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How do you find a doctor that won't pre-judge a recovering addict as someone who is just looking for pills?

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Asked By: Grendel2001 51-55, M  6 months ago

She has constant, chronic pain, and wants help with pain management. She has never asked for narcotics, and doesn't want them. She is my hero in continually overcoming her addiction to pain pills. But she is continually typecast by doctors as someone who is just looking for pills, and they don't even want to talk with her. Not all of her doctors, but two in the past month have refused to treat her without even an exam or talking about her problems. How can we find a doctor and "prescreen" them for being accepting and understanding of someone's past, and not blackball them for past actions?

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    littleonejade - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by littleonejade 1 Nov 21st, 2012 at 11:28AM

    ask around, and find a pain management Dr.

    My chronic pain was helped by Muscle relaxers, Night and day difference
    didn't need anything else once the spazam stopped.
    what kind of pain

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  1. Grendel2001 - 51-55 years old - male

    Reply by Grendel2001 Nov 21st, 2012 at 12:32PM

    We've been to pain management doctors. But so many typecast her as just looking for pills instead of trying to actually help her. If she had the exact same symptoms but was not a recovering addict, they would treat her completely different. Instead, she gets brushed aside, they think she's faking. She has fibromyalgia, three bulging disks, sciatica, bursitis in the hip, and is recovering from knee surgery.

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  2. littleonejade - 46-50 years old - female

    Reply by littleonejade Nov 26th, 2012 at 7:42AM

    OMG AND OUCH. i too have issue in my disk, buldging, disappearing and fibro. the MUSCLE relaxer made a HUGH different. i didn't need the nar after taking them good luck, it is so hard now a days with so many addicted to pills. my fears is getting addicted. i am looking into essencial oils

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