Filling An Rx For Percocet, Same Dr. Prescribing (Top voted first)

I was issued 2 scripts from the same Dr. For 10mg/325 Oxycodone. Due to Surgery last week total Hip Replacement! I know I will have to pay out of pocket cause my insurance just filled at beginning of the month. He gave me 2 due to tolerance & going through PHYSICAL THERAPY 2 to 3 times a week! Why won't a pharmacy fill this for me if I am getting them from the same Dr?

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Your doctor should know that if the 2nd Rx. isn't different than your original Rx. it will not be filled. Every chronic pain patient who goes in for surgery knows the Pharmacy will refuse to fill it. Even if the Rx is lower, they can refuse to fill.

I used to have problems filling Rx's because of the cashier at drop off, not being able to count to 28. I finally flipped out (on the inside) because my Rx's are written for a 28 day supply, not 30, and called Corporate. I asked what makes this cashier qualified to decide if I can get my meds, blah, blah.

She never gave me a problem after that. I pointed out, to corporate, how she refused to converse with the Pharmacist, who never saw my Rx, as it was refused by an unexperienced cashier.

Unfortunately we need to fight for our rights. And you shouldn't have to pay out of pocket. Your doctor says you need it, he can write it so insurance will pay for it.

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Just have the doctor contact the pharmacist and explain the need for the two prescriptions.

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The pharmacy already told me that NO PHARMACY WOULD BE ABLE TO FILL the rx unless it was for a different strength!!! This pharmacy is so strict I started filling there a few years ago due to having to go to so many different pharmacies and they didn't have any left! They are now making me wait 30 days rather than every 28 days as I have been doi g for years!!! I think it's all about the POWER TRIP THE PHARMACIST GETS WITH CONTROLE!

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I had the same thing happen to me after having my 1st of several major surgeries. I couldn't believe it because I was suffering in severe pain so badly & crying. I tried to have it filled at 2 other pharmacys & both said they didn't have any left & to come back in a month for it !?! All this while I wasn't supposed to be out of bed, took me over an hr to get in & out of my car, I was a complete mess. My boyfriend had to leave his job & help me with this situation, he ended up calling other pharmacys where we live to see if they could fill it. This BS went on all day, I finally got a call back from my surgeon, he had to call the pharmacist directly & for a stronger/different pain medication. This started at 6:30 am, I finally had my Rx filled @8:00 pm. Don't blame the pharmacists, it's the FDA's fault. The have Dr's & pharmacists scared to fill any schedule meds these days with the threat of taking their licenses away since the reformulation of the schedule meds. My dad was a pharmacist & owned his pharmacy before he passed away. I worked for him 12 yrs & know what I'm taking about. Although it's against the law & patients rights to suffer, the FDA doesn't care.

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I work in a pharmacy and we would not fill them both for you on the same day since it's for the same strength. Did your dr put the same date on both the scripts or did he post date one? Cuz it doesn't make sense that he would give you 2 different scripts with the same dose and date instead of just putting it in one script. At my pharmacy you have to use 90% of the med before you could fill the other script the dr gave you unless the written date on it is over 30 days cuz it expires in my state after that. And it's not the pharmacist fault they r so strict it's cuz so many people r overdosing on C2 opioids that they r coming down hard on doctors and pharmacies! Pretty soon if someone has a limb amputated they will say sorry all we can give you is tylenol

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Actually, the blame lies with an overgrown federal government seeking to regulate every aspect of our private lives - and for much of the past 100+ years this has included what kind of pills adults may wish to put into their own mouths and precisely how many they may take per day, with no exceptions, ever! Or else they threaten to lock you in a concrete/metal cage with violent criminals for several years. Their euphemism for this is "incarceration" and it's done every day to U.S. citizens who have never committed a violent crime in their entire lives.

Yet for the first 120 or so years of American history there were absolutely NO federal drug laws of any kind, no DEA and no one put in prison for purchasing the drugs of their choice. Were there any drugs? Oh yes, there were plenty of drugs, certainly not all the drugs available today. But in the 19th century there was opium, morphine, coke and marijuana to name a few. And adults could actually purchase many of these in whatever quantity they desired (and could pay for) from their Sears catalog, or their local pharmacy or even a general store, subject only to availability. People were free to follow the recommendations of their family doctor - and a doctor's prescription was just that, a recommendation. Or you could choose to educate yourself about medicine and the human body by reading (or not) and then decide for yourself. Now prescriptions have morphed into legal permits to obtain X amount of a specific drug, and deciding such matters for yourself is considered a very serious crime! It didn't even occur to 19th century politicians that the state could regulate what a man puts in his mouth, and they could see that drugs are not even mentioned in the Constitution (a point to which most of our modern politicians have become blind, deaf and dumb). To prohibit alcohol in the 1920's the politicians of that age at least had the decency to first amend the U.S. Constitution, before embarking on such an odd deviation from American traditions.

So was America in the 19th century a horrible disaster due to drugs? There were disasters to be sure, both natural and man-made. But drugs and alcohol were then available to help soothe the pain of those crushed. While many swear that it's far different from "drugs", alcohol (ethanol) is in fact just another drug, but one that is mentioned in the Bible, given in many Christian church ceremonies as a holy sacrament. and which happens to go well with food. However, some would say that it's one of the most harmful drugs of all when consistently used in excess.

During this free-wheeling time, the country as a whole grew, progressed and invented the future like no other nation on earth and soon became the wealthiest and strongest society in the world - all of this while drugs were easily available and completely legal. One might suspect that we've been tricked, and we have been.

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Re: Patty (# 11)

Those are the jerks who have ruined it for people with legitimate pain!!

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Re: rammsteinfan (# 9)

Omg you poor thing!!!!! I hate that it's come down to patients rights being violated by the FDA!! To have surgery without proper pain meds.... so sorry!! I'm a nurse, what I've seen & then have gone through, having so many major surgeries myself, I've never seen so many people unethically punished by not receiving proper meds! I bet the FDA members never suffer after surgery!

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Wow that's terrible! I'm so sorry they are putting you through this. I'm sure you've already tried this, but have you explained the situation to your Dr and asked him to possibly re-write the RX? I'll be wishing you luck in getting this resolved!

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@Tammy...I'm confused as to why your doctor didn't just double the amount & write it on 1 prescription??
Did Dr. mean for the 2nd one to be like a refill & after the 1st one was gone??
If not, Dr. would need to write the 2nd one for a different strength.

Pharmacies are getting REALLY bad about refilling scripts & I have 1 pharmacist @ the CVS here who almost refuses to fill my pain med more than 1 day early; even though according to their app it can be filled 2 days early.

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Re: Paul (# 13)

Sorry to say but even if she were to pay cash, the pharmacy still will not be able to fill them both for her on the same day it would be illegal for them to do so if it's for the same exact med and strength. In this case the only thing she can do is fill the one script then fill the other one on the day the pharmacy allows it, some pharmacies allow them to be filled after 80% is gone and other pharmacies it may be 90%. Either way, if she is using the med as directed, she will have enough to last until the next fill and she won't be w/o the medication, she will just have to go back to get it filled. Even if the dr calls and/or writes a new script for a lower strength or for less pills, the pharmacy still might tell her she has to wait until the previous med has been used up to a certain amount before the other can be filled since she should still have a certain amount of pills left from the previous fill.

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Re: Kimber (# 15)

I agree! So many people r overdosing from abusing them and now the government is lumping us all into the same group and making it unfair for the people that use this kind of med properly and for legitimate reasons. It really scares me cuz I can't function or get out of bed until my med starts working and if the government has their way, no one will be able to get their meds anymore. I feel that it should be between the dr and patient and if people need these meds they should have a drug contract, only go to one dr to get the meds, only use one pharmacy to fill them each and every time, and the pharmacies should DOPL all the people on these meds to be sure that they r following all these things. But don't punish the people that need them and use them the way they r suppose to

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Re: Maria (# 16)

Nobody's answering my question~

WHY WOULD a DOCTOR write 2 PRESCRIPTIONS for the SAME EXACT MED.!!???

If he KNEW that TAMMY was going to need MORE MEDS; shouldn't he have written ONE RX for the SAME AMOUNT as the TWO!!?? And then CHANGE the INSTRUCTIONS so it would REFLECT the EXTRA AMOUNT.

Did I misread TAMMY'S ORIGINAL comment/question!!???
SO CONFUSED!

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Re: SheriAmore (# 19)

That's why I was wondering if the dr post dated the script or meant to and didn't. Doctors can give a person 3 different scripts for the same med, dosage, and quantity if they post date them. For example, they give you one that you can get filled today, and then the 2nd is post dated for 10-16 and the 3rd for 11-13. Tammy did not say in her post if that is what the dr did or not cuz it wouldn't make any sense for the dr to give her two different scripts for the same med, dose, and quantity with the same fill date. Any dr should know that pharmacies won't fill them both for her on the same day.

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Re: ED (# 31)
Sheri, have you ever tried Kratom for pain? I was a Chronic Pain patient for 18 years. Ever Sense the FDA clamp down, I have used Kratom. Kills pain better than anything from a doctor. No side effects, no ADDICTION. No kidding.

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I've also taken Kratom on and off for well over a year now and never experienced any problems stopping it, nor any withdrawal symptoms or effects. I also know people who've taken it much longer than I have with no bad effects. I think people talking negatively about Kratom are either paid pharmaceutical reps or simply didn't receive a pure Kratom product. Truth is, it saves many lives and there are no "official" reported deaths from Kratom (in and of itself) over thousands of years of use - much like marijuana in that sense. The nay-sayers should stop spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) on things they know nothing about.

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Re: Kristyne (# 43)

Post dating is LEGAL, the dr can give patients 3 scripts at the same time as long as they are post dated. Some pharmacies will hold the post dated ones and put them on your file and some pharmacies, like the one I work at, will tell the patient to hold onto them and bring back on the date that says when they can fill it.

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Re: LAK (# 5)

I agree, this BS the FDA and big gov is pushing is making it very hard for those of us with chronic pain. Thanks to the pillbillies and junkies we have to suffer. My doctor is now prescribing me 800mg Motrin after a major surgery for ankle replacement. I am in agony yet he refuses to give me any thing stronger. What do we do, who is there to help us. Any suggestions?

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Re: LAK (# 5)

I wouldn't blame the FDA either. The blame lies in those who se their pain meds or abuse them!

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Re: Patty (# 11)

Hey Patty,
If you ever have 9 major surgeries without pain meds, more power to you. I couldn't take the pain, keep your junkie opinions to yourself until you go through what reality of pain is!

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