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I've been given pk's for an abcess before but then I got into a car wreck and was bruised and battered all over and they have me ib profen. Stupid.

(09-09-2016, 03:57 PM)Ladybugsrcool Wrote: [ -> ]I've been given pk's for an abcess before but then I got into a car wreck and was bruised and battered all over and they have me ib profen. Stupid.

I agree they have no grasp of needs in that arena.

Or are running scared.

I tried to refill something recently and the pharmacist said oh it is one day early ....I said on heaven forbid that I might have one extra....

Chatted a bit about it and he said that sometimes it is the insurance companies that force them , but then the next month their phones were on the blink and I went in 2 days later when I could get there and asked that it was not my fault the phones were done and I had tried to refill.....


And that I should get to refill next month on the day I had tried to 2 days early....

Guess what they agreed to it.

Wrote it on their white board.

So I am not sure about how much power they have , more than one might think.

Oh, I know this is a little off topic of you original post but somewhat related to ....

I get so flustered with them not RX'ing properly.

Yeah I've been told it's too early etc before. It's horrible trying to find a good physician where I live. Which is unfortunate since I live in pain. But I'm also uninsured which I may as well be non existent at this point lol.

It's only certain scripts they do that with... My s0ma script can (sometimes) be fill on day 25 other times it day 28... On my pk's it's 30 I don't care if the world is ending tomorrow, 30 days period... BUT ... I have another script (appox $700) and they'll fill that one in a week! Really?

Ice

PKs have become horrible to get, even when you are in the hospital. I had a c section with complications a few months ago, and when the spinal they gave me wore off, I was crawling up the walls. No one would give me anything stronger than Tylenol until. my husband called the complaint line. Then, I got a morphine drip almost immediately. God help you if you have chronic pain.

(09-09-2016, 09:13 PM)Batgirl Wrote: [ -> ]PKs have become horrible to get, even when you are in the hospital. I had a c section with complications a few months ago, and when the spinal they gave me wore off, I was crawling up the walls. No one would give me anything stronger than Tylenol until. my husband called the complaint line. Then, I got a morphine drip almost immediately. God help you if you have chronic pain.

It's weird, I know others who were given scripts of percs and beyond without even asking for it.  I guess it depends on the doctor and your insurance plan, unfortunately.

I was given percodan after my son I had a horrendously long labor only 5mg but I was grateful. My dr. at that time was good but obgyn's don't treat pain or pain mgmt. :/

I returned to a previous pain mgmt provider about 4 months ago after a current one suddenly and without warning took me off opiate pk's. I explained to the previous provider what had happened. He completely understood and put me right back on pk's. We continued some steroid injections which coincidentally helped a LOT. Month later I follow up. This guy gives me 3 paper scripts for opiate pk's, two of them post dated, and says "see you in 3 months".

The difference in approach is unbelievable.

That sounds about right these days... It really depends on the Doc...

Just yesterday in this "po-dunk" town I stay in,. Was a Doc that had been here appox 2 yrs and in came the f3ds... Locked the doors and now he seems to be in for a world of hurt his own self!

I surely don't understand the argument... If I never "increase" my dosage and take it the rest of my life does the "addiction" really come into play here?!

Some folks need statins... Blood thinners ... And other stuff and they tell you that you're gonna have to take these FOREVER! My question is What's the freakin difference!?

Now I know those things do not addict, but have to take them everyday for the rest of your life is just as bad is it not....

I don't get it... When I have to take something for pain, I actually never "feel" anything... Just the relief ....

Our good old D3A hard at work telling Docs how they should do things.... Maybe instead of all the school and on hands practice doesn't count for anything nowdays....

All you need is 8 weeks D3A trianing and you know it all....

{{{Rant Over}}}

Ice

One rant of my own. When i was caregiving my mother with incurable cancer in 94, her brilliant team of doctors made one mistake after another.

First, the doctor whom had misdiagnosed my father ten yrs earlier with diabetes, and it was pancreatic cancer, this wonderful doctor kept telling my mother it was pneumonia. My son whom was two and I moved back in to caregive because i knew that doctor killed more people in my former home town than anyone.

The second opinion doctor told her to go home and die. No meds. He sent a bill for thousands to the estaTE OF my mother. She was not dead.

Then, we had a third opinion. She started chemo. She was released into my care as she was too weak by then. One day before her death, i called the doctor and explained that the prednisone was making my mother extremely anxious and uncomfortable. So, instead of one xanax, I gave her another one at nite as she requested. I explained, and he knew, that i was the caregiver. I handled the meds. I had been there when family members passed over.

The next day when i called to report she had passed, that rat bastard screamed at me, u made her die an addict to xanax. Excuse me? In lieu of the one a day he dx'd, he knew my sister was a big shot doctor in NYC. She prescribed the xanax.

And, how, could one extra xanax given to my mother to help her pass without fear, cause her to become an addict?

I have no faith in doctors having read so many legal cases. Haven been at the hospital with my medical sister every weekend for a couple years. And being the family caregiver.

I know that in the event Dr. villanova is now dying, and he requested a second xanax as he was dying, no one would have thought twice.

The words he said to me could have hurt me forever had i not realized that doctors are very fallible. And, the autopsy report showed the cancer had spread to every part of her bones and body.

So, one extra xanax to help her pass and her death was my fault? (That is what dr. vilanova said to me.)

Asswipes. The vast majority of them.

All the really good doctors were taken down by LE. Forced to retire for treating pain. This has been going on for years.

As you do unto others, may God do the same unto u. Is it scripture? not particularly. It is how i feel.