Pharmacist Refusing To Fill My Script Of Suboxone. What Do I Do??? (Page 5) (Top voted first)

I wet to my doc 7 days early because of running out early. I took my new script to pharmacy and said, this is early so I won't be using insurance. My doc said you can call him if necessary. Well no one wanted to. They filled two per day for three days. On the third day I asked to fill the rest on insurance for the next day. I was one day early. When I called the next morning to have my daily two filled the pharmacy manager said no we won't be filling it for another 5 days. Go to the ER for your withdrawals but don't come here because I won't give it to you. Has this happened to anyone else????

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?!?!? Wtheck? Reply to mean--nothing i said?

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So sorry House...i misinterpreted (must be the drugs Lol...& then it sent to soon. Ignore prior scrambled message!

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Especially seeing that Opioid Addiction is now looked at as Chronic Medical Condition..
And Pharmavists, are NOT M.D.s....I don't care WHAT they think. Some of them let it get to their heads that they CONTROL the situation...Withdrawals and misery, or give him or her their meds. Bungholes...

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Buprenorphine is a semisynthetic opioid derivative of thebaine. It is a mixed partial agonist opioid receptor modulator that is used to treat opioid addiction in higher dosages, to control moderate acute pain in non-opioid-tolerant individuals in lower dosages and to control moderate chronic pain in even smaller doses.[3] It is available in a variety of formulations: Cizdol, Subutex, Suboxone, Zubsolv, Bunavail (available as buprenorphine HCl alone or buprenorphine and naloxone HCl (see buprenorphine/naloxone); typically used for opioid addiction), Temgesic (sublingual tablets for moderate to severe pain), Buprenex (solutions for injection often used for acute pain in primary-care settings), Norspan and Butrans (transdermal preparations used for chronic pain).[4]

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Totally agree, i always mix it up...dont really run short but dont like waiting until the last minute...but i will Intentionally wait if im having a good month...& go on 30/31 day ...so another time if i need on 28 it wont be prob!

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Away from hone, I doubt it because no one is going to take your word for that you are prescribed Suboxone. Why did you run out ? This is not the type of med that you don't check to be sure you have enough when you go out of town.

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Oh, yes I was 3 days early, and my insurance will allow 5 days, the Walgreens pharmacist refused to fill the script, and told me the same thing for to the ER, did that, I was taken mine for pain, the ER told me they wouldn't give me any ideas just have to go home. Very rudely I might add.

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I am positive There are programs to help reduce the cost of the actual prescription. There are NOT any programs to help differ or reduce the cost of the actual doctor visit that I am aware of. If you don't qualify for the assistance with the prescription there is a generic pill form of Suboxone now which is about a third of the price of the name brand film. BUT you have to ask for that or they will probably automatically write you the name brand unless you request otherwise. Let me know if I can be of any help as I am always willing to help someone who is willing to help themselves do better. Best of luck.

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Does anyone know how Suboxone is dispensed in Ontario? Can I take my prescription home?

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I hate to tell you but pharmacies in ohio run something called Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) which is a tool to track the dispensing and personal furnishing of controlled prescription drugs to patients. OARRS is designed to monitor this information for suspected abuse or diversion. I don't now where you live but I think it's in every state? They can see what you fill and how much. I have been on suboxone since 2010 for chronic pain and I get treated like dirt by some pharmacies but I report them to the medical board and I have had 2 pharmacists fired! That's right! I recorded what they said on my phone and had them say their names and spell it...lol! They were not so cocky after I started playing the recording back for them to hear! They about s*** themselves trying to back peddle their way out of the trouble I was going to cause for them. I am 59 years old and I have had serious surgeries and health problems and my pain specialist knows my history of addiction, which I was sober for 16 years before I had a heart attack, but treats me like a human being who has actual pain, not an addict. When I was in my rehab I was in there with both doctors and pharmacists that became addicted just like any other addict. Not that they woke up one day and said "today I think I shall become an addict" it just happens to the best of us before we realize it. These doctors and pharmacists that judge us patients trying to stay sober should have to go thru the same rehab we have been thru to see how hard we work to get sober and stay sober and then maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't discriminate against us or anyone? Good luck to you, God bless.

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It took me about three months of picking up daily and doing twice weekly urine anaylsis before my clinic would let me go on to monthly pick-up's...SO worth it though as I get to pick up at a chemist, they are lovely, speak to me like a human being and ask about my kids, job, life in general. I find if you act like a junkie, carrying on and making a scene, then you will get treated like a junkie...I know people here who are still using, so thats why they will NEVER stop having to pick up daily, yet they whinge as if it;s the system that's got the problem....so ungrateful and stupid. Still living like drug addicts, they should be booted off the system if they are not providing clean urines. Just my opinion though. I truly believe Suvboxone saved my life, so I am not going to jeapordise that by still using drugs.

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This is the most honest post I've read! Good for you and you betcha it gives you your life back. Screw every ***** or judgmental hypocrite out there. It's just sad that people have to be humiliated and almost stripped of any dignity just to get through this life! I say it's too bad liquor isn't data based controlled...more people may think twice before high browing people.

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Yes kinda. Use use two pharmacies for that reason. One has my insurance info n will fill whatever n ins will pay for it. If i need something earlier, i take that script to a diff pharmacy altogether like cvs vs target and pay for that one out of pocket. They dont have my ins card, i say i dont have ins and they have no idea what or when i may have filled elsewhere. Hope that helps.

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That's great Rob, no one was trying to down you at all. You know how important 'net- etiquette' can be when typing. It just came off in a way is all :)

Anywhoooo, glad everyone is doing good. I was initially prescribed 12 mgs a day but usually only took four, maybe eight. Now I'm weaning, about 14 months in, been clean since. But honestly, very worried, my boyfriend still uses recreational. If such a thing is possible for addicts. I've told him when I'm off the subs I don't want to be in the position to feel like I could make myself feel high just once and fall right back into the cycle of HELL. So I'm just incredibly worried about that and weaning off completely. I've been going slow but it seemed in the beginning I could have done it easier compared to now. I'm technically on one a day but bounce between the usual four to eight mg daily. What's y'alls experience with this??

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Yeah I've never heard them tapering that early! My understanding is Suboxone treatment is a two year program or at least close to it. The reading I've found says that anything sooner then two years has a relapse rate of 85%....you think your doctor would be concerned about that more then anything. I heard it takes two years for your opiate receptors to shrink back to normal. I'd just be honest with him and tell him what's on your mind. Maybe throw that two year fact out as a lil extra tidbit too. But your reasoning is completely acceptable. It's a stressful time of the year anyways, and most addicts suffer from mental illnesses to begin with which is why we most started using anyways. I feel ya, I've got borderline personality disorder and ed social anxiety among whatever the grand diagnosis is this year. But to some of these doctors your an addict to EVERYTHING and can't be trusted. I've found just being honest, no matter what it's about, with your doctor is the best route in the long run. But most aren't as understanding to our plight. Hope it goes good for you though, most docs wean slower too only an eighth at a time to begin with and then after that goes good maybe cut it by fourths after awhile. And my doc has told me if it's not working just let them know and they will call in my old amount or stop weaning for awhile, i've been on one a day for four months now and doing like you want in January cutting down a fourth or an eighth starting then. I've been getting myself ready for it by taking half day most the time but have still never experienced what its like when subs half life runs out...terrified of the story's I hear ..

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I live on the tn ky border

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Hey trying to help, haven't been on here in a few. How did everything go?? I had my psychiatrist say the same thing before, if you've got enough stress in your life at the time then it's not going to help by adding more and possibly dopesickness on top of it. Wish doctors took their Hippocratic oaths a little more seriously these days. ..seems like numbers and cash are the almighty now.

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Hi ash, thanks for checking on me. I did have the visit but man did it go all wrong. That doc is just mean and strict. After i explained what ive heard here online and others advice and told him my concerns, he told me those people online and in forums are not ur doctor. They are not ur suboxone prescriber. That this is not a brain disease and there is nothing to heal from, that its all mental really and im not physically dependent anymore just mental. Suboxone is a replacement for opiates so that u can fend off the withdrawl symptoms and that its his way or find another doc. And as far as the people online, they should not tell u when or how much suboxone, only help with how to keep ur mind off opiates and maintaining a drug free life. So he let me go 3 more weeks at my nlormal dose to get through the holidays and at my next visit we tapper. -now i think its goin too fast too. Im at 16 a day. In my mind i should drop by 2 if im gona have to do this, not even ready remember. But he wants me to go down to 12 and ignore what people tell me other than him. I wish i had another option for a doctor. Im scared and think this is gona go bad. Not that im gona use opiates cause i got dependent on them being prescribed to me and they arent anymore so i have no access to them but about my family-kids and husband. I see me being tempered and moody and no patience and they are the ones that will have to deal with me like that. Its not fair to any of us but i have no other choice. This all saddens me very much. Any thoughts? And merry christmas and happy new year to all and especially ash. Ur the only one on here to ever talk to me directly. Thanks for that.

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I'm so worried. I've been on suboxone for8 years. I have 6 days before walgreens will refill my prescription and only 2. 8 mg strips. I dont know what to do. If the anxiety wasn't so bad but its horrible. I just had a major surgery in November. I went off the suboxone while i was getting dilaudid in the hospital. Well after the surgery i went back on the suboxone. I guess it was a hard transition and i took more sub for about a week now I'm a week short. I didn't think. filling a few days early would be abig deal. I keep telling myself to wait until i can't take it anymore and take half of one like every other day i don't know if i can though. This time I'm giving my strips to someone and having then give me 2 a day so i don't overt take . Any suggestions? I'm 43 single mom of 14 and work full time

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