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The last thing you want to do is ask up front - in today's climate, even with the medical community more aware of opiates as a viable therapy, simply asking for pain meds will likely get you tagged as a drug seeker, and it'll really hamper yourself in the long run if you've got real pain issues.
If you've got real problems, then start keeping a Pain Diary. PD's are commonly used by first-time chronic pain patients (and even short term acute pain patients) to document their pain over time, giving the doctor a visual record of your problem, especially if there's nothing evident on X-rays, MRI's, CT's, etc. Real pain and recording it is extremely difficult to fake - most doctors, and other pain patients like myself, can easily tell when someone is BS'ing about having pain bad enough to require pain meds.
You also need to show that you've tried alternate meds and therapies, which is something most patients are willing to do; they just want a quick remedy for pain. Problem is, real pain has no quick remedy.
Seeing a Pain Specialist is also preferable than a General Practitioner, since they're authorized to prescribe more pain meds than regular doctors are. Regular doctors and the groups they belong to tend to pull back from any long-term prescriptions involving pain meds that are Schedule II (Duragesic, Percocet, Morphine, etc.), and even Schedule III and IV drugs (Vicodin, Codeine mixes, etc.)
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∙ 13y agoI am a Doctor Who understands pain, because I suffer from it. That is why I am willing to treat you without judging you, or giving you the suspicious eye. I had to deal with that as a patient. I know how it feels! Come to my practice, I follow all DEA guidelines, everything is legit, but the difference is I have Fibromyalgia, and so I understand you.
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