How bad is it in Florida?
I had surgery 17 days ago and the hospital gave me Tylenol and Celebrex.
WTF?! I thought they had the good stuff in the hospitals!

Not here anymore. You were either injured before the crackdown and got grandfathered in, or your out. Your not gonna get any narcotic painkillers prescribed by anyone no matter what the issue.The pain starts when you look at the receipt how much they charged you for those tylenol. Mine was $52 for a 325 asperin. Where we live (FL) Normal Dr.s can't prescribe C2's anymore, you have to goto a pain mng specialist registered with the DEA, city, and state. And funny enough they moved Vicoden and Percoset the most used painkiller from C3's to C2's now so even getting vicoden is hard from a normal Dr. The Dr.s can prescribe the C2's but the state and DEA don't want them too and if they do will shut them down for running an unlicensed pain mng office. Careful with the Celebrex and Cymbalta. They advertise these as non-narcotic but just take em for a month then stop and tell me that. You'll be fainting, passing out, blacking out, etc... If you do need chronic pain mng PM and I'll refer you to my Dr. she'll take you on as a patient if I recommend you.

 

They'll probably bill you for the good stuff!!

No the good stuff is much cheaper then tylenol. A morphine tablet costs around $0.50 a Tylenol costs around $50.

 

If you do need chronic pain mng PM and I'll refer you to my Dr. she'll take you on as a patient if I recommend you.

Umm...thanks, but not right now. One surgery every 25 or so years does not a chronic make. I'm just pist about sitting up all night waiting for the drugs I never got to kick in.

Geeze! You go where the best, safest, cleanest, drugs in the world have an excuse to be used on you, and you can do better by going home and having a beer! If this trend keeps up, they're going to be reduced to using lobotomy to keep the patients from reacting to pain. Stuff this. If I ever have to do that again, I'm holding out for a drug pump, and I get the button!

 

NP as you know from the news finding a legit pain Dr. is really hard and the legit ones typically won't see people if they aren't referred from another known Dr. or referred by a respected patient.

Also remember you can all the hospital you had your surgery at and tell them your having pain problems. Usually they will give you something.

 

Dude, you're barking at a problem that was over a week ago.
Nothing left but an itchy scab and a bad attitude.

 

HAHAHAH well at least your better, thats worth it.