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re: Louisiana has more opiod prescriptions than people
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:24 pm to smuphy72
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:24 pm to smuphy72
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t really is an epidemic. My mom is dependent on them. She had a minor back surgery 7 years ago. She bounced back after that one and ruptured another disc and has been stuck on them since then. It's a sad thing, but she won't admit she needs any kind of help.
My dad has degenerative arthritis in his spine. He's in pretty much constant pain but wont take anything stronger than tylenol. I can't say i blame him.
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Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:25 pm to Jim Rockford
I had surgery a week ago for something that usually requires 6 weeks of pain pills prescribed. Yet, I didn't even need them after the third day. Maybe I'm just lucky though.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:32 pm to smuphy72
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osted by smuphy72 ? ? on 10/6/16 at 10:59 pm to Winston Cup
It really is an epidemic. My mom is dependent on them. She had a minor back surgery 7 years ago. She bounced back after that one and ruptured another disc and has been stuck on them since then. It's a sad thing, but she won't admit she needs any kind of help.
You're not alone, my mom has the same problem. It has put a strain on the our family. I just wish she would be truthful about her problem.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:34 pm to slackster
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Maybe to you, but that is a shocking number
Its a shocking number, but at the same time I am sure just about every La citizen knows at least one person who is an addict or is trying to recover or has recovered...
Every once in awhile it seems like I am always hearing about someone else I knew growing up or someone I know of is now an addict. I have a relative who is in a very bad place right now because of addiction. One of those people, I knew growing up.. OD'd and died two months ago. I know of people who had a plant job for 15+ yrs, became and addict and within a matter of a yr and a half lost his job, his wife, etc. If you look hard enough its all around us.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:34 pm to jcaz
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I had surgery a week ago for something that usually requires 6 weeks of pain pills prescribed. Yet, I didn't even need them after the third day. Maybe I'm just lucky though
Same here got a 30 day prescription for Vicodin for an ear infection, I took 2,
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:42 pm to CHEDBALLZ
Lumbar disc surgery
Was also prescribed some trippy muscle relaxers. Took one, blacked out 3 minutes later, threw the rest in the trash next morning.
Was also prescribed some trippy muscle relaxers. Took one, blacked out 3 minutes later, threw the rest in the trash next morning.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:47 pm to CHEDBALLZ
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Same here got a 30 day prescription for Vicodin for an ear infection, I took 2,
That's the problem in a nutshell. Unless its some rare tropical parasite boring into their head, nobody has any business getting vicodin for an ear infection. Just tough it out like ten year olds have since time began.
Meanwhile doctors are scared to give terminal patients in intractable pain the meds they need in sufficient quantities.
Posted on 10/6/16 at 11:47 pm to jcaz
Cut my finger a couple years ago, needed 4 stitches... script for 2 week supply of tramadol... for a frickING cut... i didn't even fill it.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 12:29 am to Goose
You almost get pain killers for every visit to the doctor now. Drs are getting kickbacks from Pharma, meanwhile people are getting addicted, what do they do next? Prescribe more medicine.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 12:37 am to Sao
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There is no national database for doctors to refer to in terms of medical history per patient SSN. Use a different pharmacy for each Rx and it's invisible
But there is a state database. If a doc runs your SS# they can see everything you have gotten filled, when and where it was filled, in that state.
And I don't k ow about other states, but they are cracking down like a mofo here. Pill counts, drug tests, cut back on quantity and strength.
Good buddy just had a kidney stone (7mm I think he said, I don't kbow much about them so that might not be correct, but it was a monster) and all they gave him was tramadol.
Now 5+ years ago and longer, you basically went in, told them what you wanted and got it and then some.
Also pain clinics are being shut down left and right.
The government needs to create a demand for all that heroin we are manufacturing from the poppy fields in Afghanistan that we are cultivating.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 12:43 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 12:38 am to Goose
It's called patient satisfaction.
You can thank Obama and his Affordable Care Act for that.
Many MDs/PAs/NPs are told to make the patients happy, and this means give them what they want.
You can thank Obama and his Affordable Care Act for that.
Many MDs/PAs/NPs are told to make the patients happy, and this means give them what they want.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 12:53 am to Titus Pullo
Pharmacists do not collect SSN as part of the LA PMP, do they?
Posted on 10/7/16 at 12:56 am to Sao
Don't know about LA, but they do in AL. Granted you just tell them and they key it in so you could lie about it I guess.
Read the article he linked, or the first article from the Google search he linked and it discussed a similar type DB in LA.
Edit. I think most states have them, they're just not connected nationally...yet.
Read the article he linked, or the first article from the Google search he linked and it discussed a similar type DB in LA.
Edit. I think most states have them, they're just not connected nationally...yet.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 12:57 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 1:50 am to Jim Rockford
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Louisiana has more opiod prescriptions than people
Probably because they moved hydrocodone to schedule dos and you have to get a new script every fricking month.
I understand the reaction to shut down pill mills but the pendulum has begun to swing too far in the other direction.
And to the person that got 3 schedule 2 prescriptions in 1 visit to the Dr for a plantars wart: I'm calling Bull fricking shite.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 1:53 am
Posted on 10/7/16 at 1:53 am to Jim Rockford
I figured it would be higher than that
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:00 am to Jim Rockford
Docs in BR are known to hand out Oxy's like they're candy. Every week you see in the news some homeless person has died from an overdose. Truly sad.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:04 am to Breauxsif
And then there are benzos.
My issues with xanax addiction have been legendary.
Even forget at times they're in the avatar I took.
My issues with xanax addiction have been legendary.
Even forget at times they're in the avatar I took.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:09 am to SEClint
A lot of people play the Mesothilioma card. Oxy's are basically Heroin, not to mention Xani bars, I think anyone with a pulse can obtain them.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:17 am to Jim Rockford
Is this continual/concurrent prescriptions?
Or if I had dental work done in January and shoulder surgery in May/June is that counted as multiple prescriptions?
I take a schedule two prescription every day and that requires a new script every month... would that be considered 12 prescriptions?
Or if I had dental work done in January and shoulder surgery in May/June is that counted as multiple prescriptions?
I take a schedule two prescription every day and that requires a new script every month... would that be considered 12 prescriptions?
Posted on 10/7/16 at 5:11 am to Titus Pullo
I had a Total Knee Replacement November 9th.Doing great.
I see a Pain Management Doctor bi-monthly.
I take Norco(Hydrocodone)10 mg,4 times a day if I need it.
My 1st appointment they had my last 2 years prescription files printed out.The Lady knew the answers to the questions she was asking.I figured that out after a minute or two.
The way things are now,at least in AL,the Pharmacy is the one that tells me when I can get something filled.
At the time of my Surgery I was taking 60 mg of MSContin ER and 4 mg of Dilaudid x 4 a day.
It was very hard to come off that.
I see a Pain Management Doctor bi-monthly.
I take Norco(Hydrocodone)10 mg,4 times a day if I need it.
My 1st appointment they had my last 2 years prescription files printed out.The Lady knew the answers to the questions she was asking.I figured that out after a minute or two.
The way things are now,at least in AL,the Pharmacy is the one that tells me when I can get something filled.
At the time of my Surgery I was taking 60 mg of MSContin ER and 4 mg of Dilaudid x 4 a day.
It was very hard to come off that.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 5:15 am
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