[humblegunner]

What did the DEA have to do with pharmacies not filling prescriptions?

[yarddog]

I have moderate to severe arthritis and my Dr. prescribed lortab for nearly 20 years. He quit around a year ago.

Now I take over the counter ones and some of them hurt my stomach.

[Bobalu]

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I don’t know who is doing this but this is impacting not just pain meds, but antibiotics. Because of the “Superbugs” kids have to be at death’s door now before the Doc around here will write them a script.

This makes the public schools around here giant bacteria factories.

I just had an infected tooth, and got some meds which I was supposed to take every 6 hours.

I did this for several days, it wasn’t getting better so I upped it to every 4 hours.

Got much better but ran out of meds before it was gone.

Called my dentist and he renewed the script BUT the pharmacy couldn’t fill it for 3 days! I am pretty sure my dentist didn’t specify that.

My wife takes Phenol patches and the restrictions on those are ridiculous. She gets the ‘are you a junky?’ questions every time she fills them. She had cancer with a 96% mortality rate so she is lucky to be alive.

[erkelly]

That poor woman should have seen a pain specialist. Ever increasing doses of narcotic meds are not efficacious after a certain point. Oral narcotic medications can only do so much, and there is a point where they become ineffective, even at high doses; indeed, high doses of narcotics are very dangerous. The addition of adjunct pain medications (Lyrica, gabapentin, nortriptyline, etc.) might have really helped her. Iintrathecal delivery of narcotic medication might also have been an option, which would utilize much safer doses of narcotics along with other non-narcotic pain meds such as clonidine, ketamine, lidocaine, Prialt, etc. Changes in her narcotic-type pain medications should have been tried (Suboxone, Dilaudid, methadone, etc.) As well, nerve blocks might have helped her.

[SaraJohnson]

That is terrible. RIP sweet lady. I hope that does not happen to anyone in my family. My mom died from terminal cancer and was in terrible pain until they started giving her morphine in the hospital.

If they would not have taken care of her right; we would have taken her to a hospice where they take care of people as they die. Who abandoned this poor soul to suffer alone with no help? I know the DEA is a problem...but her family could have done something. They could at least now sue the pharmacy for not filling her scripts and causing her to suffer so much with terminal cancer, she killed herself. This would help other, at least.

[rikkir]

I am so sorry for your friend.

I have gotten close to the edge of that cliff several times over the last few months.

I finally found a new pain doctor 150 miles from my house. I am now able to walk to the kitchen, but still can not stand long enough to shower.

If I had terminal cancer, in her shoes I might have gone the same way rather than suffer.
Did she investigate inpatient pain treatment?
What state are you in?