Trouble at the Pharmacy filling new oxycodone script?

Listen... the pharmacist lied. There is no law. I'm familiar with this type of thing, I've gotten into a few argument with pharmacists, but it appears my pharmacists are way more generous then yours. Here's how it is: certain pharmacies, like Walgreens, have developed this rule that you need to fill your prescriptions every 30 - 31 days exactly. If you fill it earlier then that, then you're "early". The pharmacists near me allow like 5 days early, so it's usually not a problem. Oh, I just read you're additional details: that's how the appointments always are. They're always 2 - 3 days earlier then last month. If you see the doctor on wednesday, they'll book you 4 weeks later on a wednesday, do you follow? It'll always be a wednesday, so the appointment will always be 2 - 3 days early.

You did nothing wrong. But here's what you can do to avoid the situation entirely: go to a different pharmacy. If you didn't return to the same pharmacy, you wouldn't have had the problem. That pharmacy had a record of the sale on the 24th, so when you came back on the 22nd, their stupid bs computer system said, "how dare she come here 2 days early!". If you alternate pharmacies every month, you won't have that problem. However, you can also call the pharmacy and speak to a manager and tell them that you're going to start alternating pharmacies because their 2 day earlier policy is outrageous and unlawful. If anything, it's unlawful. The doctors book the appointments 2 days early so that you're not down to your last pill, and so that you can have extra in case something happens where you need to postpone your appointment.

Anyway... It sux that they're treating you like that. With every walgreens and CVS I've been to, if you filled on the 24th, they'll allow you to fill on the 19th of next month because they know how the doctors do the appointments. You should also know that the pharmacist can decide to fill it no matter how early it is. They know me, so they have no problem with filling the stuff 7 days early if I'm going on some sort of trip. It's NOT a law, it's a basic store-managed system. If you want to stick with that pharmacy, you can talk to a manger like I said above, or just file a complaint, or maybe there's a regional manger that you can contact. But, if you do file a complaint, you can confidently say that your pharmacy is NOT inline with the rest of the pharmacies in the country employing similar policies.

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Pharmacies That Fill Oxycodone

The problem is oxycodone is such an abused drug that pharmacist and doctors are very picky about using and dispensing it, it sucks for people like you that actually need it because now your life is made even more difficult. I'm not sure if this is ethical but my grandpa's doctor would prescribe him 2 months at a time by prescribing him to take double th eamount he actually needed and tellin my grandpa to cut the dos ein half, meaning if he was taking 2 80mg OxyCOntin pills a day, the doc would write a months supply for taking 4 tablets a day but it would actually last my grandpa 2 months because he only needed to take half that dose. He did this because it was difficult to get to a pharmacy every month because he lives in the middle of nowhere so only having to go to the doc and pharmacy once every two months worked a lot better

Good luck and sorry you have to deal with this.

There is a thing about covering your butt and following the rules but I admit that there seems to be times that some people go really anal about it. I know at times we have tried to refill early but they usually tell us at the time so we don't make a wasted trip. My dr. once wrote out a prescription for me for a three month fill and the pharmacy would only fill it a month at a time and how they filled it would have shorted me the last time. I had to see my dr. and I told him what they did and he promptly wrote a new one which he added a few extra onto it so I couldn't come up short. It may be worth a little chat with your dr. to see if he could up the number for you as it probably won't up your cost if you have insurance covering it for you.

no what the did was not against the law, but usually when they write 3 prescritions at once like thatm they date it to the day, like june 23, august 23, sept 23. so that you cant get your refills to soon. however it is up to you, to take your medicine as written. you knew this was a medication that was addictive, AND you knew tat you were taking it too soon and too much. becoming addicted is innocent enough on its own, even someone that doesnt abuse their medication, get a addicted and will feel horrible with drawls. it is now up to you to figure out what to do next, either find another pain dr, do NOT USE WORD lik SCRIPT, this is junkie lingo, language, that is a rted flag to a new dr, that you might be seeing.. you kind of screwed yourslf. ive been there. ihave peripheral neuropathy, also very painful. nerve damage in my arms legs hands and feet, from kidney disease. at some point you have to decide which is worse, your pain, or your addiction, if you aaddiction is worse, then you cant take meds like this respondsibly. you can go to a methadone clinic. people think methadone was created to get haerion addicts off of herion, but it wasnt, it was created during world war 1 or 2 because they ran out of morphine to treat the war casulaties with, men that had been hurt and miamed from fighting. its agreat lomg lasting pain reliever. but is also addicting, but yet its different, you will have read about it. then in the 1970s when all the vietnam vets started cmoming back from fighting, many of them were addicted to morphine, herion, and opium, they dound that methdone, treated the craving from those drugs, so the vet could go back to living his life, whith out feeling the withdrwl, and constatnly looking for his next high. BUT the withdrawls are WAY worse from methadone, you have to do it slowly, and that what they will do at a methadone clinic, or you can stay on what ever dose they give you for ever, and not titrated down, methadone is the best pain reief i have had ever, but you cant tell the clininc youare there for pain relief, you have to tell them that you abuse oxycodone, because your an addict, dont mention pain or they wont take you. the other thing is suboxone, it treatspain, too but what its really for is getting people off of drugs like opiates. well good luck, IF you are fortunante enough to find another doctor to treat you, DO NOT ABUSE YOUR MEDICATION!. hope this info helped you.

And in fact it is the rule. I have never heard of the "seven day rule" Oxycontin is a power full drug, you have to watch it. The pharmacist can get into a load of trouble if he/she starts filling scripts early. He/she can have their license challenged. The FDA is on the rampage due to school kids getting high on drugs for pain. You have to learn to regulate yourself. If your traveling and won't be back in time, explain this to the doctor and he/she can maybe order extra for you.

Oxy is a very regulated drug. It can be highly habit forming and it raises a lot of eyebrows when you try to fill it early. The laws have recently changed making the regulation of the drug even tighter. While I don't agree with the way they treated you at the counter, I can understand their concern. They face some pretty serious consequences if they don't comply. Yes it is frustrating and can be inconvenient, but it is the law. It is just a few people ruining it for the rest of us.