UpInFlames
Bluelighter
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- Sep 3, 2015
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Well,lets just say Wisconsin's new narcotics database is up and running, and wow, does it need some work.
I went into an urgent care place today because I threw my back out but good last night and my doc's out of town.
Got examined, doc agreed that it was a pinched nerve, and toddled off to fax in RXs for some tramadol and robaxin.
Not 30 seconds later, she came storming back into the exam room, and YELLED, "I don't appreciate not getting complete information. I can't prescribe pain meds because you're on buprenorphine!"
Once i picked my jaw off the floor, and denied being on bupe, I asked her exactly what the database entry said.
That's when it came out that the pharmacy that dispensed the bupe was PET Apothecary, the compounding, veterinary only pharmacy that makes up Thomas the Maine Coon cat's pain meds for his arthritis.
I explained that to the doc, who VERY grudgingly sent in the RXs. When i got home from picking them up, I called Pet Apothecary and asked them what was up. The pharmacist there went ballistic. Seems when the laws in WI changed, they tried to get an exemption. No dice.
So, anyone in WI who gets controlled substances for a pet goes into the narcotics database, and there's no way to remove the info, or add a comment stating that the med was for a pet.
I now have the head compounding pharmacist's personal number, so that any doc or pharmacist who questions the bupe issue can call him to get an explanation.
My heart goes out to all the addicts who are trying so hard to get clean, and are running into awfulness much worse than what I ran into today. The change in this doctor's entire demeanor was stunning. She went from sweet and sympathetic, to sounding like she needed a stick to scrape me off her shoe.
I can say, that in the case of cats, bupe is a phenomenal pain killer, though it does make Thomas nod off without warning.
I went into an urgent care place today because I threw my back out but good last night and my doc's out of town.
Got examined, doc agreed that it was a pinched nerve, and toddled off to fax in RXs for some tramadol and robaxin.
Not 30 seconds later, she came storming back into the exam room, and YELLED, "I don't appreciate not getting complete information. I can't prescribe pain meds because you're on buprenorphine!"
Once i picked my jaw off the floor, and denied being on bupe, I asked her exactly what the database entry said.
That's when it came out that the pharmacy that dispensed the bupe was PET Apothecary, the compounding, veterinary only pharmacy that makes up Thomas the Maine Coon cat's pain meds for his arthritis.
I explained that to the doc, who VERY grudgingly sent in the RXs. When i got home from picking them up, I called Pet Apothecary and asked them what was up. The pharmacist there went ballistic. Seems when the laws in WI changed, they tried to get an exemption. No dice.
So, anyone in WI who gets controlled substances for a pet goes into the narcotics database, and there's no way to remove the info, or add a comment stating that the med was for a pet.
I now have the head compounding pharmacist's personal number, so that any doc or pharmacist who questions the bupe issue can call him to get an explanation.
My heart goes out to all the addicts who are trying so hard to get clean, and are running into awfulness much worse than what I ran into today. The change in this doctor's entire demeanor was stunning. She went from sweet and sympathetic, to sounding like she needed a stick to scrape me off her shoe.
I can say, that in the case of cats, bupe is a phenomenal pain killer, though it does make Thomas nod off without warning.