‘What do I do?’ This woman lives in severe pain and is losing her family doctor
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A New Brunswick woman losing her family doctor faces a dire situation: she can't renew her prescription for controlled substances, leaving her to wait in emergency rooms.
A patient suffering without access to critical medications due to a doctor shortage in New Brunswick says the weeks ahead are going to be ‘very difficult.’
Without a family doctor, she and many others face significant difficulties renewing prescriptions for opioid painkillers.
Parish, who lives in Victoria Corner just outside the town Woodstock, has been in constant pain since a car accident in 2014 led to a total hip replacement.
“They diagnosed me with CRPS, which is complex regional pain syndrome, which means my body had a traumatic incident where my sympathetic nervous system doesn’t know how to shut down because there’s so much pain in the leg,” she said.
For the past eight years, she has relied on daily doses of oxycodone and oxycocet — opioids classified as controlled substances — to manage her pain. But now, her family doctor is leaving at the end of the month, and she hasn’t been able to find a new one.
“There’s nowhere here in the local area to get it refilled. I have called every doctor’s office from Edmundston all the way to Fredericton. There are no doctors accepting patients, and their list is endless,” Parish said.
Parish said her current family doctor, as well as 811, told her walk in clinics and eVisit NB, a telemedicine service, would not be able to renew her prescription after her refills expire.
That leaves her with two options: the emergency room or NB Health Link, a stop-gap service designed to help New Brunswickers without a family doctor.
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