Please help-anyone..scared to death

[southern girl]

I was wondering if anyone could help me,I am absolute nervous wreck over a situation that was not my fault and I have not not for 2 weeks worrying over this. I am being treating by my Primary Care physician for stage 4 endometriosis and fibromyalgia,he prescribes low does-at my request because I am scared of high doses of actemenaphin and liver damage..Well 2 weeks ago a huge golf ball size and VERY painful lump came up under left ear near jaw..I assumed it was a lymph gland and my husband called my dr to ask if I could be seen or prescribed an antibiotic..They informed him my PCP was out of town,nobody could see me or prescribe anything and if I needed treatment go to Urgent Care.By that Sat the lump was even bigger,pain so bad I could barely touch my face with water..I then went to Urgent Care (as they had advised) and the DR said it was something very rare,almost never seen-he diagnosed it as a Preauricular Cyst that was infected..I am still not 100% sure that is what it is since I still have lumps and pain 2 weeks after the in office 3 hour surgery he attempted to perfom on me to remove it..Then he admitted he could not remove it so in his words he would "bust it to H*ll and back" and break it up and put a drainage tube in my incision (one of the 2 incisions he had made) to drain the "cyst". He then said I would be in some pretty incredible pain once the anesthesia wore off and after what he had done to (imagine nearly 3 hours of pounding in my head with needles and scalpels)..so he then gave me several scripts to fill,one was for a 4 day supply of pain meds,stronger dose than what I normally take and also antibiotics..told me to come back in 3 days for drain removal and a week for suture removal. when I got in the car I looked at the 3 day script for vicodin and told my husband not to fill it just put it on file and pick up my regular norcos which I was due for that day anyway..He insisted I should follow the drs orders and get the 3 day supply of the stronger ones instead..The only reason he then went to a different pharmacy than I normally use was because we short on cash and my daddy was wiring money to us from Ga to California at Walmart that day to help cover drs visit and prescriptions,I normally use CVS..so when i used up the 3 day supply I got my usual prescription for Norcos filled at CVS. when I saw the dr for drainage tube removal they said it looked pretty bad and admitted he was not sure what it was and I should see a surgeon next..then they offered me a script for more pain meds and I REFUSED it..I am NOT dr shopping or trying to do anything illegal,.I am one of those people who worry too much about everything,especially since I worked in medical for 20 years I know how the think everyone is a "drug seeker",I am NOT and live in fear of them thinking that about me..Now I am have panic attacks thinking the Ca DEA division will "red flag" me or contact my PCP and tell him I was dr shopping,I was NOT..I only did what his office told me to do-go to Urgent Care because he was out of town.. I have not in 4 years seen any dr or got any prescriptions from any dr but him,so am I in trouble? I did not intentionally do anything "illegal" and cannot help the dr gave me the 3 day supply of vicodin 5/500, I was able to get my next refill for norco filled 4 days later with no problem..it has been over 2 weeks now and I am still having major panic attacks thinking my dr will dismiss me as a patient or the DEA will show up at my door and haul me to jail for 20 years.I keep thinking the worst possible scenarios. My family thinks I am totally nuts because I did nothing wrong and I keep trying to get him to call my PCP and tell him what happened and he says "no you have done nothing wrong,he will think you are crazy if you call him".He says if the issue comes up he will then help me explain the whoe situation to my dr with all the paperwork from Urgent Care.. please tell me if you think I am already "red flagged" for just a one time prescription from a differnt physician? thank you so much in advance.

 

[HaZeX]

Your fine. Just tell your PCP the urgent care DR gave you a stronger RX because your current RX wasn't doing the Job, as you do have a new problem. In reality you should not have picked your PCP's refills and should of only continued with the urgent care dr RX's right now. But it's not a big deal, IMO. The DEA is not going to come knocking at your door, nor are you red flagged.

If you do need something stronger, show your PCP the RX from urgent care and tell him that is working best, your PCP might even offer to write you that RX. Or just stay with the RX's from Urgent Care.

 

[southern girl]

Thank you so much! I already feel like a ton has been lifted off of my shoulders by your reply. The reason I picked up my normally shceduled refill was because I was out of the 3 day supply I was given at Urgent Care,the it was later that same day he tried to give me more of the stronger dose and also another script for naprosyn.He already had mentioned my pain was "under controlled" by my PCP for the conditions he is seeing me for. I refused to take anymore meds from the Urgent Care DR because I did not want to get in trouble with my PCP, I feel I already have a strained relationship with him as it is due to the way he "talks down to me" at times and does not seem to listen when I try to talk to him about fibro symptoms etc and I sure do not want to ruin my relationship with him and get dismissed by his practice for any reason. I have read too much crap online saying it sounded like i was "DR shopping" and they would show up at my door and haul me off to jail at any minute! The last thing on earth I would do is "dr shop",I mean seriously why on earth would I risk everything over 20 vicodin when I could have picked up a prescription that day for 120? I really did not want to fill the RX out of fear of it raising red flags but my husband and the dr both insistes I would need something stronger than what I was being prescribed. Thank you so much for replying.I have been a wreck with all this big-brother creathing down our backs going on.