Is it appropriate to ask for higher dose of pain meds?

im trying to get into a new pain management center. the only problem is i have to wait about 2 months for an appointment to get in there. im wondering if the place i go to now will still see me until i get to that appointment. i know my family dr (pcp) will not help until then. he refuses to see me for my anxiety or back pain anymore. here's the story behind that: i went to my pcp for sleep problems. a student (intern) was taking all of his cases that day. she did great with my sleeping disorder. as i was about to leave she handed me my script for my lorcets. i told her i was suppose to come back for them in a couple of weeks. she told me to hold onto the script. i asked if i needed to come back for my appointment since i already had the script. she said "well, i'll just hold onto it then till you come back". i never took my script home with me. my fiance was there and can verify that.

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i went back a couple weeks later for my script and my pcp said that i already got it at my last visit. i told him the student had kept it. he said "here's what im gonna do, im gonna write you one last script and refer you to pain manangement." i guess he didnt believe me at all. his fake red flags must have been flying. i took medical assisting classes and i know documentation is everything. its on the books that she gave me that script. she never went back and said i didnt get it... or put it in my file. that student really screwed me over. im pissed and horrified that they think im a liar. as for the student... she is gone. nobody has seen or heard from her. now im in this downward spiral of bad PM and bad scripts that dont help. im going back on the 8th to give it another shot. im gonna tell him that im still in pain. if he refuses to give me something stronger, im out! i WILL find someone that treats me as a person with pain instead of a junkie looking for a fix. i honestly hope everyone here has found someone (dr) that understands them and their pain. everyone is unique. we all need different types of meds and special care. im praying that i find that special care somewhere!

Hi Annomyous,

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I too have chronic pain from neuropathy. I was on pain meds. Norco 10 which helped when I had muscle pain from the leg cramping, especially at night. Nerve pain, I honestly believe there is no medication that takes it away. I was sent to a pain mgt. clinic. They started me on MSContin 2x day and 3xnorco breakthrough. I told the dr I didn't want to take something every day because some days ibuprofen was enough, other days pain so bad norco helped, but not with nerve pain. Anyway, I ended up on high doses os narcotics because they told me I had to take them in the am "to keep pain from getting ahead" now I have no insurance, had to go on suboxone to get off and before I screwed up with the sub. Felt better th an I have in years off pain meds. 600mg ibuprofen works about as good as the norcos. I think I was making myself believe I needed more because my body was craving it. I was waking in the night only to have to take pain meds. I learned how to do deep breathing and yoga. The breathing is the only thing that comes close to taking nerve pain away. I wish everyone could learn the technique . It takes a lot of practice and nerve pain is hard to ignore to be able to do it. I wish you the best. I know how hard chronic pain can be but for me, higher doses of narcotics made it worse. I can't wait to be off of all, at this point the pain is more tolerable then craving pain pills! Good luck!