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Old Apr 23, 2018, 10:58 AM
SparkySmart SparkySmart is offline
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I've wondered about this, too. I've taken Ambien 10 mg for years. This is a Schedule IV drug, which has a low potential for abuse but is "subjected to a limit of a thirty day supply per dispense." Only once did a pharmacy allow me to pick up a refill two days before the stipulated date, and that was because the refill date fell on a Sunday (my pharmacy isn't open on Sundays).

But what really confuses me is this: My PCP (whom I've been seeing for 20 years) told me that he couldn't prescribe more than one 10 mg pill per day...that he was prohibited from doing so by law. But this last Christmas season, I was under a lot of stress and doubled the dose to 20 mg for a total of eight days; therefore, I was short for the month by 8 pills. Whoops. When I saw my PCP in January, I asked him for a prescription for eight 10 mg Ambien tablets, and he called it in without a problem. This 8-pill addition didn't interfere with, or change the date of, my next (or subsequent) refill(s).

Other people on PC have mentioned that they were taking higher doses of Ambien (I think there's a slow-release version or something), but this makes me wonder if my PCP is telling me the truth.
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