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Subject: Percocet for migranes

Author:
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Date Posted: 06:26:40 08/11/11 Thu

I've posted here a few times before, but this post is specifically geared toward the situation in which I currently find myself.

My GP/PCP started prescribing Percocet 10/325 to me for migraines after we literally exhausted all conventional remedies (triptans, gapapentin, etc). This absolutely was a last resort. I was taking them every day from about December 2009 through mid-May 2010. I was taking 20/650 four times a day, every day. Actually, we started with the 5/325 and then increased it to 10/325 in February.

Finally I went to see a neurologist on May 14 because my GP was getting nervous about prescribing all of this Percocet.

Well, the first thing the neurologist does is get me off the Percocet. He prescribes a 4-week methadone tapering protocol starting at 5mg twice a day, eventually ending in half a tab once a day. Then he evaluates me and writes three other scripts (one NSAID, one anti-depressant, one muscle relaxer). In my wallet I have a script from my GP for 240 Percocet 10/325s. He said, "Don't fill that. You won't need it. The methadone is a painkiller so that will be adequate until these other medications can prevent the migraines."

What a load of &*&?!

One day off the Percocet, even on the methadone, was torture. I can't even explain it. My GP doubled my Xanax script to help with the withdrawals, so I am now taking the 1mg Xanax pills three times a day. So, a few days into this new migraine protocol, the "painkilling" effects of the methadone have become nonexistent and the other meds aren't doing anything except making my heart race, my stomach ache, and put me though a week of pure ???$*, including no sleep for about three days, and no appetite for about a week. Now, not only am I back to dealing with migraines, but I have to suffer the side effects of these TERRIBLE drugs. But I decide to give it time to work.

The script my GP wrote was postdated for May 20. At that point I decided I wanted to have it on hand so I got it filled. $10 for 240 Percocet? My mama didn't raise no fool! Of course I filled it. And, at the time, I was set against going back to it. I had the meds in my hand and said to myself, "I don't want to be dependent anymore. I am going to give this new treatment a try." I actually DID just put it in my pantry and said, "I will only use it if I get an unbearable migraine."

Well, the next day I woke up with a SCREAMING migraine that totally put me out of commission. It was either suffer or take the Percocet. So I did the latter.

This means I also stopped the methadone. But then I called my neurologist about this. He wasn't there. I left a message. No callback. So I called his emergency line. No callback. Then I called his cell. No callback. This went on for two weeks. He has yet to return even ONE of my calls... still! I have no idea what's going on. I have tried everything to get in touch with him, short of knocking on his door. I even called the department head at the hospital and left a message. His nurse never tells me where he is or why he's not returning any of my calls. Isn't this borderline malpractice?! He just left me hanging in pain.

So I called my GP and explained the situation. He said, "There's absolutely no reason for a doctor NOT to return your calls. That's irresponsible and negligent, and arguably cruel. Unless you're dead, you call your patients back that day." So he told me to find a new neurologist. So I did. But I can't get in until July 22! He said nothing about continued pain relief, though. I didn't mention filling the May 20 Percocet script. I just said the new treatment wasn't working and my migraines are still persisting.

I stopped taking the migraine treatment prescribed by the neurologist and went back to taking the Percocet the same as before. I have enough of the May 20 script for Percocet left to get me by until June 20. I don't qualify for another round of Percocet until June 20, but I don't know if my GP is going to like this. I am really torn here. Should I call him and explain what happened (that I started reusing the Percocet and risk that he either says No or drops me all together) or suffer through the withdrawals and migraines until July 22 when I see the new neurologist? What if the same thing happens again?? Why can't I just freakin' find a doctor who thinks it's okay to take this medication for this condition? When did it become so awful to give a patient something that actually works?! I swear, doctors are more concerned about the DEA than of relieving their patients' pain.

And, please, bear in mind that my migraines are insufferable. Sometimes I get aura and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I get nauseated and sometimes I don't. I wake up with them, I go about my day with them, I go to sleep with them, and Percocet is the only thing that has given me my life back. I am extremely grateful for that. But I feel like the rug is going to be pulled out from under me any minute now, and I will be left to suffer every day. I don't know if I can face my GP, go to him with my hand out, asking for more pain medication. I think he's already uneasy about prescribing that much C-II medication for migraines, but I swear, I'd rather have a migraine than suffer the effects of triptans, gabapentin, or ANY of the medications prescribed to me by that last neurologist. I just can't deal with these migraines, or the side effects of the preventive treatment I was given, and I refuse to exchange one set of problems for another, so what happens when the next neurologist tries the same &*&?? Do I just suffer it and pray that it works, or do I insist that I need some kind of "back up" pain relief medication if the preventive treatment fails?

I guess my question is, what do I do now? Do I face my GP with the request for more Percocet and risk alienating him (or even making him feel threatened), or do I just suffer in silence? I am really torn. I can't bear these migraines, but I feel so terrible asking my GP for more Percocet. I know that doctors in general are very nervous (if not paranoid) about Oxycodone, but what's the alternative? What do you think he would say or do in response to my request? Do you think the next neurologist will do anything differently? And why the ???$* has my last neurologist just completely dismissed me, ignored me, and left me to suffer?! I really don't understand that at all. I am really mad that he just dropped me for no reason. I am very, very confused, and I have no recourse. Nobody seems to acknowledge the pain or care to treat it, and it's making me anxious about the future of my condition and the pain relief I require.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

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