Well sorry to report that the withdrawals are on! The doctor I saw yesterday would only give me 15 vicodin 500's. Also called me a drug addict, and said that I was just a drug seeker. Telling me I would be better off NOT on any of the big opoids. So no more ms contin for me, or ativan, that is addicting also.

It is a sorry world we live in when the doctors that have the tools to relieve pain believe they have to protect us from addiction.

This leads me to the question.

Does the doctor I was seeing, have a responsibility to make sure that I wont suffer withdrawls, or harm from the decision to terminate our relationship? Shouldnt that doctor have made sure I was off the drug, or help find another willing to continue the same treatments, or at least give me time to find another doctor willing to continue the same kind of pain treatments?

Instead of just giving me notice, and just dropping me. Leaving me to suffer the withdrawals, and basically I feel jeopordizing my well being. The sweats and pain is almost unbearable, and I feel like im about to pass out from all the weird feelings overcoming my poor body. After 2 years of treatment with ms contin, then just stopping. Seems to me that is dangerous to say the least, and quite possibly illegal.

Hurting unit