I am the husband of a beautiful woman who not only suffers from Fibromyalgia but was in a 100 MPH head on collision in 2003 which exacerbated her chronic pain condition to the max.
It took me four years and two doctors, after the accident, to get her where she was moderately free from pain. Because what really worked for her was narcotic pain medications, I had two doctors prescribing MS Contin and Hydrocodone. They say this is wrong, but I cannot find any where in any law or regulation that this is illegal in anyway.
The problem was neither one was willing to give her what was needed. So I used them both. The total medications were: 160 MG MS Contin Twice a day and Eight (8) Hydrocodone 7.5/500 MG and 3-10 mg Diazepam. (I know that the 4000 MG of Aceteminephine is at the very max. someone should take daily.
This is what worked for her and she was very close to being totally pain free.
What happened was this one doctor decided to check the Az state website that monitors narcotic prescriptions. He decided that because my wife was getting prescriptions from another doctor she was abusing narcotics. He immedialtely stopped prescribing the Rx's. Which wouldn't have been all that bad but he faxed the information to her other doctor who also immediately cancelled all her presciptions. This doctor nor the other doctor ever talked to me or my wife. They had their office managers tell us what they were doing. The first doctor also faxed this information to every pharmacy in our area.
The web site the state has is to monitor the use of narcotic prescriptions and is to be used for the patients care and evaluation, not to label them abusers as this doctor has done. As you can see the amount of the medications she received was about what one doctor would normally prescribe for her condition. I have read what other patients have been prescribed and my wifes is no more or less that what they are prescribed. We were originally under the assumption that the other doctor knew what the first doctor was prescribing. That was why she gave us the exact same prescription that we were getting from the first doctor. If not, what was the point?
I have filed a complaint with the D.O. board in Arizona for the misuse of the information the CSPMP site makes available. The manager of the site told me that the way he used the information is a class 6 felony. I am also filing a civil complaint against him for the invasion of privacy, slander and libel. I would like some input about what is considered abuse. Is there a limit to a prescription that a doctor can prescribe? Am I wrong in filing the complaint and the civil action and will I win or lose? Anyone with the same problem please let me know. My e-mail is
Jgundelach@msn.com .