Borzak
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Some "honeymoon". We've lived together for right at 20 years.
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Some "honeymoon". We've lived together for right at 20 years.
McQueen
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My mom ran into that bullshit when it was first introduced. She’d had no problem getting refills at 23~ days for years, then suddenly the (new) pharmacist, following the new policy, went back and counted every extra day between 23 and 27 days. My mom got to go 15 days past the refill date because “that’s how many pills she should have.”
I did manage to get that cunt fired, at least.
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iannis
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I mean that's shitty, but the law is the law, and I don't completely blame a pharmacists (or their tech following instructions) for doing it. Pharmacists can go to jail for making a habit of that.
It should be VERY easily solved by a call from the doctors office though, at worst.
It's funny, my mom had the opposite thing. Doctor put her on a diurectic that she takes sometimes, and the pharmacy refilled her. She went to the doctor and the doctor wrote her another rx for it... which had already been refilled. Doctor raised an eyebrow at that one.
They really shouldn't have done that. Oops! But it's just a peepill.
It should be VERY easily solved by a call from the doctors office though, at worst.
It's funny, my mom had the opposite thing. Doctor put her on a diurectic that she takes sometimes, and the pharmacy refilled her. She went to the doctor and the doctor wrote her another rx for it... which had already been refilled. Doctor raised an eyebrow at that one.
They really shouldn't have done that. Oops! But it's just a peepill.
Borzak
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My tramadol is 30 day prescription, 2 pills a day. Recently it changed to 29 days from the phramacy or something like that. I guess it was a new law. Didn't matter to me I have a giant bottle of ones I never took. It says "as needed" and I didn't need it that day. Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
Izo
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Wait, we can't write - oogaa-boogaa-oogaa-boogaa? For real, that shit is 1.sem stuff
Woefully Inept
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Fuck man back around 2003 I was popping 6-8 vicodin per day. I had needed it for a good 3 years straight but then just never got off them until my doctor finally brought up my frequent refills. It was absolute hell to get off them. It is exactly what I'd wish on my worse enemy. lol
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pharmakos
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Nah, that's the thing, it ISN'T the law here, but Walgreens has their own policies above and beyond the law. And a call from my doctor didn't do anything, she tried.
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McQueen
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Walgreens engineered their “Good Faith Dispensing Policy” in a way that gives their pharmacists carte blanche to decline to fill prescriptions, or delay refills, with no real oversight or recourse. Getting a prescription rewritten because the pharmacist just didn’t like the cut of your jib on some random day is enough for that same pharmacist to decline the rewritten prescription, per “Good Faith.”
This particular problem pharmacist hadn’t figured that I work for the guy that owns all of the properties that Walgreens leases in my city, and our cardiologist happens to be my bosses neighbor. Sucked to be her.
This particular problem pharmacist hadn’t figured that I work for the guy that owns all of the properties that Walgreens leases in my city, and our cardiologist happens to be my bosses neighbor. Sucked to be her.
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Noodleface
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Mother has an aneurysm on her heart or whatever (something aortic aneurysm). They measured it at 4.0mm(or is it cm?) And never told her until now when it increased to 4.2. They're meeting her to discuss surgery. I'm a bit not sure about this stuff - what's the seriousness of this out of 10? How dangerous is the surgery ?
Kuriin
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Last I checked, surgical correction for an aortic aneurysm is not until >5cm or otherwise symptomatic. However, depending on the location of it, I would be all for it. My hubby has a 4.2cm aneurysm in his arch of valsava which is a Stanford type A. Terrifying.
In regards to your question: Blood pressure control is really the big thing here. If it dissects and if it's a type A, you are looking anywhere from a minute to about 3 hours to live unless you get to an OR. I actually had a patient with a type A dissection all the way down to the iliac. I am shocked he was not symptomatic AND he lived enroute to the OR!
In regards to your question: Blood pressure control is really the big thing here. If it dissects and if it's a type A, you are looking anywhere from a minute to about 3 hours to live unless you get to an OR. I actually had a patient with a type A dissection all the way down to the iliac. I am shocked he was not symptomatic AND he lived enroute to the OR!
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meStevo
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3 months later, glucose 97, a1c 5.6% and down 35 lbs. Adulting so hard. Go back next week to discuss results!
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sleevedraw
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Surgery is dangerous (falls into the "high-risk" group of surgeries in the insurance world, so we usually give docs carte blanche to get whatever preop testing they want done), not treating it is also dangerous.
Like Kuriin said, BP control is important.
If she smokes, she needs to stop.
Noodleface
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Yeah they told her usually they wait until 5 but it suddenly started growing/increasing in size rapidly so she needs to meet anyways.
She did quit smoking I guess... After 50 years
Borzak
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Went to the doctor this morning. The fatigue has gotten incrediably worse. Like I worry if the house caught on fire I'd be too tired to even make it out. He suggested Adderall. Any experience? Especially adults. I know it's got problem with kids which is I think most they prescribe it for.
According to the doctor it helps fatigue and cognitive fog. That's one of the issues I have and reason I rarely drive. Just wondering if anyone had problem with it in adults.
According to the doctor it helps fatigue and cognitive fog. That's one of the issues I have and reason I rarely drive. Just wondering if anyone had problem with it in adults.
Frenzied Wombat
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Free speed? Go for it. I don’t have ADHD or whatever but when my friend who does is in town I raid his supply. It’s a nice buzz with a boost of energy.
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Kuriin
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iannis
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Try adderall. It won't hurt you. If you don't like it you can just stop taking it without negative side effects.
It might help. Worst case you're out a little bit of cash. Probably not even that much cash.
I don't take it personally, but that's just because I know exactly what sort of addictive personality I have not because I don't think it would do me any good. A loooooooot of people do take it. It's not a moral failing or anything like that.
It might help. Worst case you're out a little bit of cash. Probably not even that much cash.
I don't take it personally, but that's just because I know exactly what sort of addictive personality I have not because I don't think it would do me any good. A loooooooot of people do take it. It's not a moral failing or anything like that.
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