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Old Dec 13, 2007, 02:10 PM
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i have been seeeing a doctor an he has had me on oxycottin,40mil.,for about 1and a half years,and now has cut me off cold turkey because a nerve pill he had me take,as needed,was not in my urine,now he refuses to see me an it takes time to set up another docter.3 other docters said he cant,by law ,cut me off like that because he knows of my heart condition.is there anything that can be done,i have already wrote to the medical board,please help ,ohio, PHONE NUMBER REMOVED FOR PRIVACY

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Old Dec 13, 2007, 02:19 PM   #2  
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Do you mean Oxycontin? Why would you take it for a heart condition?

Is it possible that you have gotten addicted?
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I agree with J on this - if you have a heart condition, why would you be taking something like Oxycontin? It is to be a pain reliever, not a heart medicine. Maybe you built up a tolerance to the drug and your doctor felt it was not safe for you anymore. Maybe you became addicted. Did your doctor gradually decrease your dosage so that you would not feel sick from withdrawal symptoms?
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Yes of course he can cut you off, if he belives first you don't really need it, and next if he could actually be bad for you if mixed with other drugs. With a heart condition normally you should not be taking a stronger pain medication for that long of time. Your doctor most likely beleives you have become adicted and had no other choice.

And what did you do or say to him to make him stop seeing you? And not sure why it take time to get a new doctor, you call up one accepting patients and go in.

Sounds like you are just unhappy you are not getting pain medication any longer. most likely in a few weeks it will be better
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Why would you be taking oxycontin for a "heart condition"? And for 1 1/2 years straight, no less. Oxycontin is taken for temporary acute pain management, not as a long-term treatment for heart disease. I don't know of any law that prevents him from cutting you off abruptly. He no doubt fears that you've become addicted to it. It's a wonder that he allowed you to stay on it for so long to get to this point. You may need some short-term detoxification treatment and you'll need to find an alternative treatment for your heart condition.
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the med. was given to me for chornic back legs and arm pain not my heart
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What exactly was the reason he gave you for dropping you as a patient? It just seems to be that there is more to this, it doesnt make sense.
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i was on three kinds of meds. and my zanex didnt show in my urine was the reason he gave me . but he told me himself that i didnt have to take then if i didnt need then .so i didnt take then every day only when i needed then. im not the only one he did these to .it was said that he was being investigate by the dea. so im not sure what was going on
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i have been seeeing a doctor an he has had me on oxycottin,40mil.,for about 1and a half years,and now has cut me off cold turkey because a nerve pill he had me take,as needed,was not in my urine,now he refuses to see me an it takes time to set up another docter.3 other docters said he cant,by law ,cut me off like that because he knows of my heart condition.is there anything that can be done,i have already wrote to the medical board,please help ,ohio, PHONE NUMBER REMOVED FOR PRIVACY

I'm confused about the Oxycodone and the "cold turkey" part - I take it for back pain on occasion in much lower dosages and I can (and have) stopped when I didn't need it. Did you become addicted? I'm sure you know - and I don't know how often you take it - that 40mg is a very high dosage - the most common prescriptions are 7.5 and 10. (My husband was a Pharmacist.)

Also don't understand why you had a urine drug test and why not taking a nerve pill would cause him to refuse to continue to treat you.

And, yes, to the best of my knowledge if he believes you are not following his advice (such as not taking medication or exceeding his instructions) or doing anything illegal (such as selling the drugs he prescribes for you or attempting to forge prescriptions) he can refuse to see you and tell you to go to the Emergency Room for care.

This one Doctor treated you for pain (thus the Oxycodone), a nerve condition and a heart condition without any specialists being involved?

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J_9 agrees: Oxycodone or Oxycontin? They are two totally different meds.
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If he was being investigated by the DEA, then he HAD to stop writingn for you as he was probably in big doo doo for writing too many narcotics. AND you have been taking this medicine WAY, way too long and in very high doses at that. This medicine is not to be used more than a few weeks at most.

Having pain is no fun but you should not take this medicine if you have a heart condition as this can make your condition worse. The Xanax is okay to take for the nerve condition as it dulls the pain of the nerves. But not to be taken for as long as you have been taking it.

I'll bet you were one happy chick high on the oxy and not caring due to the Xanax flying around on the ceiling. He sounds like a borderline quack to me who was caught writing too many narcotics.

Get yourself another doctor pronto.
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