Theft

[IainH]

So, does that mean your meds were replaced?

Yes. 
     Is your husband prescribed OxyCONTIN? I used to take 3 60mg/day the insurance balked and I was prescribed 2 80mg apparently the per pill cost was the same so one 60mg and one 80mg cost the same?huh?. Then I was laid off. My insurance now is through my wife who's employer was bought out by UNC Healthcare totalitarian assholes who won't pay for Oxycontin which was the best, now I take 5 30mgs/day OxyCODONE which is a Painocoaster. They refused to pay for my shoulder surgery after APPROVING IT! !! So now bill collectors are after me for $15,600. Good Luck ask Obama. As the late Ola Mae Smith, a little old lady I worked with in the 80's once blurted "you can't get butter from a turtle". She meant blood turnip but she sorta flubbed it so I started saying the above quote. She was good about it though and like many older people who would rather continue to work than "sit around the house doin' nothin'", I was told years later that she worked until she had a stroke and didn't last long after that. God was merciful and I suspect I'll laugh with her again some day. Little old ladies were fun to work with, most of the time they would quietly do there jobs, then suddenly explode if you goosed them "I'M A-GONNA GIT YOU, YOU SO & SO!" Granny Bombs were hilarious when I was 20something.
PS. Oxycontin has been severely demonized. For people with chronic pain, gradual release PK's are a Godsend and bring relief continuously instead of having to plan your day around the ups and downs of instant release. When I work evening shift at BRCC, I take one in the morning and have to wait six hours to take my next because I have to have consistent relief at work. After 3 hours the railroad spike in my hip starts bugging and the sciatic nerve goes HEY REMEMBER ME!?! At 4 hours my neck says HELLO, WE BRING GIFTS TO YOUR FINGERTIPS WITH PITSTOPS DOWN YOUR ARMS!? Maybe I'll get the Peyton Manning surgery when I reach Medicare if it still exists. Medicare that is.

[forrealone]

No, they  only give him 260 for 90 days of 7.5mg oxycodone.  Thats 2.88 pills per day.  It barely touches/helps his pain.  If he wants/needs more, then he will have to go to a pain mgmt clinic and there they will be taskmasters, want him to pee in a cup and treat him like a drug addict.  It is pitiful.  And disgusting.

[IainH]

No, they  only give him 260 for 90 days of 7.5mg oxycodone.  Thats 2.88 pills per day.  It barely touches/helps his pain.  If he wants/needs more, then he will have to go to a pain mgmt clinic and there they will be taskmasters, want him to pee in a cup and treat him like a drug addict.  It is pitiful.  And disgusting.

You need to get him to a courageous sympathetic Doctor. That is the most scandalous thing I have ever heard. Tip, do not John Wayne the thing sir. Your pain is 11. To get what you need you can't low ball it. Pain management clinics are the worst I went twice for spine shots. They told me I could go back to work, I did and lasted 25 minutes. I go to my regular Doctor, I've been seeing for twenty years he knew me before when I was ha ha indestructible! It helps if you find a Doctor who is personally familiar, my Docs wife has had two failed back surgeries. If I was your old man and I hate say this on the 19th anniversary of my sobriety, I'd drink too. Oh man! That PM clinic is cold.

[forrealone]

Well, unfortunately, hubby will not go to another doctor. He sees two different oncologists up at UNC Chapel Hill 5 times a year. He has been through so much and has had several medical mistakes happen to him. I guess he will have to deal with what is. Thanks for you understanding!