Should I Ask My Doctor for My Hydrocodne Back for My Back?
Question by ghost: Should I ask my doctor for my hydrocodne back for my back?
I was in group home for a month and a half. I was given two 5/325 hydrocodones a day for my back problems. I have scoliosis. The group home CMA’s had a huge problem giving me my hydrocodone as a PRN. I had to ask for them, and each time I asked for them they would give me the 3rd degree like I was some kind of drug addict. I also had fioricet two times a day for migraines. I asked for a fioricet when I had a really bad migraine, and the CMA said no. I asked if I should call 911, and she said she was going to fax my doctor to tell him I was asking for to many narcotics. I left the place after writing her up to the head of the group home. When I went to my general practitioner, his nurse said for me not to expect to get my hydrocodone filled, because they had a call that I was abusing them.
I’m taking 200 mg. of ultram daily, and 30 mg of flexeril muscle relaxers. I still have pain in my back, and the two hydrocodne really did help. I told my doctor last month that I would just take my ultram and muscle relaxer, I didn’t give him a chance to say yes or no to giving me the hydrocodone.
Should I tell my doctor that I need my hydrocodone? I wake up with a lot of pain in the mornings. Ultram and flexeril do help, but I don’t think they are enough. If I ask him for my hydrocodone back, how should I explain the group home calling to say I was abusing narcotics? I think it’s impossible to abuse 5/325 hydrocodone 2 times a day.
What do you think? Was I “abusing” my narcotics? Do I deserve to live without pain? My uncle takes percocet 10, four times a day for his back problems, and I was only taking two hydrocone a day. I’m 31 years old, so I’m no spring chicken anymore, but I’m not old, and don’t feel I need precocets, or oxicotin, but I’m really in pain.
I alerted all the proper authorities to my situation with the group home, and I lost my DMH funding because they thought I was a pill seeker, so now I can’t go into any group home (not that I would want too).
What is your view on this? The ultram helps some, but I’m still in pain.
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