I had gone up to 150mg of oxy per day WITH a fentanyl patch on. I went through my monthly Oxy within 2 weeks so I went to see my old psychiatrist to get more. He started me on 10mg Oxymorphone which is roughly equal to 80mg of morphine per pill. In the last two weeks before rehab i took 90 of the 15mg oxy from the rheumatologist, Five 25mcg Fentanyl patches, 60 of the 10mg Oxymorphone from the psych, and 300 percocet from a walk-in doc. all together 450 pills equal to 2850mg of Oxycodone, 9mg of Fentanyl, and 600mg of Oxymorphone.
NOW, you can see how bad it looks when the doctors found this on some kind of state pharmacy records list and they refused to ever see me again, leaving me cold turkey. My question is I'VE BEEN OFF OPIATES SINCE NOVEMBER OF 09 AND HAVE HAD NO CRAVINGS WHATSOEVER SINCE JANUARY, BUT RECENTLY GOT INJURED WHILE PRACTICING MARTIAL ARTS AND REALLY THINK I'LL NEED PAIN KILLERS. i'VE ALREADY TRIED HERBAL PAIN RELIEF, OTC PAIN MEDS (TYLENOL, ADVIL, ALEVE,ETC..) PRESCRIPTION IBUPROFEN, AND OTHER ALTERNATIVES SUCH AS MEDITATION. BUT I THINK I MAY NEED TO TAKE OPIATES FOR A FEW DAYS. NOT REAL STRONG STUFF JUST MAYBE 5 OR 10 VICODIN OR SOMETHING. THIS DOCTOR IS COMPLETELY NEW AND DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY PAST. DO YOU THINK HE'LL CHECK ON ONE OF THOSE LISTS BEFORE PRESCRIBING? OR AM I EVEN ON THE LIST NOW? DO YOU THINK I SHOULD EVEN TRY CONSIDERING THE LONG LIST OF ABUSE IN THE STORY I SHOWED YOU GUYS?
NOW, you can see how bad it looks when the doctors found this on some kind of state pharmacy records list and they refused to ever see me again, leaving me cold turkey. My question is I'VE BEEN OFF OPIATES SINCE NOVEMBER OF 09 AND HAVE HAD NO CRAVINGS WHATSOEVER SINCE JANUARY, BUT RECENTLY GOT INJURED WHILE PRACTICING MARTIAL ARTS AND REALLY THINK I'LL NEED PAIN KILLERS. i'VE ALREADY TRIED HERBAL PAIN RELIEF, OTC PAIN MEDS (TYLENOL, ADVIL, ALEVE,ETC..) PRESCRIPTION IBUPROFEN, AND OTHER ALTERNATIVES SUCH AS MEDITATION. BUT I THINK I MAY NEED TO TAKE OPIATES FOR A FEW DAYS. NOT REAL STRONG STUFF JUST MAYBE 5 OR 10 VICODIN OR SOMETHING. THIS DOCTOR IS COMPLETELY NEW AND DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY PAST. DO YOU THINK HE'LL CHECK ON ONE OF THOSE LISTS BEFORE PRESCRIBING? OR AM I EVEN ON THE LIST NOW? DO YOU THINK I SHOULD EVEN TRY CONSIDERING THE LONG LIST OF ABUSE IN THE STORY I SHOWED YOU GUYS?