Even if you have a good dr writing for you the DEA can decide he's writing to many narcotics (because apparently a pain dr shouldn't prescribe painkillers) and pull his liscence. Happened to me. I went from 4 OC80s and 3 8mg Dilaudids a day to nothing and finding a new doc was a bitch. And that's the story of how I ended up on Subutex!
Damn that sucks. I got mine from a doctor at the University of WA, and he was a tight ass for many months before offering them. I got a tumor pushing on shit in my head and it's absolute hell every waking moment. The narcs don't really help much, I have lots of nerve meds and shit but all of them combined don't do much.
hmm just a quick Q how long did u take that dose?? im sure this was oral too right? 4 mg bupe is pretty low for something like that. I agree tho that too much bupe is kind of a weird feeling. so maybe you have a good point. plus being poor and not affording the meds can make you want to lower your dose.
it is a huge problem that people suffer w/o insurance, where im from its a freakin epidemic. Its nearly impossible to get help in a timely manner. When GM collapsed so did we. Medical bills are outrageous, i have a hospital visit that cost me around $1700 for practically nothing. I thought my leg had a blood clot or something, the pain was crazy. I was told its sciatica w/o any tests or anything, given a naproxen script and sent right along. the DHS case workers will tell women here that u need to go get knocked up to get any assistance w/ health care (or just about anything for that matter). what a joke.
Pain clinics will certainly give you them if u have insurance, some have certain rules like no other scripts tho. i just suggest not letting them string you on with a high dose.
Dude, I have white collar level health insurance and I've been so fucked over. I'm 28, got a extremely rare tumor, took 10 fucking months to get a diagnosis as it just progressed worse and worse. I look normal, have all my limbs, and none of the doctors would fucking believe me for 7 months until I got an MRI image showing the problem. It didn't show up in any tests they did, blood or spinal fluid (talk about hell, get a lumbar puncture).
Bill to insurance for 1x MRI was $10,203, insurance paid $1700 and the hospital bills me for $300. Sound great until you have 20+ doctor visits over several months where you have to pay $40 just to see the neurologist. At the same time your income dries up from the physical problem fucking you over, don't qualify for any assistance because I was doing well financially, had to open a tab at the hospital to make payments towards even though I'm unemployed. Then you get dozens of small bills for all the tests done after the insurance pays what they're going to pay. Then regular MRI's to check it's size to see if it's shrinking/growing as they just randomly try different treatments.
It doesn't matter if you have $10k, $50k, or $100k in the bank and health insurance, if you get on some radiation, chemo, brain surgery or any long term treatments that require frequent imaging it's just a matter of how long until it's sucked away...
If you or a family member ever get shit like this, cash out everything you have and hide it, it can't be in your bank account, then apply for assistance. Because I own a house I don't qualify for the hospital charity, if I default on the house, they'll write off my medical bills. So fucked.
I would have already killed myself (re-roll life) if I didn't have insurance, as with "good" insurance I have to get the MRI's "pre authorized" by my insurance which takes a week. Otherwise I doubt you'd get the same MRI I got (hour long) without insurance or having several thousand bucks deposit to put down. Without the MRI nobody would believe me and I was ready to die, symptoms don't fit into their normal box, nothing shows up on fluid tests, can't emphasize enough how much it hurts to have something stretching all the nerves/muscles behind your face every second of your life, while doctors are trying to refer you to a psychologist saying you're imagining the pain. I was ready to stab my doctor, ask him to describe his pain on a scale of 1-10, and then off myself.
I'd go again if someone local referred me to someone she knows could help, but I think I'll be back to needing thousands for a test (without insurance) to confirm with bloodwork ruled out through process of elimination and 2 doctors agreed with. ((SIGH))
