I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am addicted to pain meds. I am currently in treatment for my addiction. It started out as legitimate pain a quickly escaladed into full-blown addiction.
Anyways... I called my dentist yesterday because I believe that I have a cavitiy. (No I promise I wasn't looking for meds) anyhow I gave the receptionist my name and she asked me to please hold. She came back and said "sorry we do not have any appointments today" I said thats okay its not an emergency could I please have an appointment for another day? She then proceeded to tell me that the pharmacy sent a letter out saying that I had received too many narcotic prescriptions" She was nice about it and said that "if I had any questions please contact my pharmacy" It really freaked me out since I did let it get out of control for a little while and now I am finally clean. Should I worry that I am just waiting for the police to arrest me? Or should I just let it be a serious wakeup call? Thanks so much!
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froggie638
21 April 2010
When I first started taking pain pills I was not doctor shopping. However as time went by I started needing more and more pills. It really got worse when I was diagnosed with endometriosis. I had a procedure done one week and then the following week I had to have my wisdom teeth removed. 2 painful procedures within two weeks! I know this sounds crazy but I did not know that I was doctor shopping since I had 2 legitimate procedures done. The problem was once I was healed I felt like I still needed the medication. So I slowly began seeing my doctors a lot more than usual getting small scripts for vicodins here and there. I never got anything stronger than 5mg percocet. I only got that script once a month. I would get 500 mg vicodin from my other doctors. I had been having a lot of trouble in my marriage (honestly not related to the pill use) and I began to self medicate because I was so down.
I finally decided that I had enough and began treatment and counseling to help me get through everything. My toothache feels better! I took otc motrin for the pain! I can't believe I was able to do that! LOL The dentist would not allow me to schedule an appointment to even look at the tooth. I was so upset and embarrassed that I haven't called the pharmacy or my doctors to find out what was going on. I would love to call them and tell them I am sorry and to let them know I am clean and working a program. I am scared of the rejection. Thank you for listening and I would love any advice that you could pass my way! Thanks!
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chris65
4 April 2012
I applaud you for being in recovery to be honest it seems unprofessional for your dentist not to treat you for your cavity when you were not seeking medication.If I were in your situation I would talk to both the pharm and doctor and explain YOUR OWN personal situation so your not labeled drug seeking so forth.
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fall queen
20 April 2010
Are you being "red flagged" fpr legitamate presriptions or did you bring one in that you wrote or called in yourself. I have prescriptions eveywhere from several doctors as my p/m is one hour and 1/2 away from where I live so if I can't get in to see my PC I just go to a walk-in. Just go to a different Pharmacy next time. Glad to hear you are clean I guess My situation is different. God Bless Fall Queen
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walkingfreedoctor
30 July 2013
Now it Seems that EVERY Pharmacy is linked w a data base in wisconsin. I have severe pain from being run over on my cycle 3 different times! i sued & won in each case It left me very disabled. The MOST ANY doctor WILL Prescribe in Wisc is 120, 30 mg tabs a month since last year? They were being threatened to "Loose their licences" or WORSE. So they all across the board would only prescribe 120 Ir;s ans supplement long lasting meds like Oxycontin 40mg times 60--which STILL equals 300 ir's..but now --as of this week, THE Pharmacy's seem to have all BEEN "LINKED so if you had an insurance Doctor and a cash one--you were all good, until now..EVEN the lil mom & Pop ones are linked as well??WTF? When & HOW did this happen?
so are we ALL waiting to be arrested for being BROKEN? Iwork in the Medical Field & have seen horrific things like this coming to pass, but now even my self w Doctor friends and care givers who KNOW how DIRE my situation is, can not do a thing to help... What is going on in American Medicine!! THe Doctors are the ones who GOT me UP to this level in the 1st place!~ Just to cut me, and now the Pharms are linked as well... God..Today i seen 30 ppl get cut across the board and in milwaukee ppl were robbing others in broad day light!~ Are we trying to fill prisons up again?/
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christineATU
20 April 2010
Happy to hear you are on the straight and narrow. I was just wondering, will the dentist fix your tooth? If it's a simple cavity, most OTC pain meds will help. You may not need them at all. Did they deny you even making the appointment?
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millmo
20 April 2010
Dear Froggie - I can totally relate to your story and have also been in a similar situation... mine did end up with me being arrested. From what I can understand or probably guess from your statement is that you may have been "doctor shopping" and having multiple scripts for narcotics filled at the same pharmacy??? That's not illegal... it simply implies that you have the disease of addiction, like myself. The best thing you could've done, you already did... you should be really proud of yourself! You recognized a problem was developing and you sought for help. I hope and pray you stay on the straight and narrow... God bless. If there is more to the story - please let me know and maybe I can provide some additional information.
