The Cvs Pain Police (Page 3)
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CVS, a company involved in scandalous behavior in the past is now going to dictate policy on pain meds and prescribing. I urge all pain patients to contact your public officials to not allow this company to now play god with what is prescribed to you superseding your doctors orders and for many patients to file litigation against this company and the CDC or any other governmental agencies that allow these criminals to become your doctors and set the rules. This organization cannot be allowed to set the rules when it comes to your healthcare. They have again overstepped their authority and this latest fiasco shows how they have no regard to patients who need these medications for quality of life. Trying to take medication from people who need it is criminal. Just google this company and see how many times they have been involved in behavior, it's insane. This company should not enact any type of policy. I'm ashamed of the media who carry their messages and any politician in cohorts with this company should be booted out of office immediately. Again, I urge you to contact your officials about the pharmacies who attempt to tell you what, how many and when you can take your meds. Total insanity. " In a new effort to tackle the deadly opioid addiction crisis in the United States, pharmacy giant CVS announced Friday that it will limit opioid prescriptions to seven days for certain conditions. This restriction will apply to patients who are new to pain therapy. The new pharmacy program will also limit the daily dosage of pain pills based on their strength and will require use of immediate-release formulations before extended-release opioids -- intended for severe, long-term pain treatment -- are dispensed. The changes will roll out February 1 and cover all commercial, health plan, employer and Medicaid clients. " [1] [1] http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/health/cvs-prescription-restrictions-opioids-bn/index.html Editor's note: News article quote and citation added

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Re: Gregory (# 74)

If they didn't have your entire Rx in stock, did they tell you to come back on a certain day for the remainder or tell you to get a new script?

If you needed a new script, did you go back 2 days before your semi Rx was empty? If you got the door slammed in your face, it must have been a Tech at the drive-thru. You should have asked to speak to the Pharmacist or stand where it says 'Questions'. The Pharmacist would surely see you were correct. It seems there is another Tech at your pharmacy who is trying to think over her pay grade. Report her also!

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Re: Tse (# 1)


Federal Law gives every Pharmacist the right to refuse to fill prescriptions that have doubts about. This law is not new.

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I got a script from my doctor for the dreaded "OXYCONTIN" (the Junkies best friend it seems) and the Pharmacy I went to didn't have enough so I got half of the script. next day I got another script from same doctor for the other half. As I ran out of the first script of 1/2 I went to my wonderful CVS store (which is across the street from my subdivision) to get it filled. The helpful pharmacist took the script typed in my name and handed it back to me exclaiming: "You cannot get this filled because it is too soon". I explained what happened and he shook his head and closed the window! I felt like a common criminal! Like I was trying to make a drug heist. I'm telling you I have not set foot in a CVS since and I swear to you (hand to God) I never will!

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Re: tim111 (# 66)

There is a HUGE difference between a Tech taking your Rx and a Pharmacist filling your Rx.

There was a Tech who would look at the date, and say a script was too early to fill. My husband would have to explain to her there were 31 days in that certain month. Needless to say, she was the Rx Nazi. We called Corporate CVS and explained the situation. From that 1 phone call her attitude changed.

Pharmacist can choose to fill or not, Techs need to take the Rx and leave for the Pharmacist. I totally agree, many try to make decisions that are above their pay grade. Get their name and report them immediately!

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Re: Vorder (# 3)

Exactly there are no more OD's then there were before. Those ODs have been happening since man found the poppy plant. Now w/ cell phone pictures, tweeting etc.All the celebrates getting caught red handed by police body cams. It's no worse then it was 30 years ago. Its just a huge $ making event. Big Pharma loves it. Get on the pills, then its time to get off the pills,You need different ones.

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Re: James weldon (# 70)

"Do not go gentle into that good night."
We must fight for our right to live with some quality of life for Gods sake.
I have the insurance to pay for it.

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Truth, everyone needs to tell the government and all other associations to stay out of our medicine. Pharmacies are their to fill medecine. You’re Doctor is there to prescribe what he thinks you need. There’s way worse things going on in this world than people in pain. Leave us alone. If everybody would be realistic and think for themselves the logical reason behind this is clearly something beneficial for the government. I don’t know exactly how but, they couldn’t care less about any other aspect of our lives except taxes. Open your eyes people. I promise it’s more than just a few people overdosing. You never hear the full stories. Only what they want you to hear. Do not set back idly until they’ve taken everything away from you.

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CVS Pharmacy refused to fill a RX for Bentyl for my ulcerative colitis. I use Walgreens for all meds, including my RX from a pain management clinic. Both thumbs have been broken, 7 surgeries on one, in a plaster cast 3 years, 4 surgeries on the other, removing the trapezium. I am truly handicapped. The pharmacist has seen my struggles and many colorful casts every 2 weeks for years and is very empathetic & compassionate when I pick up my pain RX, which I only take when pain is severe. Walgreens was happy to fill my Bentyl, which I rarely take. My MONECULAR DNA analysis was so informative, showing what meds I should never take. My doctors all have a copy of it.

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Folks.
BIGGER PICTURE.
As vile, disgusting, and utterly BARBARIC as it is to keep those who DESERVE a quality of life FROM having any quality of life through pain management, it goes MUCH further than American politicians. CVS is just the TIP of the iceberg of deceit and corruption.

RESEARCH as to the REAL reasons we're still in the Middle East, namely Afghanistan.
Keywords: "opium production" or "poppy production". (Hint: Not "freedom", "democracy", nor "protection from 'terrorists' " have ANYTHING to do with it.)

You have NO ONE other to thank than the United States government and those that pull the strings behind the scenes, again, namely the CIA.

EDUCATE YOURSELVES.
They NEED us to stay uninformed; it is CRUCIAL for their corrupt ways to continue as they have been, undetected for decades upon decades.

If something doesn't sit right in your mind or gut, RESEARCH IT, no matter WHAT it is or HOW "bizarre" it seems.

"No matter how 'paranoid' or 'conspiracy-minded' you think you are, what your government is really doing is far worse than you could ever imagine."
-William Blum, ex-department of the state federal employee

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Re: SheriAmore (# 62)

Again, reading comprehension! When you call me a "know it all" I am now definitely taking it as a compliment.

There were 0 statements of what anyone should do. I was explaining procedures (to someone else) that I have tried. I am not surgery happy. My usual wait for back surgery is unable to walk at all. Obviously I waited too long with the bowel obstructions, but I didn't want to miss my son playing in the Football Playoffs, they won!

Ah, anyone pills filled early. Even if your insurance company will fill on day 28 days. What's the big deal? If your Rx is written for 30days, 90 pills..28 days = 6 extra pills a month. Filling on 29th is still 3 extra a month. Filling at 28 days gives you 72 extra pills in 12 months. If your doctor says you can take more if needed, all they have to do is write your Rx for 95 or 100 pills and write 3-4 a day as needed. Then you will have no problem. If you do it at CVS, change pharmacies.

With the dispensing laws, and you knowing I use CVS, you think I get tons of drugs? Are you Pharmacy shopping?

You my dear are the one who needs to grow up. Again, reading comprehension...Google it!

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Why do we shop there at all? I will NOT I think we all have had issues with a pharmacy, I've been in pain management for 22 years and whenever I have to go to a new pharmacy its the same BS! After all the grief they do fill for me. I think its the tech stretching their power so we know whos boss. and its NOT THEM!

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Re: SheriAmore (# 61)

One of those people? How do I know all these things?
I apologize for being educated about the Oxy Highway, along with the Vicodan, Percoset, etc.
I also apologize for being Scholarly Educated, and for educating myself on my physical issues, along with my husbands?

May I ask what you do for a living?

You read my posts with anger and reply before ingesting what I wrote. My posts read...IF a doctor says you need surgery.....We're you told to have surgery for your Migraines? No. Then that part of my post did not refer to you.

I don't see me telling anyone what medication they should be on. If i did make a suggestion, everyone would flipout! Yet I do know enough when someone is being over prescribed.

I have been in chronic pain for over 3 decades. I have no horse to get off of, since I would fall on my ass trying to get up on one, no matter how high. As a matter of fact, I would have a hard time, even with assistance, just to get to the barn.

You are a very angry girl, instead of throwing your anger at me, please spew your venom at the person you are truly mad with. I AM NOT A CVS PHARMACIST!

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My neurosurgeon is banned from CVS, as of 6 weeks ago. That is why he is shipping us all out of his office to pain management.
Avoiding jail.

My neurosurgeon, cut my spinal cord and then never documented he did that. In fact he described the 360 lumbar fusion as "textbook" and he said it in front of my husband, so I have a witness. Get your surgery records if you have any bad side effects. like I did. I woke up with "drop foot" and I did not have it when I came to see him initially. I found out only because WC pro se' patients can get their surgery records for free. There were 2 other surgeons in the OR, and THEY documented his "mistake". He chose to omit this from HIS notes....what a puke. I hate being lied to. He claimed, "we found a nerve frayed, and had to sew it and wrap it so it will help it grow back." That is not even noted in his surgery notes. I still take Oxycodone because my spinal cord was cut and my chart says, "foot drop is permanent and this was explained to the patient." NOPE!

CVS, DO YOU HAVE ANY idea what it feels like to suffer a spinal cord injury, that occurred during my first of 2 surgeries? How can you randomly just decide, that the medication we are on, is excessive, or we have been taking it too long?

Its a medical malpractice to diagnose a person picking up pain medication, without ANY knowledge of their circumstances, and then refuse to fill it.

I was lied to by 1 of 3 surgeons, and now he is jerking me around on my "rating", because I found out he caused it. The WC Chairman's office has been notified,

I can barely walk to the end of my driveway and I lost the ability to pedal even a stationary bike. (L-3). The NERVE pain from the "cerebrospinal fluid dural tear" is horrendous. I wake in the middle of the night screaming from this agony, in my left leg.

I tried Lyrica already and after 2 days, I had to go off of it. Then I went to Gabapentin, and it worked for 5 months. Then I started getting really emotional and paranoid. I am weaning off that slowly, thanks to my primary doctor swooping into the rescue.

I went off Oxycontin and switched to just Oxycodone, and I already feel better, emotionally. My nerve pain is coming back full force, and I cannot get into pain management until November 2. I made the appointment a month ago!

CVS was "fined" for not keeping records of doctors who "they feel" are over-prescribing. Being mean to us and humiliating us when we go to have narcotic prescription filled, is just a bully tactic. The pharmacist, said, "We will fill your Gabapentin". I was like, "No that's ok," as I snatched it back out of her hand. "Walgreens can fill both of them." I HATE bad service, so I refuse to give CVS, ANY business.

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Re: Deborah (# 58)

Absolutely! You may take your business wherever you choose. My question would be if you haven't already changed pharmacies, why? It sounds as if you did change from CVS you would have less stress in your life. I hope you have made the switch, and are happy and less stressed.

As you stated, we all can use any pharmacy we choose, some people need to stop b****ing and just do it!

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Re: Rikki (# 56)


YEP. A know-it-all who's basing HER experience to put everybody else down & what everybody else should be doing. How 'bout that? Putting somebody down for not having surgery yet clearly your 8 surgeries worked -- whatever know it all. Maybe YOUR pain is different or maybe it's not as bad or maybe you get so much medication that you don't have to get yours filled a day or two early...hmm...that's a thought.

Not everybody's experience is the SAME. Someday you grow up wake up and realize that.

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Re: Rikki (# 35)


Well that is the most asinine statement I've read.

You must be one of those people who abused the legal way of obtaining opiates for-profit or you wouldn't know so much about it; yet you also seem to know so much about people who REALLY suffer & what they should and shouldn't take to make their life better.

How about the ones who are in SEVERE pain for MANY years -- DECADES even who CAN'T have surgery because "RIKKI aka KNOW IT ALL" what type of surgery do you recommend for intractable migraine!!?? There is none. I finally, 20 years into my daily SEVERE pain, found a compassionate; knowledgeable; caring pain management doctor (who is not a "pill mill" doctor but actually knows his craft) He also writes & speaks all over the country. So the next time you want to spew out your unknowledgeable venom, think about it twice; shut your mouth & in the meantime you get off your damn high horse.

LOL!! "There's alot more people to blame other than CVS" WTF!?? Add yourself to the list for spreading untruths about pain & pain patients. Clearly you're a CVS pharmacist; at the very least you know nothing & should not be posting anything regarding PAIN & how to treat it.

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Re: KellyMe (# 39)


RIGHT?? Yet ALL the alcohol & marijuana & street drugs are out there for all of these other people to TAKE AS MUCH AS THEY WANT. But the government wants to mandate how I deal with my pain!!?? I'm telling you after 35 years, if marijuana worked that's EXACTLY what I'd be using. I'm tired of this B.S.

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Re: Tse (# 1)

Not surprised after reading the post about CVS. Walgreens and CVS are the same company.

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Re: Rikki (# 55)

I got involved with this thread because I agree with most, that CVS is out of line. I do have medical insurance, I don't take opiates. Rikki, I know you mean well, but CVS is making policies that reflect socialism. The USA is a Republic with a free market. That means we can complain to CVS and take our business elsewhere.

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Re: Deborah (# 43)

I believe BY LAW everyone must have Health Insurance due to Odumma.

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