Reluctance To Prescribe Narcotic Painkillers?

[PhilipDT]

The other thread in the Newcomer's forum (now locked) reminded me of something I've been wondering about for a while. Has anybody else noticed a strong prejudice from doctors against common narcotic pain medicine like vicodin and percocet? Contrary to what House portrayed and what someone posted in the other thread, vicodin is a relatively mild painkiller (prescribed for moderate pain) whose main risk is actually the Tylenol component (usually 500mg).

As a former "extreme" sport athlete I've certainly had my fair share of vitamin V and variations prescribed over time, so imagine my surprise when after my appendectomy I was prescribed not oxycotin or vicodin but some quite useless hi powered ibuprofen called ketolac. I wrote it off as a strange painful quirk until a few weeks ago when I ended up in the hospital with 2 cracked ribs. After waiting a few hours (SAME took me to a public hospital) I got a shot of depo, a kiss on the head and a prescription for ibuprofen. When I told the doc that while I appreciated the prescription for an over the counter headache pill, I would like a prescription for a real painkiller, he told me that they don't prescribe opiate based medicine.

Has anyone else noticed this? Could it be because of the import restrictions?

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Once, in Chile, I managed to get a pharmacist to refill an empty Vicodin prescription even though the label said "no refills."

 

[Bajo_cero2]

There are regulations about to do not prescribe more than iboprofeno or supragenic at guardia.

I was at guardua a couple of weels ago when a disk of my spine got broken and I had to wait until they gave me a room as a patient and the pain specialist came before they gave me first morphine and later ketorolac and metadona. (an opiate). I have a 15 days treatment with metadona but the doctor check me 2 a week.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadona

It has nothing to do with import restrictions because argentina has a strong farmacy industry. I m sure that it is not allow to produce or to import the drugs you mentioned because they are convination of 2 drugs.

Percocet is oxicodone plus paracetamol. Oxicodone is a opiate. It means that the abuse produce phisicall addiction.

Opiate drugs for sure cannot be convinated like in Percocet in Argentina.

The vicodine is hydrocodona, another opiate.

It is all about to avoid to create new junkies. The opiate drugs are worst than cocaine because when cocaine produces a apicologic addiction, the opiate produces physical adiction.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Psicologic I ment

 

[ajoknoblauch]

There are regulations about to do not prescribe more than iboprofeno or supragenic at guardia.

I was at guardua a couple of weels ago when a disk of my spine got broken and I had to wait until they gave me a room as a patient and the pain specialist came before they gave me first morphine and later ketorolac and metadona. (an opiate). I have a 15 days treatment with metadona but the doctor check me 2 a week.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadona

It has nothing to do with import restrictions because argentina has a strong farmacy industry. I m sure that it is not allow to produce or to import the drugs you mentioned because they are convination of 2 drugs.

Percocet is oxicodone plus paracetamol. Oxicodone is a opiate. It means that the abuse produce phisicall addiction.

Opiate drugs for sure cannot be convinated like in Percocet in Argentina.

The vicodine is hydrocodona, another opiate.

It is all about to avoid to create new junkies. The opiate drugs are worst than cocaine because when cocaine produces a apicologic addiction, the opiate produces physical adiction.

Convinated?

 

[Iznogud]

He ment "combined", I guess.

 

[EricLovesBA]

Hey give him a break. Anyone could make a mistake like that when they're all strung out on ibuprofen.

But seriously, hope you guys are feeling better - with or without the meds.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

He ment "combined", I guess.

Indeed.

 

[Montauk_Project]

Funny, I found that they are too willing to prescribe pain killers and anti-depresents. I walked out on a few who after I got hurt wanted to give me strong pain meds. My husband has a few lying around that he never took.

you are going to public hospitals. Go to a private doctor and they will write you one for phama-grade coke if you ask nicely. There is one on my plan who I think is just there to write prescriptions for whatever you want.

(on a side note, if you have a lot of pain, I suggest looking into alternative medicine, yoga, pilates, etc. These drugs will just f--k you up in the long run).