2 Different Questions Concerning Oxycodone And Vicodin
UpdatedQuestion 1: I had been going to the SAME Dr. for OVER 14 years. I NEVER ONCE failed a drug test as long as I have been going to him. He retired a few months ago and a different Dr. took his place. The new Dr. told me he WILL give me the SAME medications and treatments that my old Dr. was giving me, BUT I HAVE to pass a drug test first. I said FINE WITH ME. The new Dr. gave me my drug test, did the test right infront of me, once the results came up, he told me my test is FINE, here are my pills, and he gave me the injections. He told me to schedule an appt to come back the following month as I have been doing with my former doctor. 5 days BEFORE my NEXT appt, I received a letter from them telling me I am NOT permitted to come back, I FAILED a drug test and tested positive for heroin, cocaine, and had visible "trackmarks" all over my arms. I was physically removed from the office by security since I DEMANDED LARGE amounts of narcotics, and I am NOT permitted to come back. I called his office FLIPPING OUT saying HOW can my test be FINE when I was at the office and he GAVE ME my pills and injections, but NOW it is "dirty" and I CANT come back? He wouldnt discuss anything with me. He just hung up on me and refused to accept my calls after that. I had a friend of mine who works for a different doctor get my records since they refused to release them to me. She told them she needed my records since I am going to be a new patient at the doctor she works for. This doctor's "staff" NEVER asked the name of the doctor, NOTHING, they just gave her my records with NO problems. Well, the new Dr. had "his notes" as the FIRST page of my records. It CLEARLY stated: I PASSED a drug test, I show NO SIGNS of drug seeking behavior, I AM welcome to come back to him for follow up appts each month. Well, I reported him to the medical board. I sent them a copy of the letter he sent me saying I FAILED a drug test because I tested positive for heroin, cocaine and had visible trackmarks. I was physically removed from the office by security for demanding large amounts of narcotics, AND I ALSO enclosed HIS "notes" where he said I PASSED the test, I show NO drug seeking signs and I AM welcome back. The medical board investigated and said the doctor did NOTHING WRONG, I AM AN ADDICT, so now I am "RED FLAGGED" from going to ANY DOCTOR to be treated. HOW can I get this removed from my file so I CAN get the treatments I need? I am in constant pain and I NEED my injections.
Question 2: I DID find a Dr. who IS willing to see me despite this QUACK who stated I AM A HEROIN AND COCAINE ADDICT. The new doctor I am seeing told me that when I go back to see him on the 12th, he WILL give me injections, once he discusses it with my insurance. (I have NO CLUE what my insurance has to do with weather I get shots or not) Anyhow, he told me he WILL give me a perscription, but he will NOT give me the roxicodone 15mg that I WAS taking. The new Dr. told me he was calling my meds in now and I can stop at the pharmacy to get them on the way home. When I stopped to pick them up, he prescribed me vicodin 7.5. This is EXACTLY what the directions on the bottle say: Take 1 tablet 3 times daily by mouth, Plus 10 extra every 72 hours as needed. SO, EVERY 72 hours, I am SUPPOSED to take 13 vicodin? Wouldnt that KILL ME or cause me to OD? I called his office and questioned this. I told the girl I spoke to that I picked up the prescription he gave me. It says take 1 tablet 3 times daily by mouth, plus 10 extra every 72 hours as needed. IS that a mis-print? I CANT take 13 vicodin every 72 hours. I would be OD'ing or Dying. She FLIPPED OUT on me and told me IF I DONT DO AS THE PRESCRIPTION STATES, THEN DONT COME BACK. Needless to say, I am NOT taking 13 every 72 hours. Vicodin makes me nauseous to begin with and does NOTHING for the pain, but I just wanted to know IF 13 pills in a day (every 72 hours) would harm me or kill me?
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I realize this is an old question but I just had to respond because your story breaks my heart. The only reason I can think of as to why a doctor's office would be so shady with you is if someone there had some kind of grudge against you or they got you mixed up with someone else and didn’t want to face their mistake so decided to make you pay for it instead. Hopefully you’ve been able to find another, more sympathetic doctor and your previous doctor has karma bite him in the ass. I’m willing to bet you’re probably not the only patient he’s screwed over through no fault of theirs either due to pure unprofessional mean-spiritedness or human error mixed with faulty pride. In my opinion that entire operation should be shut down or at least be put through a serious overhaul. Sharing your private medical information without requiring proper ID and a signed statement from you as well as refusing to give you your own medical information are both things they should have been taken to task for by the medical board. In fact them not wanting you to see or have access to your records raises a huge red flag; almost as though they knew it would contradict what they said and prove they were in the wrong and were trying to hide something! It really chafes my hide when the board protects doctors like these over people who are in serious pain with nowhere else to turn! As for unred-flagging yourself, I can only say keep trying to find a good doctor who understands your situation and once you’ve found them do all you can to stay on their good side and hopefully you won’t have to worry about that red flag. Though I think after a handful of years of ‘good patient behavior’ a drug-seeking red flag is removed from your records, but I’m not entirely sure of this!
As to your second question; I would have taken the bottle back to the pharmacy and asked for a consult and pointed out the obvious error. It could have been something as simple as them not being able to read your doctor’s handwriting, (clichéd, I know!), or, if typed, a silly typo. I’m guessing it was really meant to say “13 extra every 2 to 7 hours” but they switched around the 2 and the 7, (dyslexic doctor?), so it read 72, then forgot the space and the & between.
13 7.5s at once is harmful mostly due to all the acetaminophen you’d be ingesting. Your stomach would NOT have been happy! I doubt the narcotic properties of that many hydrocodone would’ve harmed someone who’d already been taking 15mgs oxycodone daily since you’d have had a larger tolerance to opiates than someone who’d never or hardly ever took a pain medication. In short; one person can be perfectly fine taking huge amounts of narcotics due to their tolerance whereas for someone else that same huge amount would spell OD City. But, it’s the acetaminophen that’d be the real culprit, though. Anyway, hopefully things have worked out for you since you posted here!
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