May 17, 2008 - 7:19pm
Last month I saw my pain doc and he wrote me an Rx for the Fentanyl Patches. His practice closed down on April 28th b/c he is dying from Liver cancer. He also wrote me a 2nd Rx for the patches to be filled May 21st (4 weeks from the last Rx.) He did this to hold me over until I can find a new doc. Anyway, when I got the first Rx filled, the pharmacist told me that the way he wrote the Rx and my insurance, it only covers me for 25 days, not 30. So here is my dilema......Tomorrow (Sunday) will be 25 days and my patches will be gone. I do have the other script but it is dated for May 21st (Wednesday) do you think if I explained all of this to my pharmacist, he will go ahead and fill it tomorrow instead of Wednesday? He cannot call the doc b/c the clinic is no longer. I hate to go 3 days w/o my patches. Any advise would be helpful!
Thanks,
KK
May 18, 2008 - 9:44am
#2
I also would seek out a
I also would seek out a doctor,explain your situation and see if he would at least give you enough until your new script is ready to be filled. I have never known anyone that has gotten a class2 script get filled early in 20 yrs.
May 18, 2008 - 2:04pm
#3
Well, went to the Pharmacy
Well, went to the Pharmacy this morning and they went ahead and filled the Rx, no questions asked. I was just waiting for the Pharmacist to ask questions but he never did.
Thanks for the replys!
KK
May 18, 2008 - 3:30pm
#4
refills
Yes, i find that quite strange that everyone says its against the law because my pharmacy is a "refill automatically" pharmacy and they fill mine up to 6 days early!!!
once the machine called and said it was ready for p/u and it was 8 days early, then a PERSON called back and said they couldnt refill it past a WEEK early.
May 19, 2008 - 1:47pm
#5
That stinks
Man that stinks. This is why I never wait until the very end from when my prescription would run out to solve the problem. Just be careful with that situation because chances are, being that there is such a problem with narcotics lately, ANYTHING is possible in terms of you not getting your needed medication. Good Luck with everything.
its cool that your doc would do that as far writing you a post dated script until you find somone. if you have found someone or have a general doctor you can go to you might want to try that. i had a post dated script for oxycontin a longtime ago that the pharmacist took because he said it was against state law for me to have the script.