Hi I was wondering if anyone else is having problems getting any kind of opiate medication since the country has went crazy about any drs. prescribing it? I have not been able to get any in over a year. I was dx'd in Aug of 2004 with atypical tn and I had a mvd surgery in Dec. of 2006. The surgery failed and it was recommended to me to start on an opiate. I am allergic to almost every opiate out there except Fentynal patches. I had the same primary dr. for several yrs and he knew I was in law enforcement and that I was neither an addict or a drug seeker. I had been on Neuronton, Bacoflen, Klonopin and the patch thru him until Sept. last yr. I was dropped as a patient by his office when he re-located which left me scrambling for a new dr. I seen two gp's and was told by both they didn't prescribe opiates or benzos and was referred to pain management whom I had seen in 2006. I never went thru opiate withdrawel (don't ask me why) but I went thru a terrible long withdrawel from the klonipin and even tho it worked like a miracle I vowed never to go back on a benzo and be put in that position where I had to go cold turkey because everyone refused to prescribe it. The pain management dr. said he didn't prescribe opiates which was strange to me but that he would send a referral to the gp to prescribe it who had already told me she wouldn't. Now I seen her in Feb. and she admitted she thought I was a drug seeker during my initial visit with her! Can you imagine how that made me feel? The lowest of low I can tell you. She of course never received the referral from the pain dr. and after numerous calls to her office and his she finally sent me a letter requesting my medical records from the previous dr. because the pain dr. had told her he thought I was dropped as a patient because of medication non-compliance! ie; a drug seeker!!! I had already filled out a medical record release for her last year but the staff conveniently lost it. Filled out another and have been trying desperately to get ahold of first dr. to call them and clear up this mess! Needless to say I have been housebound the majority of time because the Neurontin and Bacoflen isn't cutting the pain and have just been trying to stay as quiet as possible to get thru the pain but as you know that doesn't always work and these thunderstorms we have been having are killing me. Sooo does anyone have any ideas what I can do? Oh and almost all the doctors in my town are not accepting new patients at all and those that do have their receptionists screen the calls and when they find out I have a chronic condition they outright refuse. I've had 4 refuse me just for that. Our Er or urgent care will not prescribe pain meds hardly and when they do it's vicodin or percocet and they make me violently ill. I have never drug shopped in my life, I do not take any illegal drugs, I don't even smoke or drink but I am being vilified as a drug addict and my pain is being dismissed because of addicts here who have bought opiates on the street and over dosed. Why should I be punished for their illegal activity? Sorry so long but I needed to vent a little I guess.