Re:Cronic pain/real nightmares. So my regular pain management Dr snowed in, in Kansas. Plus can’t see him till next Mon anyhow. So his nurse says says call local emergency room to
Obtain small amount of pain meds. Of course they say no way. So now I’m stuck with no pain pills for a week. I’m left wondering why people in pain are treated like criminals and with no compassion???
To quote a couple of readers recently on just such a hypothetical situation …
“…It will never happen…” and “.. Better pray that it doesn’t happen ..”
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What comes to my mind right away is why doesn’t the clinic nurse or the snowed in prescriber himself call the local ER, explain the problem, and ask that they please cover their patient with enough medication to get through until they can reasonably see the patient in clinic? If the professionals would handle the communication there would be much less of a problem. Its when they try to turf-off the communication to the patient that the trouble starts. If they would take just 5 more minutes to see everything through to the end so much trouble would be saved for all I believe.
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Why is the world so scared that people with pain have a few days extra of medication? What difference except to the patient would that make? So many E.R. visits avoided, less panic for snow or car problems and of course the plans for the pharmacy that lies about being out. And who has never dropped a pill? Sometimes common sense is the first to go.
Same deal with Snowmageddon.
When I was working retail on a regular basis and we knew there was a huge snowstorm coming in, we ususally filled the pain meds if it was the week of the time to fill.. We know the insurance would fill once 75% of the prescription was considered utiltilzed by the patient and they would open up the fill date. Our town is surrounded by sever rural counties and snowstorms epecially with blowing and drifting usually cause travel restrctions in the counties. I would say 99% of the patients we filled with the 5-7 days early fills were not problems and better safe than sorry. We never encountered any issues with the DEA or anyone else on the matter. I live in Indiana, Just and FYI….Im not talking about filling 2 WEEKS early. We always checked the PMP and were able to make notes in the computer on why there was an early fill for the last time.