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.