PhantomPain
Greenlighter
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- Apr 14, 2015
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I read the PDF and it reminded me of Military training PDF classes lol. But from what I understand, this 'red flag' would typically only pertain to someone who is obtaining a script potentially illegitimately(hard to know I guess). Now.. if someone has a legitimate script from a provider for a controlled substance, and that said person preferred a certain brand, based off of historical use I don't think that should raise any concern. I say this as an opinion, I really don't think a red flag should come up, and I say this in my personal history. My doc prescribes me with 100mcg/hr Fentanyl every 48 hours, and 4mg Hydromorphone (Dilaudid ofc) 4-6 hr as needed, however i've been on that for about 4 years ish. Recently my pain has been so crazy that I had to check-in to the ER and be admitted because I couldn't do anything at home, or any functional work. Before, my pharmacy gave me the Sandoz brand, as I was on 75mcg/hr of Fentanyl, but now that i'm on the 100mcg they give me the Actavis brand which both are Generic? I think, as Duragesic is the brand name I believe.
More to my point, I much prefer the Sandoz brand for personal reasons, and much more so because they don't fall off like these Actavis ones do! The Actavis 100mcg are actually smaller proportionally, but they are the gel reservoir patches vs the matrix style that Sandoz has adopted. Anyways, meh!
More to my point, I much prefer the Sandoz brand for personal reasons, and much more so because they don't fall off like these Actavis ones do! The Actavis 100mcg are actually smaller proportionally, but they are the gel reservoir patches vs the matrix style that Sandoz has adopted. Anyways, meh!