Then we are also facing and having to fight a “Fake Opioid Crisis”. Having Gastropresis I can’t take a Opioid on a regular basis. Valium is the only viable out of 13 meds for Perpherial Neuropathy and when my less than adequate Internist quite they promoted a APN to her spot, she is NOT qualified to treat a patient like me. She refused to renew my Valium and just let me Cold Turkey and try to do a 5 month taper with a 2 week left over of current script. I challenge 4 Specialist due to drug ractions.
If you change doctors you get accused of doctor shopping. Or hospital hopping. You don’t have a choice when the facilities you’ve used for years become hell holes of incompentence in Unsafe areas due to crime.
My husband is having the same issue. He is not allowed his pain meds or very many of them at one time. He lives with chronic back pain that has been labeled as inoperable.
We are now treating those that have the legitimate medical diagnosis of chronic pain as criminals and still allowing the criminals to run amok.
What is an APN? Nurse Practitioner?