Anyone allowed to stay on pain management on TPAPN?

[April Thompson]

I have a lawyer, I diverted over two years ago, and it's taking all this time for the board to respond, and their proposed discipline is Tpapn, and that it would remain confidential and off my record once completed. 
I'm having trouble deciding if I'm willing to do the program or if I'm going to surrender my license, I've been on pain management for basically 10 years and I'm terrified to cold turkey stop gabapentin and hydrocodone but when I call TPAPN they say that they are more open to people being on prescription medication than they used to be. but I don't see that anywhere in these forums.

I feel like the people who answer the phone at TPAPN . Just tell you whatever you wanna hear and then once you're assigned a case manager, they will say absolutely not.. is this y'all's experience? 
 

and has anyone been allowed to stay in a home health job? Because they told me that was possible too but I don't know if I believe them

[Sky1217, LPN]

April Thompson you are openly admitting that you diverted from work. This should tell you that obviously you have an addiction.
 

Base on your following statement this is what I can understand;  

"I'm having trouble deciding if I'm willing to do the program or if I'm going to surrender my license, I've been on pain management for basically 10 years and I'm terrified to cold turkey stop gabapentin and hydrocodone" 

It seems like you are not ready to admit that you are an addict and that you are willing to take all the necessary steps to get better and recover. All I can get from your statement is that you are more concern on wether you can continue to use, instead of worrying about losing the license you worked so hard for. 
 

My advise to you is that you take responsibility for your actions and go into the program which is a privilege and an opportunity for you to recover and continue to be a nurse. It's not going to be easy but in my experience getting caught diverting and getting into the program was the best thing that happened to me. 
 

I wish you luck! 

[NurseJackie69]

Knowing what I know about long term opioid use, I would have surgery again. As for your own monitoring program, the BON will not allow it IF you live in the same state because monitoring is more than checking in daily and peeing when told. Monitoring vua the state nurse monitoring program is Recovery meetings x 3 or 4 weekly and sending that report to the BON, therapy from an addictionologst and a report sent from her or him to the BON quarterly and a report sent by your supervisor to the BON quarterly and your own quarterly report to the BON and......they want to see how you do with the stress of working as a nurse while you are doing all of the above. This is why they will not accept your own monitoring program.