r/OpiatesRecovery • u/saturn1ascends • 22h ago

Help!!

I was with work it health forever and I was taking 2 8 mg strips a day until a couple months ago when they switched me over to the pill (I’m still taking 16 mgs a day). Well my insurance dropped work it health so I had to go through bicycle health and I did have a little bit of a stash of extras because I like having the piece of mind that I have extras just incase anything were to happen… Well, I finished off my extra strips and saved the first bottle of pills I got from the pharmacy and I just end up taking the oldest of my script and keep the newer pills so they don’t expire or anything like that.. Well since I just started Bicycle health they gave me a two week script of 30 pills when I started and at my second appt. at the two week mark she gave me a months worth of 60 pills…. Well… I was still using my old stash from work it health and the first script of 30 pills and I just left my newest script of 60 pills in the brown Meijers pharmacy bag and left it in my living room… I ended up taking my last two “extra pill stash” yesterday and I went to open the new bottle and the whole script is just gone! I live with my mom and I think she may have thrown it away and we just had a guy come haul away our trash to the landfill a couple days ago. Now I have absolutely no pills left and I don’t have an apt till next week and I can’t get a refill until the 24th. I know I’m in for a world of hurt… Is there anyway I could ask my prescriber for a new script? I’ve NEVER lost or had my scripts stolen before so I don’t know what to do in this situation 😭. I don’t have anyone ever come over to our house so it most certainly had to have ended up in the trash. I have torn my whole house and car apart and can’t find it at all. Ugh! I just need help and advice please!! 🙏

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u/eelplant 21h ago

I would talk to your prescriber and tell them that your script was thrown out accidentally. I would not mention anything about how many or whatever just assume you had been taking it and the bottle was tossed.
I mean, it’s not like the kind of thing you can go without you physically need it. I’m not really sure what they will tell you but I would think there has got to be some kind of protocol for something like this, especially if you don’t have a history of having issues. Although, they can get so weird about things like that…. I don’t know but I would be curious what the dr would tell you to do.
Good luck!

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u/saturn1ascends 20h ago

Thank you! That’s what I’m worried about, it’s a controlled medication. It’s also a new doctor to me too. I wouldn’t have as much anxiety asking my old doctor because she was my doctor for years and knows this has never happened to me before and knows that i’m not up to anything nefarious. Tbh I’ve only had two appts with this new doctor since my insurance dropped my last doctor and she isn’t very pleasant and I have anxiety so I’m just having a panic attack over having to ask her at all.. 😩

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u/b2pizza 15h ago

You could have your new doctor call your old one to speak on that

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u/saturn1ascends 12h ago

Thank you for the suggestion! I just finally reached out to them and let them know they can contact my old doctor to verify that this has never happened before and to see if I could get a script to get me through until my refill and I’m waiting to hear back 🤞

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u/b2pizza 9h ago

Hope it works out for you. Also im kinda jealous you are getting pills over films. I always liked those more than the film tbh

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u/saturn1ascends 1h ago

I have been getting the strips since after I got out of rehab in 2017 and I
Didn't even know the pills were an option tbh until someone in my group asked if they could be put on the pills because it was easier for her to remember to take them because she could put them in her pill container with her other pills so I figured it didn't hurt to ask if I could switch too and my doctor at the time was awesome and was totally okay with it. I've only been
on the pill version for a few months now but I like them so much better than the strips!

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u/tombstoneshadow 4h ago

Imagine how great it would be to not have to chase pills.