DrugBuyers.Com: NROP - Almost always the same Doctor!

Hi I'm a Big "lurker" but maybe that will change since I've just gotten access to a laptop and can use it unless my daughter who is starting nursing school next week needs it takes it away!!! I belong to both sides of this board and just thought I'd put in my 2cents re: the whole NROP. This board has definitely educated me in many ways. A couple of years ago I came upon (not even sure how I found it now)a place on the web that sold hydro's. Had a neck, shoulder , left arm injury in Jan 2001 and had tests run, (multiple) and ended up seeing 4 drs. besides physical therapy. (Yes this does have a NROP point!!!)Well where I live there are just 1 group of neurologists, 1 pain doc, and the physical medicine doctor I saw was about the only 1 giving out any pain medicine but finally he just said you need to stop taking it (this is after 2 yrs!!) and just exercise and deal with or become a "drug addict". His exact words!! Then the pain doctor for 3 yrs. only wanted to give all those wonderful epidurals and steriod injections. You know writing a prescription for any kind of pain meds doesn't bring in money. Well finally my insurance changed and looked at all those injections as "surgical" and that went to my very high deductible. Now I'm going to get back to the point of NROP etc.... I did get a copy of my MRI from March 2001 and my medical records from the pain doc except from the last time I saw him. But before I had those records I ordered from NROP (didn't even know that's what it was at the time just saw I could order what I needed)Well I thought "how great is this!!" I don't have to see any more doctors about all this, tell them how I really hurt, blah blah blah. And at this time, the prices weren't bad at all. I had no problems until the day their website posted a problem and if any of y'all who ordered from them might remember, it was Buymeds. Well that really burst my bubble and it took me awhile until I found another one and they lasted a little while ALLUSASCRIPTS then they too didn't let you order hydro's either. Well thank goodness I joined this board and now a member of the records OP group. I've seen different discussions about this and of course if you have the medical records it's much cheaper to go that route. But there are different circumstances for everyone and I've seen a few people that seem to look down on those (and I include me in the "those")that order from NROP like maybe their need for medication isn't warranted or they need to have the documentation to prove that they are in pain or whatever. I know I'm not saying that exactly right but hope y'all get the gist of it. Well with the ROP's I believe that there is a cutoff period at how old your medical records can be. Well if you have a chronic pain condition, it's not real likely that it's going to change a whole lot. I go to my primary doc every few months for "checkup" (this is not doctor that treated my initial inj. but knows of it etc.) regarding my seasonal allergies, asthma but I'm not going to go back to the pain doc for more trigger point inj. ($300) or cervical epidurals ($800) to get 10 or 15 7.5 hydros or better yet 20 ultram or whatever. But then it seems as though that my medical records w/ the ROP will expire at some time or another. Has anyone dealt with this before? and if so what do you have to do then?? Always having a NROP available when needed sure would help and hopefully will be around awhile but I really question it at times and what are people going to do if they "go out of business"? Doctors under prescribe and then when you live where I do and this is a city including surrounding little suburbs of almost 200,000 that only has once doctor that specializes in pain management and he originally was an anesthesiologist (which maybe they all are I'm not sure)So if he wrote scripts to treat all his pain patients adequetely w/narcotics he would be scared to death and probably rightly so as to send off red flags to DEA, so therefore we all suffer.
Well I really got going on this tangent quite a bit but I'm not sure if I've ever seen anyone address the question of having medical records that document diagnosis, treatments etc. but then they will eventually be old because of going to NROP or ROP. My pcp doc. of course knows my trouble but I don't even get any documentation from her (not even a slip when I check out) and my file with her is pretty big as I've seen her for 9 yrs. I do however know that things are going to have to change for chronic pain patients because having to hurt all the time is pretty bad. Docs won't give enough meds but then there is the tolerance issue. I take the hydro and soma and it gets to be a problem and I have to go without it for about 4 days (that's about all I can take before I give in to the pain lately. Sometimes I could go for 1-2weeks) I've never taken anything stronger which I sure wish I could but that's impossible in this town. My dear dad who has since died, crushed his elbow a little over 3 yrs. ago and they gave him vicodin 5/500 or maybe it was 7.5 but anyway it was take 1 or 2 every 6-8 hrs. as needed for pain. Well needless to say it didn't touch it. He was scheduled to see the pain doc (yep same one I see, for an injection in his neck) and we brought up the issue about the vicodin not helping and he put him on some morphine. Well I thought that was all good and got the pills filled and it was give 1 4x's a day. Well that didn't even help either. I had always thought morphine was so strong. So anyway I ended up taking one and it didn't help me out too much and my elbow wasn't crushed although my discs in my neck hit nerves, I'm sure the bones in his elbow did also. Come to find out later that it was a low dose of morphine (10mg) and they said to ice his elbow also!! Well I've jumped from subj. to subj. and sorry about that. (must be the new laptop!!LOL)Thanks for listening and if anyone has thoughts.........