In a message dated 8/28/2007 1:42:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pharmacies only give certain ammounts of meds, determined by how often you are supposed to take the meds. If you are taking Valium 3 per day, when the prescription says 2 per day, you may be labeled a drug abuser. Get your doctor to write a new prescription!! I'm a bit surprised by your advice, Frank. While you are perfectly correct at advicing the writer to see the doctor for a new prescription, isn't it always prudent (with a drug such as Valium, with a high degree of addictive tendency) to advice a patient to maintain the prescribed amount the doctor wanted the patient to try for a while? Valium is highly addictive and the writer is obviously showing traits of an addictive/dependent personality. One can only keep advancing an addictive drug like Valium or opoids ( like I take) for so long. There are other break-through drugs for pain or problems with sleep, etc. At this stage and age, the writer has no business taking matters into their own hands. Any physician not knowing the past history of a patient has a difficult job. It takes time and testing by the doctor before he/she can trust a patient to take an addictive drug and must be especially watchful that the patient doesn't advance too quickly as to be safe on several counts. In almost every State, I'm not sure it is Federal law yet, but I know that doctors in Michigan are now penalized by monetary and/or jail terms for writing too many prescriptions for addictive drugs. This has led to patients like us, with CNS pain, difficult to treat, to having to sign legal papers between the patient and doctor regarding the usage of the prescribed drugs. I had to sign stating that I would only get my drugs filled at one singular pharmacy, providing address/phone # of the pharmacy and that I only take/use the drugs prescribed to me as they are ordered. I had to promise not to seek drugs from any other doctor, not to sell them, and several other things. We have at least ten years, more or less, to live and that means not using up the workings of any given medication. Believe me, I do not want to run out of the pain relieving quality I get from Fentanyl before I go. I have been on Valium for a few years and take it at night to help me get to sleep. I am prescribed .5 mg. and break them in half so that I do not become dependant too soon. It works for me; I hope the same thing works for others. I've gone through rehab "vacations" once and I don't want to have to go through that again...that's why I have the right to my nickels worth. Sorry for being so long. Please everybody, especially newbies, let's not get hooked on our pain relieving meds too soon or we will pay the price in the end. I love you all. Especially Mr. Phran3que. Jude "Our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great Glory that will last forever" 2 Corinthians 4:17 NLT ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour
