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I have a Kentucky Licenses and went to a pain clinic in GA, they prescribed me Oxycodone 15mg and Hydrocodone 10mg. I have been to several pharmacies in Kentucky and cannot get them filled. Does anyone know where I can get my prescriptions filled rather here in Kentucky or out of state in GA or TN?? Please Help at all if possible, thanks!

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so true !! I was thinking the same thing! i wished a herniated disk on some pharm tech after he was done talking down to me. F'n a hole!

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I posted a lengthy response to 'Inside' and, yes, I agree he/she will probably not be back again to 'defend' his/her views. In the meantime, I have extensively read all posts and entries created here - to all pain survivors, and, I do intend to call us survivors because living in pain 24/7 while maintaining (or trying to maintain) a normal life is brave, enduring, and difficult for us to even believe at times. But, yet, we endure.

First, a thank you to people in the pharmacutical industry for providing me with some references on reading I should look into - whether it be for a lawsuit/info on a manufacturer, important information on drugstore-chains, or simply to give whatever advice/information one may have which, can provide insight for me when filling future prescriptions - cop-outs one may give, making certain my doctor is approved, etc. I, personally, think it is great advice to keep me safe (having copies/proving my singular prescription history from my insurance co., any doctor notes, my ID card for my implants & hardware, etc) and make me feel like I can have a bit of power or control over my ailment. Instead of always feeling powerless or one controlled by it (the pain, condition, permanence). Again, thank you.

To two of the other posters here:

@Carnie - I do not know if you have a chronic pain issue, I do not want to assume if you do or do not have one. However, I can tell from your post you have little or no sympathy or empathy. I can tell you are making pre-judgements on everyone who takes some form of oxycodone. Lumping us all into one group - this seems to be a trend. Patients on oxycodone! They must be illegitimate drug abusers! I honestly hope you change your way of thinking or open yourself up to the possibility there are legitimate patients, such as myself. From the way your post is worded, it is rather confusing - it does sound like you work for a pharmacy - because you tell [us] not to blame the pharmacies. But, later in your post, you blame doctors for 'creating addicts' that you now have to deal with, so you are blaming the doctors?

As a person in legitimate chronic pain, I do want the DEA and the FDA to find a fair, working manner in which they can weed out people who do not need pain medication, as well as, find a working manner in which patients who are in legitimate pain are able to get their pain medication and not feel like a criminal. It is quite cruel to consistently have the rule always be the rule with no exceptions. This is the basest form of discrimination. Since I am a legitimate person with a disability and in chronic pain - of course - I do not want persons who are taking medication for some sort of high to get away with that abuse. It angers me to know it is people such as these who go doctors (then pharmacists) and receive a prescription for nothing at all - zero ailment. Just as it would anger anyone with a condition or disability to witness a person receiving benefits they should not - whatever they may be. For these abusers to falsely go to the ER, doctor, etc and in turn cause these types of problems? Yes, I want these people to be prosecuted, of course. Because it in turn brings medication to a point where it makes it either impossible to get it filled or impossible to know if the pharmacist is legitimately out of the product or if he/she is just giving me a line in order to save his license or store. I would rather a pharmacist honestly tell me they are trying to cover their assets than lie to me and force me to believe they are changing distributors or awaiting an order. I worked in a pharmacy, and, if the pharmacist tells you they are awaiting an order - follow up with, when will the order be in stock? I will come back and pick my prescription up then. If they look at you like a deer-in-headlights, you do not even need further verbal explanation to what they are doing. That they are lying to you. And, if there is something a patient needs to have with a doctor and a pharmacist - it is trust. I have a plethora of documentation, records, and scarring to show I am a legitimate customer. I have been lucky enough to go to a great pain management doctor and I have a great pharmacy. But, what happens if I cannot use that pharmacy one day? People have the right to know if he/she is there to help and serve his oath to help rather than over-compensate for a psuedo-DEA investigation that has not happened as a sort of pre-emptive strike. Or, a DEA investigation that could currently be happening. All of this - at the cost of a legitimate patient. That is who suffers. The pharmacist and employees will still get paid - most are paid hourly or by salary. They are not paid according to each script. And, when the pharmacist and employees are also making decisions about filling prescriptions based on their feeling - not by fact - yes it is their fault. Because it rests with them to fill it or not. When they make decisions to use any excuse/lie necessary in order not to fill that prescription - not by fact - yes it is their fault. And, it does not state anywhere that a pharmacy/pharmacist/tech is required by law to fill a prescription. So, in essence, the buck stops with them, with their judgement. So, I can completely understand a legitimate patient blaming the pharmacy, pharmacist, et al.

Oxycontin has been around since the early 1900s - this is not a recent drug. 'Where did all these pain patients come from?' For me, it was someone smashing into my car sending me to a surgeon - thus, after surgeries the surgeon sent me, himself, to a pain management specialist. Since, the DEA and FDA have created so many new laws surrounding opiates in the past 30 years to the present - family doctors are no longer able to prescribe them and neither are surgeons for a long duration. One is sent to a PM Specialist basically, when there is nothing more that can be done. Persons such as us did not just 'pop-up' out of the blue. It is the drugs that are in the spotlight more than ever, thus, it seems like there is an influx of patients with chronic pain. There is certainly an influx of abusers, pill-mills, and laws. And, as I stated before, I do not mind the laws - I would like laws where persons did not use the medication I am on to live a half-way normal life as a high. But, lumping everyone together and in-turn making it hard on persons with legitimate disabilities and pain to receive help is not a healthy answer for society as a whole.

On your final thought, oozing with spite and negative connotation which is really not needed in my opinion. Good luck getting any doctor to give their 'personal' pharmacist. If you are speaking of what their office uses - it will not matter anyway, a doctor cannot call-in these types of prescriptions. The only thing your doctor can help you with, in this area, is telling you that, 'ABC pharmacy will fill my prescriptions because we are affiliated with the same hospital, in the same building, fill all of my patients prescriptions, etc.' Sometimes it boils down to politics, like a great deal of this issue does, if the doctor is affiliated with a 'chain' of hospitals one will have an easier chance of finding a choice of pharmacies. If the doctor is affiliated with a private hospital, it is best to find what pharmacy is in/near that hospital and it is usually not a chain. That is really the only useful bit of information I can find out of your post that could help people in pain.

@duh: Try not to lump everyone into one category and try not to start your nickname with such a negative slang/observation. If you try not to, you will promote acceptance, tolerance, fairness, and sympathy. When you are in chronic pain, these things are important to witness in your fellow man. It would be great to see more people who are not in chronic pain on here being positive, supporting a friend, supporting a family member, etc.

There are many of us who try extremely hard to deal with our ailments without resorting to medication. I have tried homeopathic alternatives - including a spinal cord stimulator. But in the end, many of us including me, have no other choice but to take medication. If I am to even come close to enjoying life in a positive way. I know more about medications and procedures than some medical personnel I speak with - as well I should, it is my body. My responsibility. And all of these scars and surgeries are personal to me. And, I am totally aware of what these certain medications 'could' do to my liver and other organs - which is why I have blood work every six months. I am also aware of the physical dependency - which, please, do not confuse with psychological - and how differently my pain receptors are because of taking medication. I am aware of all of your 'points' you discuss. But, I am also acutely aware of the horrible quality of life I have when I do not take my medication.

Case in point, I have told doctors in the past I was going to try to stop all of my medication - against their advice - I did it. And, it was a harsh - harsh realization to come to - to know, emotionally endure, and physically feel I could not even do the simplest of tasks. That, I could not even concentrate correctly to stay on ONE task. So, do not lump us together, do not liken us to pitiful creatures who are 'resorting' or 'debasing' ourselves when we do have to take medications.

What will I personally do when the medications do not work as well - well, I already do it. I never increase, even after seven years of surgeries. Part of that is to exert my bit of control I do have over my own body. Part of it is so that I will not be twice my age and on twice as much. Do you actually have chronic pain and know how hard it is to hold yourself to that? But, I am proud of myself that I do it.

To both duh & carnie:

I can tell you, I learned the hard-way what it was like to point the finger only to have it happen to me. I 'thought' I could relate to a relative's chronic pain. I 'assumed' if they put their mind to it, they could overcome it and not have to ingest medication daily. After my car accident, I learned very quickly how little I knew and how - unless you are that person - you have no idea what it is like to live their day. Perspective and understanding are crucial. I would not wish what I have on anyone - not one soul. And, I know, it has changed my life - forever. For a person who was never in the same place more than 3 months, ran cross-country & the Peachtree Road Race, and never even took a tylenol - to someone with permanent disabilities now whom rarely leaves their home is harsh. Hopefully, you will not have to have it happen to you. Hopefully you can take it from someone in pain all the time. That, we already deal with 'some' doctors, insurance, surgeries, nurses, pharmacists, drug abusers, fellow patients, fellow posters who give glances, nuances, and opinions without really thinking - what would it be like if I had to live like that?

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It's gonna be very hard to fill. Ga now has all the crazy people from Florida here. Also why do you come to a doc in my state? I have a 4 page mri, handicapped tag, etc and I'm only 30 and for the last month and a half I cannot get my #60 30mg pills filled. The pharmacy I have uses forever hasn't got any in and I think its from the out of state explosion here and distributors are just not shipping it here like they were. Sadly I could go buy them on the street but I can't afford that. I'm about to make a video since I have been to over 60 pharmacies in the Atlanta area showing just how hard it is for a legit patient to fill and how easy it is to get them in the streets. I think some pharm techs have been bought out by groups of drug dealers since they have no problem filling. Love this country!! Not!!!

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stay in ur own state.thats why we locals are having such a hard time filliing our medication....and you know some of us accually take it

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First of all people DEA has shut down all bad clinics. Matter of fact you can't even call yourself a pain clinic in GA. My doc office who survived the cuts because they are amazing, don't proscribed high amounts of oxy and make you drug test every visit, have multiple MRIs every 6 months and has a PT who retired from working with the Olympics, had to change there name becuase it had the word PAIN in it. So don't worry folks, calm down, DEA has got it working the way it should thus eliminating all the drug seeking, drug dealing, scum. Now if you like Walgreens, or CVS this is there policy. You can get your script filled in the town you live in long as they can verify script and your doctor subscribes to "Casper" and if he don't then he's not legit anyways. I never have issues filling 150 roxi 30s, but I have to fill my meloxicam with it and my somas. It is a must. And my doctor is required to fax verification to pharmacy every month. So that makes it easier. You have to have this conversation with your pharmacist of you want them to take you serious. Tell them this is the way your doctor operates and if he don't then you are not getting it filled. Pharmacist that are not familiar with this process don't mind listening and looking your doctor up and then making a decision. But DEA has very few clinics on the "approved" list, if yours is not, find one that is. Premier medical management (I know I said I would give the name) is one that is but you may not get it becuase they only see 30 patients a day. They are not trying to get rich quick and if you are suspected of being anything but in legitimate pain, they work with the DEA to follow you and bust you for being a dealer. They subscribe to "Casper" which allows them every time you come in to check to see if your doctor shopping (which by the way is almost done away with in GA). So if you pain patients are telling the truth about really needing the meds then you will find a physician who plays by the rules and makes sure you are being treated for pain, not doped up or giving a $30,000 script to go make money. But like I said DEA has shut all but the ones that are in it for the care down. Travel from Kentucky if you want, but remember you live in a state that is very strict and for food reason. Most folks from that state are drug dealers.thus is the reason there are no I repeat no pain clinics in kentucky that write oxy. So for you GA complainers that is number one reason anyone in serious pain has to come to GA. DEA is not Unreasonble they are just trying to keep the public safe and keep the ones who need the meds safe. It's not easy. But they are making head way and if you do a little research, even if it evolves calling the dehec or DEA to get a list of good management clinics then do it. Your talking as if you will die if you can't take your meds so why are you so lazy into doing a little research and finding out what I'm saying is true. You can't just drive to the first clinic you hear about and get a script anymore. My doctor you will have to have MRI verified by doctor from imagining place, pharmacy history checked and verified by Caspar, release form from your current or old doctor, then a drug test, blood work, and PT. if you make it through all that then you are legitimately in chronic pain (which to the dumbass tech is different the cancer or terminal pain) and you will be seen helped and shown how to get your life back not just by drugs but a healthy diet plan, PT exercises you must learn and do at home, massages every other visit all included in your payment. Also my doctor excepts insurance so it's not a cash only scam. That's why DEA approves of doctor Williams and his amazing staff. And is why drug seekers, drug dealers, and any other low life usually don't make it through the first 3 steps. I was there Friday for my visit and a man from flordia was a walk in, had all his paper work in order, passd the Casper system, and then tried his best to get out of taking a drug test. Finally he realized he was gonn have to pee to be seen so he did, failed for heroin and cocain. Out the door he went. So don't play games. If you are in chronic pain get help but don't be a idiot about it. Pharmacist are done being played too. Treat them with respect as well..

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Hey Jon, the database in Georgia will not be up and running until 2013. I asked my pharmacist and it key up yet, they are working on it. Now in Kentucky and Florida you can see the numbers of how many places are really using it. In both states its under 30% of docs offices and pharmacies that actually report to it and use the system. Kentucky's numbers are even worse than in Florida. That info comes straight from the pdmp website. I was shocked when I saw thay figure because a lot of tax money is used and not even 25% of places are using it. That is why diversion still runs rampant. It's sad really but all this crap really messed up a lot for a lot of legit people cuz the ones who sell it never seemed to run out.

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ahhhhhh yes they can send controlled substances via mail or fed ex or ups! i know MANY people who have their controlled substances mailed to them

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I will not get into why I take pain medicines but, I can tell you that you do not belong in the industry you are in. Patients taking large amounts of pain medicine usually are cancer patients and HOW the Hell would you know what their medical condition is are you psychic? You have an extremely bad attitude and are very abusive and have been reported for trolling and abuse. I can tell by the way you type and express yourself...you have not been in the first day of college and I bet you did not even graduate high school. Nice try to act important though. I take 240 Oxycodones a day and make 125 per hour for your information and my pain is for what NONE of your business and you and people like you are the reason people die from Heroin OD's everyday because they figure if they are going be treated like a criminal by a nobody like you they may as well try and cure their pain that way. You are sick and heartless and need to get diagnosed with Cancer and then you would realize that YES Mr. Know Nothing some patients go from 125mcg every 48 hours to 200-300 Oxycodone 30mgs per month and it is legitimate because of opiate rotation which you have not a clue about. You stated you are not a Doctor yet you seem to think you know who is on need of what sort of medical treatment.....we know. I worked for 15 years getting through medical school as a Doctor of Pharmacology and I can tell you that, A.) you are not a tech B.) you are just a bitter troll pretending to know something on here. C.) be careful that thumb is always pointing in your own direction when the finger points at others.

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You know what I worked at a factory job for over 6 years and was making 13 an hour with no colleage and know I am messed up my shoulder and back. So unless you ever have had pain that you wish you would just died I agree with Chris. Do your job just fill the meds stop making it so hard on people if we come in and not acting all messed up and stupid. what is the problem. Your just a being a-holes about it all.

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You hit the nail on the head" do their jobs". They are not the DEA or the local detective agency or provate investigator are they? They are there to provide a medical service for patients and that is all they should DO not try to play inspector general. I mean who the hell are they to decide who is or is not a "real" chronic pain sufferer? They should be sued to hell and back and all this stuff would stop. They are the ones actually breaking the law by discriminating against someone they" cast judgement" falsely on.

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This is a response to the "Inside Person" and how he assumes surgeory will fix people's problems thus allowing them to live their life without narcotics. Well I say that's bull because I'm a 26 year old Iraqi Combat Disabled Veteran and I was shot twice, blown up by an IED, and had cancer so tell me from all my scars, including the 14" by 3" one going up my abdomen from my right leg that surgeory will help or I don't need pain meds. I'm take 4 30mg oxycodone and with 2 15mg oxycodone for breakthrough pain and you say I'm not entitled to having you fill my prescription because I choose to go to a pain clinic versus the Veteran Affairs who makes you jump through loops and still untreats my pain. The VA wanted to give me 5mg lortab 3 times a day for my pain which completely does nothing to help me and makes my depression completely worse. So I'm curious as to how surgeory will help me, or are you going to say "It's all in my head?" because I will tell you to go to Iraq and serve this country and get injuired saving your battle buddy and then imagine how you would feel if some prick pharmacy worker tells you "I'm not filling your prescription!"

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Dude your an ass..... Don't sit here and condemn people you don't even know for taking pain meds. Do you know what it's like to have 3 herniated discs in your lumbar spine with nerve root impingement ? I do and let me tell you, it sucks ass. I work full time and make more money than you ever will. So stop talking about what you don't go through everyday . Do you know what the odds are on spinal fusion relieving someone's pain when they have to be fused at 3 levels ? Not very damn good . Also, when you have a child and the only thing that keeps you going to work and enjoying just a little bit of physical activity with that child is pills, you would be taking them too.

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I cant stand know it alls!! I was hit by a semi 9 monrhs ago. I sustained 3 broken ribs, 4 disc displacements in my c spine, 3 ruptured discs in my l spine, concussion, and a fractured arm. I had previous back surgery as well as diabetes. They will not touch me for any type of surgery on my back. I've begged and pleaded for it but they want me on a pain medicated regimen only. The meds don't really help other than just keeping me from breaking through my threshold. I would give them up in a heart beat at a chance to have my life back. Some people can't just go have the surgery it's not that easy. Good thing i got a 967,000.00 settlement out of all this!!

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Its maffia sh.t. they give meds to who they want. Not to who actually needs them. Pills are everywhere on the street but legitamate pain patients have to suffer. Government needs to stop playing God because at one point in life u will need these meds. I feel sorry for folks who are suffering because government has no clue of what to do.

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I am so happy you got some financial compensation but, you do seem to get the point that no one should play God in deciding who should or should not receive the medication or who is really in pain or not. I think it is people like you that keep going with all odds against them that give hope to others. Keep striving for the goodness and it will always come to you.

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First I totally disagree and in fact it's not legal fir a pharmacist to deny you medication that an actual doctor prescribes you. What actual knowledge does he have ill tell you none at least not compared to a doctor! Second not all of the people on this medication can afford to get surgery! I for example am a carpenter with severe back issues from a car accident, in wich I was actually in a coma, a neck injury from the same and I have a blown out knee from a skiing accident when I was a kid! Oh I forgot to mention I have a severe hernia. Guess what moron I don't have insurance I have 2 kids and I pay for thier doctors and my own and without that medication I wouldn't be able to work so don't sit up on your little pedestal and act like you know anything about the real work who are you to judge ?? I work I pay my own cost I went to the emergency room for my hernia and they told me unless I'm in danger on strangulating my nut I'm on my own if you I'm all your wisdom will pay for the surgeries I need to be able to function I'd glady get off all of this medicine but until then don't pass judgment one day you may need these medicines and them we will see how you talk !!! Ignorance is bliss I guess that still rings true!!

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The states differ on the laws about the pharmacist being able to actually deny a script or not. I know in Texas they have the legal right to deny any prescription if it is not life threatening to the patient to do so. Now does that make it right that they do so? Of course NOT. They are not in a position to pass judgement but, then again neither is have the people that pass judgement about really important things everyday. The reality is that unfortunately some really nasty people decided to use this drug as a recreational drug and abuse it and create hardship for people like you and me that really need this medicine and take it as directed. You notice that the guy that posted the original hateful troll post has yet to come back and defend his original post? Yeah he is a coward apparently. I let him know from a physician and patients perspective how wrong he is and he has not even replied to me yet. I have taken oxycodone for a long time and I now take oxymorphone ER and oxycodone IR for breakthrough . The Opana ER ( extended release) is better than Oxycotin ER in strength about 10 times stronger ( more effective) in relieving chronic pain syndrome like you and I have. The Oxycodone IR ( immediate release) was designed to work for no more then 4-6 hours maximum and I rarely have patients report it lasting more then 4 hours.

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Spinal Survivor thank you for your post. I had many friends on the streets that were merely addicts who bought, sold and traded their pills for crack, money whatever. I too judged them..I understand now why they didi what they did but i also remember that the amounts they used to get high or nod out were microscopic compared to what I as a legit pain patient use! All the media fuss is just propaganda. Cannibas and poppy are something truely self sustainable as the liberals call it but it also collapses their big pharma and big govt. goals. There have been courageous doctors who prescribe monstrous amounts of opiates andhave CURED folks of things. Sadly theve had to retire before being attacked and arrested. I wish Dr Phil would ease up a bt. Not all opiate users are brain damaged. Ok yeah im a bit bipolar and went off track but ok Spinal, I appreciate your lengthy well informed posts.

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Hey Inside Guy,

I'm fairly certain the doctors writing the prescriptions are your boss and essentially a pharmacist is to ensure that prescription gets filled correctly and does not interact with the patient's other medication(s).

Their job is NOT to ascertain whether "the patient" needs them or not, that is what doctors are for....I now see clearly, the Pharmacists not filling the prescriptions have gotten a God Complex and suffer from delusions of grandeur. Perhaps they are keeping all the oxycodone for themselves and that is the real reason they don't want to fill the prescriptions, because then they would have to live in the real world!

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Pharmacist are not all-knowing. I don't know who gave them the right to be Judge- jury -executioner. But it's unethical and complete bullsh*t

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