Refilling My Valid Xanax Prescription Early (Page 23)

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I only see one doctor and he gives me a 3 month supply of xanax. When I went the last time he wrote me out a prescription but I still had two refills. I had a friend and her husband passed away and I gave her some of mine thinking I would have no problem re-filling the prescription. I had sense enough not to go to the same pharmacy and not to give my insurance information. So I go to this small drug store by my house and I had to fill out paperwork such as dob, name and my DL #. Well they paged me to the front of the store and advised me that it was 7 days to early for them to re-fill. So my question is where can I go to re-fill a prescription that is valid written by the same doctor. I only tried one place, I'm guessing they must have a data base if you try and refill your prescription early (even without your insurance) does anyone have advice on where I can go to get this filled?

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#403 Pudman, Medicaid is welfare. Medicare is what everyone is entitled to @ 65 years of age because they path into it throughout their working years. If the person is on disability SSI then Medicare kicks in early. Medicaid which is welfare is a secondary insurance to help people. Now a days most doctors don't accept Medicaid.

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Hi #409 Pudman56, Don't take offense from anyone on an anonymous commentary board. If I don't like a particular comment I will be like.."SAY WHAT!!!" then if I choose to I clap back or keep it moving. It doesn't necessitate a breakdown of your income. Medicaid is welfare paid for by the employed tax dollars. That's a fact. Some people who are getting Medicaid have worked before and life circumstances have made it that they need to utilize Medicaid right now. That's a fact. Some people are cons and used the system. That's a fact. I don't think anyone was saying you were using the system. From what I read they were correcting your comment that Medicaid is not welfare because it is. They were also pointing out the various ways Medicaid & Medicare are funded. All in all we live in a great country that affords us so many different options of help.

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SayWhat, the most recent law in New Jersey dealing with opiates states a doctor can only give a prescription for 5 days of opiates for acute pain. If the pain is still severe enough to require pain medications on day 4, the doctor can write another prescription for 5 more days.

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SayWhat, I agree the medical community is now aware and has been for some time that the pharmaceutical companies lied. Unfortunately, some people want to put all of the blame on the doctors from the beginning. I also agree some money hungry doctors did not adjust their prescribing practices when the information came to light.

I posted another reply to you regardiing the new law in New Jersey for prescribing opiates to patients for Acute Pain. Doctor are limited to prescribing opiates for Acute Pain to 5 days. If the patient still requires an opiate on day 4, the doctor can write another prescription for 5 days. I believe I put a link in the message, so I guess it is under review.

#442. When someone receives SSI, they receive Medicaid, not Medicare. As you stated, there is not the 24 month waiting period for Medicaid like there is for Medicare when someone receives SSDI. When someone turns 65, they do not have to wait 24 months for Medicare.

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Sharing your xanax I learned the hard way.Wal-MART fills after 28 days.The computers know everything ,so changing pharmacies only counts against you.Her doc would have given her some if she really needed it. We can get through our hard times.My sister was brutally murdered,Everyone except me could handle it. But my natural brain chemistry is so used to xanax ,I was the worse one completly hysterical.I found her in her trunk all black.I would have been in a nut house if I wasnt so dependent on xanax and had plenty at the time .Share ? absolutly not.All other family members handled it like God intended.

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Xanax has been rescheduled from what to what? They are a schedule IV, along with other benzo's.

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Pudman that is true but the rules about dispensing controlled medicine has changed. Also pretty sure its a C3 in a State or two

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Not arguing, but aren't the schedules from the FDA? That would make them federal and so uniform throughout the country. I'm assuming the schedules are decided by the FDA, though.

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LOL...trust me, I know about the changes to Schedule II prescriptions. Every month I have to make a 2 hour (I don't drive) trip into the city to pick up a script from my doctor.

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The DEA decides the Drug Schedules. States cannot have a drug at a lower schedule that the DEA. But it can have it at a higher Schedule. For example, if a drug is a Schedule IV Federally, a State can make it a Schedule II. But no state can make it a Schedule V.

pudman56, a doctor can write up to three prescriptions for 30 days each of a Schedule II drug. It is up to each doctor to decide how often their patients come into the office and if they come in for an office visit or just to pick up a prescription. Most doctors want their patients to come in every 30 days for an office visit because if they don't the doctor is not paid as much.

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Refill 3 days early is OK but not 7 days unless it is mail delivery.

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BL, i thought I read a couple Southern states have stricter regulations regarding the dispensing of this medicine. The Federal Schedule always will stay the same. Also different states have limits, in California for example I am only allowed a refill of 500 Soma during a 6 month period.

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I call my doctor and tell him I need the prescription. It is waiting for me when I go to the office. No charge. You don't need an office visit to get a prescription, well, not when you have a long standing relationship with your doctor. I've been seeing him for probably around 10 years. I rarely get a prescription during one of my visits every 3 months. If your doctor requires you to schedule an office visit, you're the one being ripped off. It is neither necessary nor is it illegal to have the doctor write the prescription without a visit.

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I was talking about Vicodin. If you're talking about Xanax, I just get 6 refills with every prescription and get them refilled 2-3 days early. I don't know if anyone recalls the Karen Ann Quinlan case back in the 70's. She accidentally overdosed and when into a permanent coma from valium and alcohol. I guess I was lucky. Anyway, that's when they changed the law on benzo's that you could get no more than 6 months worth at a time. I don't know what good it did. It doesn't take 6 months to OD.

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EDDY , I don't know of any southern states off hand that have these drugs at a higher class than they are federally. If someone has Medicaid, the rules are usually stricter.

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BL, yes! I read that and first thought was, "What are some of the people on this commentary board. Who lives in NJ going to"
This new policy was put in place because opioids related deaths has continued to be on an incline. BL, I believe that they want the doctors to start with the least restrictive methods for pain management first. And if a patient is on opioids due to surgery, by week two depending on the type of surgery. They should be tapering the dose down, not up. If it's a cancer patient the rules are completely different. For chronic pain suffers, it's a little more complicated and problematic. They don't want the patients to be on these opioids for years with astronomical dosage and quantities. They feel that if the doctor has to keep increasing the dosage pass the therapeutic range, the drug is not working and the medication should be discontinued.
BL, the most accurate accommodation things that I've found out is that, if the doctor have you on a doage that is within the safe range, and you tell the doctor that it is working for you. Most doctors are willing to keep prescribing it for as long as you need it. And, you stay within that safe zone. This goes for Xanax also. But whenever you walk into a doctor's office every month talking it's not working, it's not working and want the doctors to keep increasing the dose higher and higher then that's a problem.

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BL, I wasn't speaking about a higher class but a different way of controlling them dictated by the State. For that matter the State laws differ between Arizona & my State California.

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SayWhat, most doctors no longer prescribe opiates and benzos together. That does not mean if a patient has a problem with anxiety and their pain doctor prescribes the opiates that a PCP or psychiatrist won't prescribe benzos.

I agree about patients complaining opiates are not working and wanting doctors to constantly increase the dosages. Most doctors are not going to continue to do this, after a point. Patients also need to keep in mind if they tell their doctor the opiates aren't working, their doctor may think there is no need to continue prescribing them.. Especially if they are not going to increase the dosage.

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My doctor passed away after my last visit. He wrote refills on my prescription. Can i get it filled on the due date?

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Yes your doctor might now be dead but any refills on controlled medicine is still good for 6 months and 12 months for non controlled prescription medications

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