Posted on 09/05/2014 10:22:03 PM PDT by JCG
Stricter rules for the country's most commonly prescribed painkiller were rolled out on Thursday by the FDA, the last step in a policy change that has been coming down the pipeline for years, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
Hydrocodone will now be in a more serious and restrictive category. Doctors will be barred from calling in prescriptions by telephone, and patients will not be able to get refills on the same prescription, but will have to return to a physician for a new one. It will also have be to kept in special vaults in pharmacies. The Drug Enforcement Administration said it will take 45 days for the new rules to take effect.
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And what about the people who can't make all those trips or only with extreme difficulty and more pain? I guess, under Obama the benevolent one, the answer is just to die.
I have done hard labor all my life. I am almost 60 and still am able to work fairly hard just not as often. I wanted 45 hydros a month.
I had to go to “pain management” and first thing doc did was double the hydros and put me on time release morphine, come back every month and pee in a dam cup. How the heck can I drive? He just shrugged his shoulders.
I never peed in a dam cup for anyone. Then doc treats me like I am in Jr High with lectures and almost a disdain for me.
So I walked out last time and told him to shove his pee cup.
No hydros for me, not even 45 a month for a beat up old man so he can cut firewood, etc.
I’ve never been much of one for pills, I avoid painkillers unless it gets unbearable because I’ve assumed pain is a warning to restrict my movement in order to heal. Might be wrong about that, but that’s been my assumption. I’m not yet old enough to experience the constant aches and pains, though. Getting there, but not yet.
However, on two occasions I’ve been prescribed Hydrocodone and it provided relief for which I was very grateful. The first occasion, I was awakened in the middle of the night by severe chest pains. I know looking back that my reaction was stupid, but I didn’t want to make a scene and wake the whole neighborhood, or the expense of calling EMT so I drove myself to the ER. Turned out to be basically what was once called pleurisy, severe chest wall pain from coughing, I’d had bronchitis. They gave me Hydrocodone and kept me there for observation for two hours. Amazing, that pain that was almost debilitating was just ... gone. Not loopy or buzzed or disoriented, I just felt good, no pain.
The second time, I came down with shingles on Christmas Day, the first Christmas after my father passed away. Didn’t realize I was that stressed, but it was a trial to maintain a jovial appearance to keep the holiday together when I felt his absence so strongly. Started out as a bump behind my hairline at my left temple, pain and a sensation of cold. Thought it was an insect bite of some sort initially, but then it began to spread. Eventually, the rash covered the left side of my forehead and almost got into my left eye. I can’t describe the pain, it was like it drilled down inside my skull. You wouldn’t think a simple rash could hurt like that, but it did. Awful. Hydrocodone gave me relief from that, not total relief but enough that I could sleep.
While I don’t agree with your position on Pot. the pain med hits me too. We just have to have 1 paper script, but it must be refilled and signed for each month. And doctor can write for 6 months worth. Same goes for Valium. It probably also will include those addictive drugs like Xanax. All our other meds are 90 day.
I just filled a NORCO script yesterday, and it has 1 refill, but that is due to the fact I had a bad reaction to the 10 mg yellow tab. This was Lore Tab, minus some Tylenol. Nothing was to change but the level of Tylenol. Yet the color of the pill and fillers did change. And I had a bad adverse reaction to it. Even the 5 mg is no longer white, but a off white with red flecks, and it made me sick at my stomach and dizzy despite the anti-nausea med I take with it.
Navy base fills our scripts, DOD MANDATED 4/14/14. Medicare and Tricare Life (Ret. Military over 65) our health care is totally government controlled.
The VA hands out this drug by the TRUCK LOAD! Go stand by the VA Rx window and probably 70% of the people in line will get it.
Heck they may as well just put it in a Pez dispenser.
What does ‘prolly’ mean...?
He’s from Missouri. Don’t be making fun of the way he talks.... :)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Prolly
Google also works.
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So I walked out last time and told him to shove his pee cup.
I heard it was fairly easy to get medical cannabis in Arizona, you might want to try that.
As far as peeing in a cup I'd recommend getting used to that. As you get older you'll get more and more requests to do so. One of them might save your life.
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Marinol is more effective and has better dosage control
I already answered that
I must’ve missed it. Was your answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’?
you lack cognitive abilities....perhaps too much dope
being drug tested like a junkie was an unpleasant experience along with having a controlled substance agreement read to me like a 5 year old
I will have to find a schedule III alternative---I can't deal with this
Wide open borders, drugs all over the place, and the DEA is worried about treating grandfathers with back pain like addicts---the new normal...
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