Mary,

I have you in my thoughts, and hope you are sleeping peacefully.

As an CRPS I patient, it seems that with every new symptom, comes a new medication( for me, anyway), from the PM doc.

My PM doc doesn't like to script Xanex, and I have been taking it for over a year for anxiety and panic attacks. His solution was to put me on Baclofen, a muscle relaxant, and he thought the med would take care of both symptoms. It doesn't, and now my PCP is scripting the Xanex for me, as she did in the beginning.

PM doc said he doesn't mind that I take Xanex, he just doesn't script it, and has not scripted it for the last 6 years. I did not have anxiety/panic disorder BEFORE the RSD, and find it frustrating that I have to see MY PCP to get scripts for the anti-anxiety medication...and thus, have to pay a doc visit and thecost of meds,too. This injury/dx is a WC case.

Hang in there, Mary. Hope the OpanaER 30 mg works well for you. I am still at 20 MG x 2 daily OpanaER..with my other cocktail meds.

My prob. is getting the OpanaER script mailed out to the pharmacy, from the PM doc's office, on time. My atty. wrote a letter to the PM doc explaining that this has happened 3 times: 1 tramadol, and 2 OpanaER scripts. It is negligence on the PM doc's office, and it has to stop. A record is now made of the poor svc.of PM doc on mailing script to pharmacy on time.

We are at the mercy of the PM docs. However, we do have each other to lift each other up..I am here for you