You totally misunderstood my post. The reason he does 2 at the time is so I won't have to come every month. He does not take my insurance and does it to save me money. My doctor DOES do a drug screen EVERY time I go. There is no " call and bother him for script when I need them" because you must SEE the doctor in order to get refills. I could not go 2 months without seeing him then just call and expect a refill. If I took the script like it was written, every 6 hours, they would last 30 days. I do not take them during the night like I would if I was in hospital, they wake you to give you pain meds which is stupid. Nobody said anything about him giving me pills I did not want. I think you should read my post again. Your comment about truly not taking that drug and asking for drug test to prove it doesn't make sense. My scripts last me longer than a month is all I said and THAT makes it go longer than 30 days for me to pick up 2nd script. By the time the 2 month appt comes back around, because I picked up the 2nd script LATER than expected, I end up calling to move my appt because I don't need them yet. That's all. I don't take them just because I have them and the doctor knows, because of the drug tests, just how much I DO take. There is nothing wrong with the way things are being done but by your use of the word gaslighting, leads me to believe you believe in conspiracy theories also. I've been seeing this doctor for over 10 years and really do not care about getting to know a new one. He is thorough and very inquisitive about my condition. He's not one of these 5 minute doctors, as I call some of them. He takes his time with you and really cares about his patients, which is one reason I always have to wait for up to an hour, but I don't mind. It is a pain and rehabilitation clinic so he specializes in pain management. There are people that come see him every month but their insurance pays. When I had the Obama care, as I call it, it paid a huge portion of my bill and I went monthly. When I went on disability, and medicaid along with that, he didn't take that and that is when we discussed my coming every 2 months instead of every month in order to save me money because it's $120 to see him. That would be a lot to pay every month. He did it to help me out plus the fact that I was being compliant with my medications and medical imagining appts, he decided to do it. There are also a lot of pain doctors that make you bring in any unused medications from previous scripts. He's not one of them. It's all good here.

Forgot to ask and it wouldn't let me add it to the first reply but, why on earth would I want him to stop writing the prescriptions? I don't leave with scripts in hand. They send them to the pharmacy and fill one and one goes on my file for when I need it.