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So have you told your pain management Dr and how has the reaction ship been ? Diff uoh get gf within 6 months I can't edit I was doing voice to text I meant did you get off of the medication within six months

Also I thought Texas was 3 years for RN , but people keep saying 5... is it 5?!

What you're saying is definitely helpful. I've already had a few surgeries and lots of epidural steroid injections that never help and are really expensive, in fact, I had one a few months ago that gave me a wet tap and ended me up in the ER.What you're saying is definitely helpful. I've already had a few surgeries and lots of epidural steroid injections that never help and are really expensive, in fact, I had one a few months ago that gave me a wet tap and ended me up in the ER needing a blood patch. I could definitely try to get off of it . But that seems so scary. mom so let's say I did that and they suspend my license and I do my own drug monitoring program, then what about gabapentin? Like if I did a drug monitoring program, but I show them I have a prescription for that is it less strict than TPAPN ? of course I also take ambien:/. That would be really hard to come off of two because same thing. I've probably been on it for 10 years I could have another spinal fusion because I need it but the last fusion only helped for like 6 months to a year and I did get off norco but then I ended up right back when the pain started to get unmanageable again I do think it causes more harm than good. but I also feel like I will not be able to work without it. And I am going to have to leave my job in like 2 weeks when I give the board a response which means I won't have insurance. And I have no idea what to do for a job. I've sent out a bunch of applications and not heard back from anyone this is really helpful. I wish you could get answers like this from TPAPN. I'm scared to tell my pain management Dr because I know substance use disorder will be in my medical chart forever. I've been a nurse 21 years. I have grown to hate it over the last 2 years. So it's really hard to imagine going through all of this for a job that I want to leave so badly. But I just go back and forth every 10 minutes. I always wanted to be a teacher. And I was thinking , I could go back for my bachelors and find a rewarding career teaching social studies or something and never look back ... HOWEVER... now that I am looking into that it seems like a background check would show disciplinary action from the BON and if that's true I wouldn't want to spend 1.5 years finishing a bachelors just to be denied a teaching certification. or not be able to find a teaching job because they can see it. I haven't stopped crying for days . I've never been more terrified and panicked. It feels like I'm drowning

this is really helpful. I wish you could get answers like this from TPAPN. I'm scared to tell my pain management Dr because I know substance use disorder will be in my medical chart forever. I've been a nurse 21 years. I have grown to hate it over the last 2 years. So it's really hard to imagine going through all of this for a job that I want to leave so badly. But I just go back and forth every 10 minutes. I always wanted to be a teacher. And I was thinking , I could go back for my bachelors and find a rewarding career teaching social studies or something and never look back ... HOWEVER... now that I am looking into that it seems like a background check would show disciplinary action from the BON and if that's true I wouldn't want to spend 1.5 years finishing a bachelors just to be denied a teaching certification. or not be able to find a teaching job because they can see it. I haven't stopped crying for days . I've never been more terrified and panicked. It feels like I'm drowning

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