No one can say what a doctor will or won't prescribe for a patient.

You need to realize you cannot tell a doctor what to prescribe. You aren't going to find a doctor to prescribe high doses of pain meds. You have to see a doctor more than one other two times.

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The center has a high review online - maybe you can find help there- i live in Canada but each treatment is individualized so i hope you find help ((hugs)) polar

Thank you so much polarbare , I will check them out!

Polar means well, but the laws in Canada are quite different.

Your Dr. in Atlanta should have had you get a Dr. lined up before you moved. At this point, it's going to be very difficult to find a Pain Managment Dr. who will prescribe the dose of narcotics you were on. The one offering the Tramadol might be your best option, while you keep seeking one who'll maybe give you more the kind of narcotics your looking for. Or starting with the one who'll give the 1 Percocet per day and gain their trust and see if they'll increase that amount as you go.

Most Pain Management Dr.'s now choose to do other therapies like injections, massage, biofeedback, PRPT, etc. with small amounts of narcotic meds. You don't say what your pain is, so that's not clear. But if you're just looking for meds, it sounds like general arthritis or joint type pain. That's difficult to get high dose narcotics for these days. Using NSAIDS with the narcotic meds can help quite a bit.

Eventually, you'll have to make a choice, as to which PM Dr. you want to go to that offers you the best chance to pain control. Getting in the correct mindset will help quite a bit. That mindset is that narcotics are not given out like they used to be. You've moved to a new State where no Dr. knows anything about you. Your mindset will need to be what Pain Dr. is willing to offer you the best option for your pain, not who will give me what I had because that's gone.

Treatment in the U.S. isn't so individualized anymore. You have to have a very specific type and range of disease and illness to get any types of narcotics. Dr.'s will try to treat you with anything other than Narcotics and if you don't have a specific type of Disease, if you just have general joint pain or arthritis or those type of general chronic pains, getting narcotics will be close to impossible.

So if you have a Dr. offering to treat you with Tramadol, that might be your best bet.

Take care and good luck with your search.

You can still get high does of meds without having even a real diagnosis. My friends girlfriend gets high doses of meds and doesn't even have a real disease. This is in Michigan though. In Alabama it's going to be tougher though. I don't have a typical disease and no imaging to prove it other than I have a severely occluded vein in my right leg and I get a moderate amount of pain meds. My doctor actually told me straight up that there is nothing more he can do for me other than offer some meds to help numb the pain. Only vascular surgery can help of which two surgeons said they do not perform vascular stenting surgeries to relieve pain. They will only do so if my leg deteriorates and starts to swell, have skin ulcers, or turn black.

All of the hysteria around pain meds is really making it hard for people with understudies diseases to get pain meds. I was switched to a pain management doctor after Norco went to the new schedule. My pain doctor tells me all of the time that I don't need him and that 40 mgs a day of Norco should be prescribed by my PCP. He laughs at the fact my PCP is too scared to write me scripts for such a low dose. I don't get piss tested, but I am ready to be if the need arises, and my doc never counts my pills. He writes on all of my visits that the patient displays no signs of addiction or drug seeking behavior. He is a good doc. He will try all kinds of other meds too, but my insurance company always denies them. They denied Lyrica saying that the doctor has not put me on a high enough amount of narcotics to warrant the expensive med. Insurance said there are cheaper narcotics and muscle relaxer meds they need to try on me before Lyrica can be approved. I am open to anything and would actually prefer vascular surgery. Any how, don't be discouraged, you just have to find the right doctor to treat you. Also, the other posters are right that a new doc might not give you what the old doc did. I used to get 6 Norco's a day, then other pain doc cut me down to three, and this one had me down to three with a long acting med. They now took me off the long acting med and give me 4 Norco a day which is working. Some days I only need 2, some days pain flares and I need all four. But it all works out to what they gave me. I would go with the one Percocet and then see if that doc would work you up to something more. Maybe he is just trying to feel you out before he raises your dose.