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Anybody know of CVS new Policy on not more than #90 Oxycodone
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But then again, I am not a doctor, not your doctor, so I do not have all the information (nor should I) regarding why those many pills were prescribed for you.
I am not a medical professional. I comment on personal experiences
To have to hop from pharmacy to pharmacy, after getting your doc fora refill and being treated like an addicts (do you gets also get the eye-roll look of sarcasm when you tell your doc you are in agony?) is sucking out the iota of energy I have left.
Nobody should have to fight for pain relief, just because other users abuse drugs. We need painkillers to survive, yet we are lumped into the abuses category. It's a disgrace, and each month I'm left in a crying, rage of frustration that the system treats those of us in chronic pain either dismissively, or as if we aree faking symptoms to get a cheap high.
And it's only going to get worse. In CA the DEA now automatically flags pharmacies that fill beyond a certain amount. They don't care if you have a well documented medical history that proves you are in pain. The DEA simply makes decisions on who is an abuser upon the number of pills taken a month.
Docs and pharmacies in CA are now I real fear of getting their licenses yanked, so they either refuse to write me a full prescription, or refuse to fill it all.
We, the disabled, sufferers, are the ones getting burned. A country as advanced as the US., Where we spend a fortune in insurance and co pays., etc. has no shame in depriving sick people the care and help they desperately need. I recently got my French citizenship, and hopefully Ina few months I can get into their system them.
Being treated like a junkie once a month is a horrible emotional experience, and causes terrible flare ups from driving to fifty different pharmacies to get a script filled, being treated like I'm a fraud, having to scream and argue that they need just check their own system which proves I've been getting the same meds for ten years......etc etc etc.
The whole ordeal leaves me in a physical and emotional mess. We all know that stress can increase physical pain. I really, truly hate the system in CA. I'm grateful i still have access (barely) to the single opiate that helps me, but it's an abomination that I, and others in a similar position, must go through sheer physical and emotional hell just to get a damn script filled.
Ok. Rant over. Only you guys understand.
Im in South Florida
I just might drop trou and show them my scars.