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Here they have things so regulated that when I had a kidney stone my doctor gave me painkillers and told me that he had to write the script a certain way but because of my psych meds he wanted me to take it less than he'd written for. It's crazy.
I've given norco for migraine relief for years. I can only have 2 triptans with my MAOI and neither works. So every so often I have a migraine that doesn't stop. I go through 30 every few years. I'm terrified that when I need it next they won't be able to give it to me. I wish they could figure out this opoid crisis and calm down about things that aren't even addictive. and they need to figure out where to stop; people crush and snort Seroquel....
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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The regulations are so tough. Not just for pdocs, but dentists too. Used to if I went in needing major dental work, the dentist would prescribe you hydrcodone. Now, I don’t know, you may need horrid root canals, not just a painful crown or tooth pulling to be to maybe get Tylenol 3, if you cannot take NSAIDS.
When I left the hospital after ulcer surgery (this is a 4-5 inch incision belly button up with staples), the hospital gave me 10 pills of Norco. This for what is one of the worst, most painful surgeries out there. When I called the hospital wanting more pain medication, they gave me tramadol or said I could drive there (45 minutes each way, too much pain for that and get a written script for 5 more pills). The tramadol didn’t work at all, so I just didn’t take it. Around 5 days later or so, I went to the trauma surgeons’ place to get the staples removed, and the surgeon removing the staples couldn’t believe they had given me so little in the way of pain medication for such a traumatic surgery. He gave me a prescription for more Norco. Same thing when the G.I. doc heard what the hospital sent me away with for pain but I was OK for meds, having gotten the script from the surgeon. But he told me to call if I needed more pain medication. I didn’t end up needing more. Things finally turned around. The doctors weren’t doling it out like that because I was addicted; it was because this was a very big, extremely painful surgery. I mean, they are shooting you up with morphine, extra morphine shots, Norco, everything under the sun in the hospital, and then they send you home with next to nothing for the pain.
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I was on Klonopin when I was first diagnosed with BP. My experience with the drug was far from pleasant. However it did help me sleep at night because it made me so drowsy. I wish you good luck in keeping on in lowering the dose. Hopefully your body and mind will get used to the new dosage.
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