RE: Filling Prescriptions in Texas
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Posted by Willy on June 28, 2000 at 01:23:42:
Possibly someone could give me some advice about prescriptions and about having the medication filled. I was injured in a motorcycle accident 19-years ago and have been taking some type of pain medication since that time for compressed vertebra discs, fractured hips and pelvic that cause severe pain in my back and neck. The pain specialist that I see started seeing 2-months ago has prescribed three 40-mg tablets of oxycontin to be taken each day. The doctor initially gave me a prescription for 100 tables for the thirty-day time period. The problem is when I had the prescription filled at a Texas pharmacy the druggist would only give me 90 tablets of the prescription because he said the insurance would only pay for 90 tables. I told the druggist that would be fine and I would pay for the other 10 tables. When I asked for the prescription back he said since the prescription had already been filled he could not give me the other 10 tables or give me the prescription back. My question is can he legally do what he did? I barely get by on the three 40-mg tables per day. I live 175 miles away from the doctor and have enough trouble taking off one-day a month to start with, and if I have no medication I can not work.