Narcotic Regulations

At my monthly appointment for refill (hydrocodone) today my physician told me that new gov regulations will soon be going in to effect dictating that only hospice patients will be able to receive narcotic pain killers on a month to month basis. Has any one else heard this?

I am guessing this is your GP telling you this stuff. If I am correct about this he is doing what most have already done & thats stop rxing pain medication long term to his patients. There are different guidelines drs are going by when rxiing pain meds to chronic pain patients. GPs do not like all of the red tape, they do not like to be monitored & having someone breath down their neck plus they worry about losing their license to practice medicine. This is all very much a real thing, however, this has been going on for a good 3 years or longer.Things are getting tighter & more restrictive no less. Rather than tell you hey I am not going to give you any more pain medication & have you get mad it was easier to tell you the story he did & not have to listen to any grief out of you. Do yourself a favor, if you suffer with chronic pain ask to be referred to a pain mgt specialist.

Take care.

You also need to set up an appointment as soon as possible. I love my doctor, and it appears others do as well. For the new patient appointment there was a 3 month wait. Well worth it, but I also had specialists willing to prescribe meds during that time.

Let us now how it goes.

I've done the same thing for various appointments. Many of my Drs scan them into my file.