My New GP is refusing to prescribe...

chiarieds

Hi @ASJ - just to say that Pregabalin isn't an opioid, but care needs to be taken if it is taken together with an opioid. What Drs have found is that opioids are good in the short term only, & then they are not as effective, so you feel you're in more pain. I used to wear Fentanyl patches & had Oromorph for breakthrough pain. I slowly weaned myself off the patches, & now just take Pregabalin at the max. dose for neurological pain. I don't actually think I feel any worse now.

Last year a coroner reported on a sad death, the result of taking Oyycodone & Amitriptyline, which resulted in oversedation by depressing the Central Nervous system. This is why GPs are now wary of prescribing these meds together. At the moment I feel you should be guided by your GP.

Boomtown

I totally understand what you're saying but ive got the pain management prescribing gabapenten my GP giveing me two morphine patches a week has well has diazepam and sertraline and amatriptlean and astrovasatin, lidocaine plasters and dhidrocaine tablets all this because ive a crumbling spine, osteoarthritis in both feet and both my knees ( left knee waiting for the operation) and carpool tunnel syndrome in both hands, anxiety and depression. ?

swanlady74

I have just moved and cannot access one of my meds with new drs they say they don’t stock it so I asked if they could get it in the answer was no. I am on Tramacet and Gabapentin. I still get the Gabapentin. Have now been given Tramadol and Paracetamol it’s upsetting me and I am off my feet most of the time. I have many illness peripheral neuropathy Atrial Fibfillation amongst others. I was t prescribed my meds by a c private consultant. I manage wonderfully but not now. I don’t know what to do. I am more or less off my feet now living alone .

Holly_Scope

Hi @swanlady74 so sorry to hear this. It might be worth contacting your GP to make them aware that the replacement they've prescribed isn't doing what you need it to and asking for a review/an alternative.

swanlady74

I have just moved and cannot access one of my meds with new drs they say they don’t stock it so I asked if they could get it in the answer was no. I am on Tramacet and Gabapentin. I still get the Gabapentin. Have now been given Tramadol and Paracetamol it’s upsetting me and I am off my feet most of the time. I have many illness peripheral neuropathy Atrial Fibfillation amongst others. I was t prescribed my meds by a c private consultant. I manage wonderfully but not now. I don’t know what to do. I am more or less off my feet now living alone .

1bumblebee

I really sympathise with the people who are going through the mill with their withdrawals symptoms. I am now going through this at my surgery. I'm honestly giving up. I have a acute pain syndrome and have been summoned to see a surgery pharmacist. I have made an appointment with my Dr first. I feel I must be mad, as far as I know pain meds are for people in pain,and I have been managing my pain for 20 hrs. I'm almost 67 and don't wish to be in a bed rolling around in agony for how many years I have on this planet. It makes no sense to me at all. My G.P of 20 years and the professor who diagnosed me 17 years ago worked my prescription out with me. Now someone else has come along with their own opinion after 20 years,and that's all it is,a different opinion. Well they will go home that evening and will not give me a second thought,or the pain they have left me in. This is ridiculous I think. They don't know me from a hole in the wall. My GP of twenty years retired,and I have been at this present surgery a year.

1bumblebee

Sorry not 20 hours, 20 years...