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Originally Posted by oldcarp
What gets me is that they are forcing you to take medication even if you dont need to take it. So I guess you cant get a script anymore that says " take as needed for pain" Instead, if the script says "take 1 pill 4 times a day" then that means you have to take 1 pill 4 times a day if you need it or not. Because when they test your blood/urine you HAVE to have a certain amount of the prescribed drug in your system or they think that your selling it and they will stop writing you prescriptions and cut you off and remove you from their clinic. THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG and we need congress to change this system!!!
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What is totally wrong is that Congress, the DEA, or insurance companies are involved in the practice of medicine at all. Pain management, like every other kind of medicine, is and should be a matter between doctor and patient, and no-one else.
http://www.aapsonline.org/painman/pbmaterials.htm
Many prescriptions for pain medications are written, "as needed"; others are written, "up to x times a day" and various other ways. However there comes a point, or situations, when round the clock medication is medically warranted, and only those prescriptions are written that way. For patients in chronic pain, medications work better when taken as early in the pain cycle as possible, and/or when maintained at certain levels in the bloodstream.
Large pain management clinics require testing to protect themselves and their other patients from political witch-hunts. It is less common with doctors who have/take the time to know their patients well.
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