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Hhmmm..that's a puzzler....yeah I'd want to know why too. See, I'd think it impossible to take 5 a day without having to get up after I've gone to bed to take one. My day starts anywhere from 2-5am (depending on when internal vibrations wake me, was 3:00 this morning) and even being up 15 hours that would be a pill every 3 hours, if taking max 5 a day. I took one at 3 then I'll do another at 10, depending on how back is after some major cleaning, if bad, I'll do at 9. Then the other will be at either 4 or 5 and that will be it because I'll be in bed by 7 or 8 and won't take another until I get up following morning. But yeah, it certainly seems like your doctor should have given you reason for change. Do you do urine test when you go? If so and you've taken them as you should, that level meds should show up in the test. If taking more than should, not saying YOU are, just using as example, it will also show a higher than normal level. Hope you get sufficient answers.
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Hi Carol! I had my phone call appointment with my doctor today and she is really there for me!! She told me the doctors were being pressured to lower the dosage for people that were on meds like Hydrocodon and try to even get them off of those medication‘s. And she told me, in her opinion, “people that were not medical doctors or people that did not have chronic pain had no business telling people that were involved with people like me what or how to prescribe medication.” She said she was going to put me back on the dosage that I had been on before that was working for me and that if anybody question that she was going to say that she tried backing me off and I was in much too much pain and she put me back on the previous prescription. She said if they had issues with the monthly amount that I was being given she was going to break it down into a two week prescription so that I would be able to get exactly what I needed to get without having to worry about months have been 28 days in them or 31 days in them. I am totally blown away by how much she is willing to do for me because of the amount of pain that I am in.
I don’t know exactly who is pressuring her… I am with an HMO so maybe it is the business end of the company.
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Yes, I usually get a urine test as well as a blood test. A few months ago my Doctor wasn’t available to refill the Hydrocodone so an associate of hers did and refilled it at this lower amount. I happened to be having an in office appointment with my doctor and told her I wanted back at the higher amount because I do need every pill for pain and so she did at that time… And now I’m having to deal with the same thing again.