Whatever you decide I can't imagine any place being as awful as Ohio is. The pain management doctors here want to begin dropping the amount of your dose right off the bat. The one I went to (University of Cincinnati medical center) insisted on doing it at my first appointment, and also insisted he take an entire 120 mg from my 345 mg morphine dose at a rate of 40 mg every 5 days. After the second drop the pain began to get severe and not just in the old places but in areas I never had pain in the past. Then when I complained about it and told him he had to put part of it back he discharged me from the clinic claiming that I disagreed with his treatment plan. Luckily my primary care doctor who referred me to him started writing them for me again, but that quack idiot had me in severe pain and misery for 2 months, and he did that drop in my dose before anything else, you know, like running tests (MRI, EMG) to determine the severity of my condition, or asking me for how long I have been on the dose, which has been 8 years, and 6 years before that on lower doses. He did nothing to find out how badly I am injured, how long I have been injured, or whether or not I was happy with the way things are going, which I am. So now my primary care doctor is going to write for me until we leave for Chicago next month but get this... that 345 mg dose that was so very effective for 8 years is now falling short of fully relieving my pain. So I need more now, but I don't want to ask for an increase here because I know I won't get one, and my PCP has informed me that he doesn't have enough experience with opioids to feel comfortable changing the medication, because that was my plan when I needed an increase in meds, to change it to hydromorphone instead. My doctor in Chicago will do it so I guess I have to wait until next month to get it done. I see this has gotten lengthy, so I will stop. I just wanted to warn anyone on opioids about moving to Ohio. They don't know what they are doing here. Every state has an opioid crisis, but others don't resolve it by taking much needed medication away from responsible patients. Shaun and Casi

Here in Arkansas where I live the pain management is good. My doctor and many more go out of there way to help you. I pray that where ever you go that you find a good doctor that cares.

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I live in north Texas in area an hour away from Dallas. It is referred to as Texoma because we are also near the Oklahoma boxer. I have an excellent pain management doctor which includes a extended wellness program where they call you every week to ask you how your doing such as medication issues etc. Just like everywhere else they adhere to governmental regulations. It is good to have the added benefit of the wellness program because they talk directly to doctor with issues you are having. To add the job market is plentiful here. I am not currently working but want partime after physical therapy and am able to drive. What area in Texas are you looking at ? To add I see the pain management doctor usually once a month unless she prescribes refills on my meds.