I am a newbie. I had an L5-S1 fusion that did not go well back in June. I am having a tremendous amount of pain from it. The pain medication, oxycontin 20mg and Percocet5 helped but only for 30 minutes. The doctor will not prescribe me anymore. I don't have time to switch to another doctor, however, if I could get another batch of Percocet 10's that would be wonderful. But I am not sure how to go about it.

I am hearing from others about these pharmacies that will sell you them but they require a resident doctor. Can someone help me with that?

Please help. I have to quit going to the ER.

Thank you.

Ever been to Florida? They are littered with pain clinics with docs that will be more than willing to help you with pain management. They do require a copy of your MRI and you will probably be set. Florida does not currently have a dispense monitoring system so these clinicians are more liberal with writing pain scripts...

Speaking of oxycontin do you or anyone know of any methods for determining the legitimacy (is that a word?) of a product received? a friend of mine obtained some oc 80s but i have seen many posts about fake variants of oc floating around some looking completely identical but containing fentanyl instead of oxycodone as the active ingredient. thoughts advice experiences anyone?

I have been to Florida and I hear about all of them pain clinics. Unfortunately, I am here in Ohio. The doctors I am working with here are very strict.

Do you know of a doctor in Florida I could get a hold of?

i mean i have talked via e-mail for medical advice and asked basic questions about medications and such but it is usually pretty clear that you have to have an actual physical exam, or physically meet with the physician. they arent just going to take your word for it or believe something you mail/fax is yours and send u meds, unless they are are core rebels desperate for money....

you can check out the BI sites and info but use at your own risk***

I am actually going to try acupuncture and the ancient Chinese medicine in two days, ill let u know how that goes..

Keep us updated on the acupuncture. I hate needles, but I am curious to see if something like that could be really useful.

Acupuncture helps me tremendously. Good luck!

I've never had it done before. Is it terribly painful? I don't understand how it works.

It didn't hurt me at all. I had about 15 sessions. The needles are very small.

It was very effective resolving a new head pain I was having. Not so much with my older aches and pains.

Thanks for the information. I hate needles, but I've heard so many good things I have to start looking into acupuncture.