My Dr Took My Bottle Of Pills From Me And Wrote A Prescription For Another Pain Med (Page 4)

I saw my Dr. yesterday and called him because I was still in pain. He told me to come back and to bring the bottle of medication with me. He took the bottle of pain pills that I had paid for and wrote me a script for a different medication. Can a Dr. actually take someone's pills away from them like that?

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Re: Wired68 (# 12)

Yes, under the eyes of the patient and another witness!!!!
And yes they can write u one if it’s not working and you would return it to the pharmacy!!!! Not the doc. The doc can count the meds and relay that’s what you would be returning to pharmacy. But it should be 75% if script. Because why would you keep using if it wasn’t working. Otherwise that’s considered drug seeking behavior!!

But doctors abuse too!!!

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Re: Wired (# 14)

Exactly. She should have had a witness. That was not clear. Whether doctor counted remaining pills, whether there was witness.
Or If Doc was taking for his own self.
Then the pharmacy had proof the script was destroyed!!
But If half the script was used then that’s just pull shopping.

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Re: terriba (# 2)
my cousins doctor did the very same thing I would of went off! He put them In the sharps container I was like it's not like he cant open it after you left and get them out!

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Re: DrJoeyMDPhD (# 20)

Where did you study for your degrees to become a Doctor/ MDPhD? Because wherever you went literally just took your money and Lord help the patients that you did diagnosis of any kind during your Residency? because I can not fully understand what you meant?eg: " a bite"? I have my degree in Nursing ( Bachelor of Science ) and I would never get on a forum of any topic especially medication and attempt to help someone or even suggest anything. Yes if you really do have a Degree in Medicine please let everyone know what State you are in so they can stay away from your practice.

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Re: terriba (# 2)

That seems almost like him stealing your meds. I mean they are yours, you paid for them. I would've been pissed.

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Here is your POSSIBLE options. Take the new script and give up the remaining medication from the previous prescription OR refuse to give up the previous medication to get a new script and just keep the old medication and use it up and THEN get a new script for a different medication. I had something similar happen to me a few years back. The pharmacy or Doctor wrote a script for the wrong miligrams size and rewrote the script and I filled it. The Pharmacy asked for the old script back but I refused as I had paid for it. i offered to return it if they paid me for the unused pills but they refused so I kept it. Keep in mind this was before all of the drama we now go through.

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Re: terriba (# 2)

Dang, maybe he's doing this to keep them for himself.

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In a word "No" He shouldn't have taken them.

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Re: rosa211 (# 4)

If they want your meds they are not your friends

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Re: David (# 1)

You got bad advice here. If doctor changes a script in the middle of the prescription period, he is totally within his rights to require you to surrender the previous pills. He can count them and know that you were compliant with that script, and he hasn't allowed you to take both scripts. This is common in pain management. You gave him permission to take your previous meds when you surrendered them. This is good medical practice.

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No, that is crazy. If u paid for it u keep them in case in the future u need them . But he did that to probably not to be taken by someone else or for his use. These new young doctor aren't so innocent. If he old doctor then he got some issues taking it to discard them him self.

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