Yes, it is now much harder to find a Primary who will write a pain script for more than 2 weeks.
If you are in chronic pain and I mean high level 8-9 pain you need a new script each month and they want you to go through Pain Management. Hubby had his shoulder ball replaced 8 months ago, ran out his Medicare Rationed PT, still in pain until the muscles are rebuilt requires daily pain med not a 2 week course. Still doing his PT at home.
Well those of us who have had all the nerve blocks, steroid injections, side effect riddled drugs like Lyrica will tell you they don’t work and we would like to live with a little less pain. And should not be forced to need a new script every month. Since we are retired Military over 65 we are DOD MANDATED to use Base Dispensary or Express Scripts, and the script MUST contain the words CHRONIC PAIN or it will be filled as a 2 week script. All they want to script for is 5 MG NORCO and that crap needs Nexium to take it will eat your stomach up. And 5 mg is no more than 2 extra strength Tylenol.
So that forces you to make a trip to the doc’s office to get a new paper script monthly. Even if all you do is pick it up at the window. It can NOT be faxed or E-scripted in. It must be a paper script.
“So that forces you to make a trip to the doc’s office to get a new paper script monthly. Even if all you do is pick it up at the window. It can NOT be faxed or E-scripted in. It must be a paper script.”
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What a boondoggle this entire thing has become.
The government,aka the nanny state,has made life so terribly complicated.
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