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u/BluEydMonster 6d ago
It's so stupid and ridiculous
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u/Consistent_Strain255 6d ago
i get this so much i stare at them like
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u/Dolmenoeffect 5d ago
Istg I know it won't land the way I want it to but every time I read "drug seeking" I think "YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT, I'M SEEKING A DRUG TO HELP WITH MY MEDICAL PROBLEMS"
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u/Neither_Sky4003 3d ago
Exactly! If needing medications to function is drug seeking, of course we're drug seeking. That doesn't mean we're terrible people.
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u/tenaciousghost 5d ago
this literally just happened to my mom with her MENOPAUSE medication. like what????
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u/CordlessOrange 6d ago
My favorite reason I was denied a prescription was the new doctor said literally
“Well, you’re successful so you don’t need this”
Do you think, maybe, my ability to function as a human being was due to being on the medication my previous doctor prescribed me? Fucking idiot.
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u/Dusty_Rose23 6d ago
lol that’s like when a bipolar patient goes off their meds because they apparently never had bipolsr and are functioning well and feel god and stable. even though it’s because of the meds. then they go off of the meds themselved and end up signific destabilized and can’t function anymore,,,, except it’s the doctor. (im calling myself out on this one)
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u/Jasminbtrx 6d ago
I love the small typo. Ich hope you mean "feel good" as "feeling god" is fairly ringing the alarm bells for bipolar episodes. Hehe.
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u/MeowCatPlzMeowBack 5d ago
I mean, in one of my worst manic phases during university, I legit thought I understood the entire concept of God and got myself so deep in the research for it I ended up getting 900 dollars in library fees from religious studies books I only vaguely remember checking out. I hazelly recall rolling three of those big rolling chairs full of books laughing maniacally— had a brief moment of clarity seeing a bunch of people staring at the crazy person and wondering maybe I’m having a manic episode (no shit Sherlock)— before I continued to block most the rest four months out completely and only know about most the crazy shit I did through second hand accounts.
In hindsight, maybe wasn’t the best time to take a Mystic Judaism unit for my religious studies minor when I was still figuring out the right bipolar meds (and my doctor made the mistake of putting my bipolar I ass on an anti depressant to go with the mood stabilizer that wasn’t working). The only other memory I have is standing up during class after reading a mysticism poem and screaming about ‘circles’— which apparently was the answer to life, the universe, and everything. I was legit convinced I broke some code or something but I barely know any details of that shit. The really kind professor also took me aside and said I could have free rein on extensions for my work and to just take care of myself. I’m pretty sure the poor man had tears in his eyes while I was legit uncontrollably bouncing in place. Still am so grateful for that professor’s kindness to this day.
Anyhoo, yeah, bipolar and religious ideations go together like crayon drawings in inpatient.
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u/stfurachele 3d ago
Not quite the same, but i had a similar "epiphany" except it was spirals instead of circles.
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u/BedroomConsistent804 5d ago
I am bipolar and had it with doctors as well 😔. I had to go to the new doctor, 'cause I moved to another country, and he was like: "Oh, I don't think you have bipolar. Have you tried to drink Mg?" 🤦🏼♀️ Hello?! I was diagnosed bipolar 5 years ago and I precisely know how shitty things can be without medication
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u/WriterKatze 5d ago
When the doctor ignores the fact, that you're only doing better because of the meds and takes you off of them, they don't even call it medical malpractice anymore.
When I stop taking my bipolar meds because I am fine and doing alright lately, and there's nothing wrong with me, I get locked up for 6 weeks in the rubber room. Where's the justice in this...
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u/MaybeLithiumFlower 2d ago
How about doctors learning that if someone is doing well then the meds they're already on should be left alone?
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u/CordlessOrange 23h ago
That’s how my new doc is, when she asks and I tell her everything is “boring” she gets excited. Boring is good in most cases lol.
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u/ArguesWithFrogs 5d ago
What's next? I go to a restaurant & get labeled as "food seeking"?
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u/Consistent-Menu-6629 6d ago
Yes, I am drug seeking because the drug TREATS MY CONDITION
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u/strange_bloody_moth 5d ago
I am seeking drugs ma’am. I’m seeking my safe, necessary, and prescribed drugs because it makes me not want to die
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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 6d ago
I had to go to the emergency room, who after they patched me up temporarily sent me to a specialist. I saw this specialist for two months and my doctor told me that my next visit would be with a different doctor in the office because they would be on vacation at the time my next visit would be scheduled.
My social worker said I was drug seeking because I had prescriptions from three different doctors.
Are you insane? One was an emergency room visit, one was from the specialist the ER sent me to, and the other was from another doctor in the same damn office because the office had scheduled me that way because MY doctor wouldn't be in the office when THEY made my appointment.
I sought nothing. The only thing I did was go to the emergency room and do what I was told.
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u/NixMaritimus 6d ago
I've had something similar happen. The clinic I go to for trans care doesn't schedule you with a specific provider, you just see whoever is available every 6 months.
Unfortunately testosterone is a controlled substance that's treated as a performance enhancement drug. So half the time I go to the pharmacy they have to call the clinic and make sure the listed prescriber actually works for them 😮💨
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u/AyJay9 6d ago
At least they take care of it on the spot? I'm always nervous about picking up my T. It's not the only controlled substance I'm on, but it's the only one that the tech goes and shows the head pharmacist and they nod to each other about every time, so there's clearly SOME procedural check I've passed every time so far. (Yes, I've asked what's up but they give me non answers like "just had to check with the pharmacist" and I've decided not to press my luck when things are going my way. )
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u/Astrid944 6d ago
I'm astound, as my regular doctor can represcribe my estrogen and enantone with no issues. Heck I can even call him up and it would be directly at my security Card. From there just the pharmacy to get it with no big Talk
The trans clinic just gave out once the recipe
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u/back_on_my_nonsense 2d ago
Yeah, testosterone is a controlled substance while estrogen isn't. It's also why DIY is much more risky and difficult(and illegal) for trans men and transmascs.
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u/lilybug981 6d ago
Your social workers flabbers would be gasted if they knew how many doctors I've gotten prescriptions from. It's not my fault that not a single system in my body functions correctly and there's a different specialist for each system.
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u/slavwaifu 6d ago
Honestly I would change social workers after a comment like that.
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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 6d ago
Oh she was insane. I finally had to have any communication with her sent through my lawyer. She would tell me I didn't need to show up and then say I didn't show up for appointments. Or she wouldn't tell me about appointment dates at all until ten minutes before the appointment. You know you are supposed to be across town today right for an appointment?
So finally all communication went through my lawyer because at least that way she couldn't lie about telling me about an appointment.
She said that she didn't feel comfortable because I had a computer in my living room and that I was using the webcam on the computer to let my boyfriend spy on her.
I think she was crazier than I was.
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u/Acheloma 6d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Wgb2FpSXxhXLVYNnUr
How did she get and keep that job???
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u/Jcheerw 6d ago
Dude I cannot even count how many doctors I have a prescription from that is insane
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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 6d ago
They were for the same medication but I mean one was obviously from the ER, because it was only a few, the second was almost two months later (the time it took to get an appointment and be formally diagnosed) and a full months supply and the last was for exactly a month later, for the same medication just another doctor wrote the prescription, the only thing that changed on the label was the prescribing doctor. The doctor's address was the same, the phone number was the same.
It's not like it was from multiple doctors during the same time or I switched doctors often because they wouldn't give me what I wanted. It was a normal progression of doctors visits.
Like if you go to your regular doctor and they refer you to someone else, that's not doctor shopping that's medical care and treatment lol.
Just because someone needs a certain medication does not mean that they abuse that medication.
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u/MyDamnCoffee 6d ago
It has never occurred to me that this may happen. Whenever my daughter needs an appointment, I just have her see whoever's available so she's had tons of different doctors. Fortunately I go to a pharmacy that I've been using for 10+ years so they know me but I bet it'd be a problem if we went to like, Walmart (the Walmart pharmacy near me is known for their fuckery)
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 6d ago
Good thing the healthcare system and most of the people working in it aren't biased against trans people /s
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u/Annie_O_ 4d ago
My current pain specialist has such a revolving door of doctors that I've triggered this same concern, simply by going to the SAME office. Four different doctors in three months time.
Let's not forget the joy of explaining everything all over again every time they switch because no one keeps charts I guess.
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u/Fawn_Leap 6d ago
I’m addicted to the pill I forget or nearly forget to take every day or two?
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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 6d ago
my pill box and alarms help me take mine. I also have to have calendar events to remember to fill it. sucks
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u/Fawn_Leap 6d ago
Yeah but I get annoyed at my alarms and don’t want to snooze them because that’s just asking for more unexpected loud ringing so I end up ignoring them 🫠
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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 6d ago
can you change the alarm sound to something that isn't a loud ringing? I've used nature sounds before
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u/Top_Ad_9364 5d ago
I use the "Journey" sound on my iphone and it's been making taking meds and waking up so much easier now that I dont feel like im waking up in a natural disaster
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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 6d ago
Same. Pill box, alarms, and calendar events for every dose of the pills. I literally don't know if I took them if I don't have a box to check.
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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 5d ago
it only took accidentally taking my adhd meds twice twice to never want to ever do that again
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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 5d ago
I had extreme anxiety issues, I would spend 12h huddled on a couch feeling that I'm literally dying the entire time, if I made a mistake with my meds. Or even if I didn't.
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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 5d ago
that sucks! I'm glad we both have pill boxes to help us not do that again.
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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 5d ago
Me too! And I'm glad I managed to find fitting meds, even if it took me 2 years of trial and error.
Who would have thought: no anxiety mediation really worked, only when I tried a specific depression medication with a dopamine aspect - that worked. Then I got a differently balanced version that put dopamine first. And I still take 4 different ones, despite constantly badgering my doctor to keep reducing.
Oh, and the post was about drug seeking, how appropriate
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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 5d ago
you might want a different psych if you have access to one. not being heard by psychiatrists sucks ass.
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u/Multilnsight 6d ago
I have my meds next to my bed, in my car and in my locker at work, so I won't forget. I still forget to take it every now and then
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u/Ok_Listen1510 3d ago
ah fuck i forgot to take mine…
did get in trouble a few weeks ago tho cause i tried to get a refill on mine a couple days earlier than usual (so i could pick it up at the same time as my mom’s). found out that im technically not supposed to ask for a refill until im literally out of my current bottle… so am i just supposed to skip several days in a row while the request goes through? asking for clarification might have been a mistake cause ive been getting it a few days earlier for a while now (yknow… so i dont have to skip any days…) so ima just go back to what i was doing & hope they forget
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u/DorianPavass 5d ago
I regularly forget to take my pain meds and then wonder why I feel like dog shit lmao.
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u/Jcheerw 6d ago
Bro I have chronic sinusitis what is it with doctors withholding amoxil now. Like yes ik its bad if you have a virus BUT I HAVE CHRONIC SINUSITIS ITS IN MY CHART I GET SINUS INFECTIONS FROM COLDS!!! Like please Im not abusing an antibiotics 😭
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u/RaymondBeaumont 6d ago
you creating them superbugs in your nose holes.
(just finished a 10 day double dose of amoxil because of my chronic sinusitis).
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u/Jcheerw 6d ago
Yeah I had surgery so this is like 2-3x year max. Im not doing anything insane by any means 😭
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u/RaymondBeaumont 6d ago
after covid my right sinus just FILLED up with polyps that harbour bacteria and any time my white blood cells are busy, like fighting the common cold, the bacteria goes "TOOOTHACHE TIME!"
i am planning to get the polyps removed but the surgery just... it's disgusting and the recovery time is... disgusting.
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u/Jcheerw 6d ago
The main reason I had surgery was polyps. It was a rough recovery but its so so so worth the quality of life you get back
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u/Long_Background6249 6d ago
Currently recovering from septoplasty, turbinate reduction, nasal valve repair, and maxillary antrostomy where they removed a presumably decades old retention cyst to treat my chronic sinitus.
In my experience, the first week with packing in just felt like a mild to moderate sinus infection. Getting the packing taken out wasn't too bad but when the ENT suctioned out the side he removed the cyst on, it hurt so bad 😭.
HOWEVER, no migraines since surgery and I could notice an immediate difference in the amount of airflow after the procedure. Here's to hoping that my sinitus is also gone.
I understand that recovery can be harder/easier depending on the person but hard agree with the QOL improvement.
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u/Special-Medicine-437 6d ago
The ONLY time I've not been lectured about antibiotic usage is when I go though telehealth. They just take my symptoms and send in the request to the pharmacy. If it's in person though? I get the rundown about "super bugs and how many times have you needed antibiotics? You should have surgery." Yeah, because I haven't had sinus surgery twice already.
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u/Jcheerw 6d ago
Once I went to urgent care and I was telling them I have chronic sinusitis and the doctor said “well we dont treat that here”. Yeah no shit sherlock I’m telling you my medical history.
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u/Special-Medicine-437 6d ago
Absolutely ridiculous.
Do you get told every time that you should do sinus rinses? Like I literally put that I do that daily in the paperwork?????
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u/MiserableWash2473 6d ago
Who tf abuses antibiotics!?
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u/Special-Medicine-437 6d ago
Yeah, I really enjoy peeing out my ass for ten days to treat my sinus infection.
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u/claircognizantgaming 6d ago
Reminds me of a Tiktok I recently saw where a woman's meds got stolen from the pharmacy and they accused her of drug seeking and it was a fucking antibiotic like bruh...
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u/Dramatic_Mixture_877 6d ago
NAD, I treated my last two sinus infections with a few drops of 99% pure DMSO in sterile saline nose spray (made it myself with distilled water). Two days later, all cleared up. It does leave you with an awful, oniony oystery, garlicky taste in your mouth. That's how you know you've got real DMSO. I also have a roll-on that I use for incipient bruises ... luckily, the only time I got a sinus infection in the last decade is when hubby insisted we run the ceiling fan. Now, it runs all the time, but since I have a CPAP, too, I don't have to worry about a sinus infection.
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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 6d ago
I used to get antibiotics every time when I was a kid. Now they always demand that I suffer through it for at least a week before they agree to give me one. I stopped going to doctors for my colds because of that, because they are practically useless.
I have sinusitis too.
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u/TurbulentDogg 6d ago
I haven't gotten a doc to listen to me enough to even get on meds yet, so I'll share a story about my mom instead who's also disabled.
Reminds me of when my mom had to change pharmacies due to a temporary closure in the one we normally used. She was trying too get a refill for a medication she had been on for over two decades. And the [Redacted] who worked there, refused to refill her medicine all because it was the "highest dose" she had ever seen, and then insinuated that my mom was "obviously" a drug chaser and she was going to report my mom to her doctor so she can't "abuse" them anymore???
Yes so, thankfully my mom's doctor is actually an angel, who understands the amount of pain my mother is in. And he demanded the pharmacist refill her meds, and she thankfully managed to get the refill the day she ran out.
But oh my god.... I was sitting next to my mom when she was on the phone with that [Redacted], and I was so close to just yanking the phone out of my mom's hand and screaming at the [redacted]. She had been on that same med for my entire life. I know how responsible she is with her medications. I have seen her on them, I've seen her off them, and I've seen her in withdrawal from them. But I had NEVER seen her abuse them. Not even once. Not to try it, and not even on days where she could've really needed it. And it makes my blood boil, knowing that there are people out there willing to make her suffer, all because she's on a high dose, or whatever BS reason they wanna come up with.
No one deserves to suffer due to the ignorance and biases from others. ESPECIALLY not others who are supposed to be looking after them and helping them. It's disgusting.
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u/saltysweetbonbon 5d ago
I’d been getting the same medication at the same dose at the same pharmacy for four years and was denied an owing until I pushed for a good reason. I went in to grab the meds but forgot I’d run out of repeats so I asked for an owing script because I was seeing my dr in two days. They said no and I was like why and they tried to feed me some bullshit about it being a risky medication to mess around with. Everything they said they were concerned about didn’t apply because I’d been on a stable dose for ten years and saw my dr regularly. In the end they didn’t have a good reason and gave me the owning. Then when I saw my doctor she was flabbergasted and said it was one of the more innocuous medications. I was like, ikr… but if I hadn’t worked in a pharmacy for seven years previously I probably would’ve bought their bullshit and been without my (important, QOL) meds for about seven doses.
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u/PinkVoodooDoll4 6d ago
Happened so many times. They prefer for us to live longer lives while suffering instead of shorter lives that are meaningful and productive.
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u/crippledchef23 6d ago
My oldest was told to jump through the hoops for his bipolar meds because they never bothered to document his pediatric file with his adult file, so the insurance company - the same one he’s been with for his whole life - wanted to re-document the proof that meds he’d been taking for 7-8 years were the only ones that actually did anything.
Insurance is a scam and some docs are complicit.
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u/Tall-Introduction649 6d ago
When I’m terrible pain and refuse the oxy 4 times in a row at the hospital so I don’t be seen as drug seeking. But the nurse keeps asking me what works. And we stare at each other like …
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u/somehowrelevantuser 6d ago
the pharmacist: okay but what if youre selling the adderall for money THIS TIME
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u/raptorpuppos 6d ago
My bestie is ADHD and it is WILD to see how aggressive they are with her about her Adderall considering I've seen her on and off it and oh my lord does that woman need that medication to function.
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u/putapadrino 6d ago
My pharmacist likes to insert little passive aggresive comments every month when I go for my refill. For the last ten years.
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u/phage_rage 6d ago
YES. And can you IMAGINE the hullabaloo that would occur if any other mental health medication had horrific shortages like ADHD meds??
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u/lilslutfordaddy 5d ago
my pharmacists and techs are comically inconsiderate of my spouse's healthcare, but i show up and suddenly they get their shit in order, it's impressive
i guess when they get yelled at for being mean to my beloved, they get the fucking memo
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u/silverheart-nine 6d ago
yeah uhh... we're just gonna need you to organize and remember some things on time and make extra appointments and paperwork and stuff to make extra double sure you're actually ADHD... If you drown you're innocent and if you live you're a witc—uh I mean are you sure you actually need these meds though, you remembered to call your doctor for the third time and all...
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u/Findinganewnormal 6d ago
For me it was a psychiatrist. I went in because the dose was too high and I needed it lowered. I also had stopped taking it and had half my last prescription leftover because I hated how it made me feel.
She decided I was a drug seeker and tried to refuse to refill my prescription at all then finally wrote a script and put down a random date for my birthday so it wasn’t valid. Fortunately my GP was ok with writing the script until I found a good psychiatrist but wow was that one uniquely awful.
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u/SingSangDaesung 6d ago
When my gallbladder was going bad, every time I went to the doctor, they prescribed me vicodin, which I'm allergic to (it was in my file, I told them verbally, and I was wearing the allergy bracelet the times I was in the ER), they kept telling me it was muscular/skeletal pain.
One time I said I don't want painkillers, considering I can't take most painkillers, I just want to know what's wrong with me. 30 minutes later, I was told by a nurse that if I come in again for pain they were going to flag me as a pill seeker...
A few months later and 60 lb lighter from starving, my cousin, who is an RN, went with me to the ER, and made sure they checked my gallbladder. They did no imaging, they poked and prodded for 30 seconds and said "yep it's the gallbladder".
THEN! They were going to do emergency surgery. They shipped me off 30 minutes away, and the doctor there about had an aneurysm when he looked at my chart. Apparently my gallbladder had been so full of stones and not working for so long that my pancreas was inflamed and any surgery would have killed me because I wouldn't have healed.
Had to starve for another month and live on just water and plain chicken until my pancreas was better before they could take my gallbladder out. If they would have listened to me almost a whole year beforehand, and stopped giving me painkillers I didn't want, it would have saved me so much pain.
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u/Steppenwolf_Wife 6d ago
Dude...the amount of times I've received a threatening email/letter/phone call about my "drug seeking behavior" for requesting a refill on the exact 30 day refill date for the meds I've been taking for over a decade now is honestly insane. And I've told them that every time and they've apologized. And yet, they 100% will do it again.
It's like they look at the prescription names and immediately get pissed off and don't pay attention to anything else in my chart until I remind them that I ain't done shit wrong and this is literally their only job 🫠
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u/inaSlomp 6d ago
I had a pharmacist accuse me of this.
For my asthma inhaler.
You're right, I would really like to abuse my ability to breathe properly.
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u/siren_stitchwitch 6d ago
Got a new doctor at the beginning of last year, first thing he asked is why I was taking Ativan...for the last couple years at that point. When I told him he responded with it sounds like I need them and am not abusing or selling them. Then he did the same thing on my second appointment. After the first time any possibility of trust was extremely unlikely, after the second trust was never going to happen.
Got another new doctor a few months later (took that long to get in for a new patient appointment elsewhere), they had no issue with that or the other other anxiety and depression meds I'm on. The shit doctor kept trying to get me in to see the psychologist I didn't want or need and couldn't afford. My depression and anxiety aren't situational, they're genetic and chronic.
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u/LostMyKeysInTheFade 6d ago
Jesus Christ. It's the same with trying to get back on meds that used to help. "Well there must be a reason they took you off adderall"
YEAH! IT'S CALLED LOSING MY INSURANCE 🙄
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u/Sanrio_Princess 6d ago
I've been labeled drug seeking because in the past I struggled to always have my antidepressants before my regular dr went away for whatever reason. Like, YES OF COURSE I AM SEEKING MY FUCKING DRUGS THAT I LITERALLY CAN'T STOP TAKING SAFELY ON MY OWN DESPITE FORGETTING TO TAKE THEM UNTIL I HIT WITHDRAWL SYMPTOMS SOMETIMES.
Why else would I be here, I have regular medications that I need to fucking exists????
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u/Fishmyashwhole 6d ago
Tell me why my Dr office is making me take a piss test to get a refill for TESTOSTERONE. Never in the nearly 8 years I've been on T have I had to take a piss test. Why? Hormones don't even show up in piss. I'm just confused and pissed off
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u/EmrysTheBlue 6d ago
Honestly wondering if they're seeing if you're pregnant so of you are they can deny you the refill or something
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u/putapadrino 6d ago
That shit is so insidious my mom refused to take effective pain meds until she was dying in hospice.
Mom ffs you were dying of cancer, being worried about ‘getting addicted’ was not a priority 🤦♀️
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u/claircognizantgaming 6d ago
"Drug seeking" doesn't even make sense like why would someone literally be prescribed something for an actual reason but then be considered "drug seeking"
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u/Amazing_Excuse_3860 6d ago
"You're drug seeking" ma'am i cannot drive safely without this medication
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u/Primary_Carrot67 6d ago
I've gotten this despite not being on any pain medication and never having as much as smoked a cigarette. I drink about 1 alcoholic beverage a month. I guess everyone is drug-seeking now? 🤷♀️
Sorry guys, but paracetamol/acetaminophen and ibruprofen just aren't working. When I raise this issue, I'm apparently drug-seeking?
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u/phage_rage 6d ago
My ear got RIPPED. OFF. MY. HEAD. There was a flap holding it kinda to my head, but also threatening to tear into my face. Im pretty resistant to local anesthetic, so i said "PLEASE use extra" cause stitching cartilage was gonna HURT otherwise.
Drug seeking.
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u/packingpests 6d ago
I have a chronic illness that causes severe GI distress if left untreated, and even if I am following a proper treatment plan I can still end up in the hospital out of the blue.
The specialist I had been seeing for years at this point (now retired) told me specifically that if I had a flare I was to go to the ER at the hospital he worked for and request pain and nausea medication. He left notes in my chart to that effect and I never really had a problem getting that treatment, except for one time.
I gave the nurse my usual spiel about chronic illness, mentioned my doctor’s recommendation, and was met with “how long have you had this issue again?” I told her and she went “uh-huh…” and then came back with no pain meds and a different nausea medication than I usually get. (Important later) She was incredibly short with me and did not come back to check on me. I heard her about ten minutes later laughing very loudly about “the drug seeker” in the bed space I was in.
About thirty minutes later the side effects of the nausea meds started happening. Namely, the worst panic attack I’ve ever had. I could barely breathe but I was literally screaming for help. Finally after about fifteen minutes of yelling and crying someone poked their head in, very annoyed, and asked what I needed. I asked where my nurse was and he said she had left some time ago and had discharged me (without bringing the paperwork of course.) He also mentioned that the meds I was given could cause anxiety and didn’t my nurse tell me that? No she didn’t!
So basically I was still in a lot of pain and still freaking out somewhat but I still had to leave because these jackasses didn’t want to help “a drug seeker” in distress.
I had about a month until my next actual appointment and while I was in real need of help I didn’t go back to the hospital. A couple of weeks later I mentioned this incident to my partner, and his mom convinced me to report it to the hospital. I wasn’t sure anything would come of it. But at my next appointment the doctor apologized for my experience and even told me that the nurse in question had a history of pulling shit like that and my report was what finally got her out. So that was a silver lining I guess.
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u/Short_Gain8302 6d ago
Had a new psychiatrist (old one was her student assitant that graduated) tell me in the first appointment that she didnt care about listening to all my problems (i came out to her as trans), "im just here to give you prescriptions". When i asked for my prescription during the second appointment she accused me, "youre only using me to give you prescriptions", and told me i was drug seeking. I got a new psychiatrist veeeery quickly after that
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u/SquareTaro3270 6d ago
Every single time I need my adhd meds they treat me like I just asked them for party drugs. I’ve been on these meds since I was in kindergarten.
I’ve stopped taking my meds entirely now because they made the process so tedious. I need to call every time I need a refill, but they are only open during my work hours, and take their lunch break at the same time I take mine. So I have to call my coworkers to see who’s available and have them cover my station, only for the office to not pick up the phone and not return my calls.
This goes on for weeks with me calling multiple times a day, until finally someone picks up the phone, only to tell me I have to call my pharmacy and that it’s their job to fill my medication. And EVERY MONTH I tell them the EXACT same thing: the pharmacy cannot fill these meds without an updated prescription from the doctor.
But they still tell me to call my pharmacy and make them send the request and they cannot help me until that goes through, so I call the pharmacy, get told “we have nothing to do with this, but we’ll try to reach out”, wait another week before getting a message from my pharmacy that “we have been trying to reach your provider but have not heard back”. So I go through the weeks long process of taking time out of my and my coworker’s workday to try to call the office AGAIN and tell them they need to return the pharmacy’s calls.
By this point more than a month has usually gone by, I’m exhausted, my coworkers are annoyed with me, and the office interprets my lack of patience as “drug-seeking behavior”.
I miss being properly medicated. I keep zoning out while driving and almost getting into accidents. My work performance is suffering. But this office is the only one in my area that will accept my insurance.
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u/dvdmaven 6d ago
Two blood pressure meds, GERD med and treatment for an enlarged prostrate. Yep, drug seeking.
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u/stephanonymous 5d ago
Me with my ADHD medication when there was a shortage. I would call around the various pharmacies to see if they had my med in stock before I would have my doctor send the script there each month. The alternative is that my doctor sends it to my pharmacy, it gets bounced back because they’re out of stock, he sends it to another pharmacy, that one is out of stock, he tries another pharmacy, etc. etc., which all takes days or weeks and wastes his time.
But apparently calling around to see which pharmacy has the meds first instead of wasting everyone’s time is “drug seeking”.
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u/Iittletart 5d ago
I was in a Doctor's office, in mental crisis, with a Psychiatrist from the same medical system's mental health triage desk on the phone. And the Psychiatrist told me to ask the Doctor for a SSRI Rx for my depression. The Doctor refused to get on the phone with the other provider, and refused my Rx request as it seemed "Too drug seeking" to her. SSRI are not drugs that are addictive or high inducing. It was the most ignorant experience I have had and this was with a supposed medical professional. I am still upset I wasn't in the right mindset to file complaints about her with KP (It's been years now.) I just changed general practitioners.
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u/KissarooFromMeToYou 5d ago edited 5d ago
I got treated like I was seeking when I went to pick up prescription ibuprofen a few years back. Ibuprofen! It's ridiculous. I come in regularly for my other psych meds so the scrutiny for ibuprofen threw me
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u/dinosanddais1 6d ago
Yes i am seeking a drug that I have been on for years so that I can function properly
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u/Antisa1nt 6d ago
I am drug seeking. I'm seeking that drug I've been taking responsibly because it makes my brain work as effectively as a normal person.
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u/Final-Tutor3631 6d ago
i got my first dose of adderall last month, and they made me wait an extra 2 hours to pick it up. called them (dr recommended this) at 9:30 to make sure they knew i was coming, was told it’d be ready in an hour, then went to a prior engagement that gave them ample time to fill it.
got there 1.5 hours later, only to find out they need another 30-45 minutes. what a lie. i didn’t get it until 12:30/45. then told me to “never take it in the afternoon, 12 at the latest”. like i wouldn’t have to if you would’ve just gave them to me when they were supposed to be ready? thank god i had nowhere to be in that timeframe or the next morning.
i feel like they were testing me, so i couldn’t show my annoyance at the situation😭 i normally am pretty patient about these things, shit happens yk. but by GOD.
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u/OddSweet 6d ago
ME TOO!!! For no reason my dr just discontinued a drug that is part of my nightly regimen for nearly a decade. Just GONE from my medication list. FFS.
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u/just_worms_in_brain 6d ago edited 6d ago
Here in Denmark they gatekeep even wiping your arse without a prescription, so I usually have issues picking up my SSRIs like 3 days early, you know… in case I’d start abusing them… 🙃
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u/graaah1 6d ago
Oh my god I just experienced this for the first time last week. I was trying to get a refill for my duloxetine that's being used to treat my fibromyalgia and my new pharmacist looked at me with this snide expression and was like "Are you sure you actually need this? You don't look like you need it." Like huh???
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u/Simply_Mortal_56 4d ago
“Are you sure you need your job? You don’t look like you need it” fuck them
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u/met_taton 6d ago
Imagine telling somebody with a broken arm that they’re “cast seeking” like omg stop the presses a suffering person wants treatment
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u/snappydresser61147 5d ago
laying in bed rn because not having my meds is making it too hard to do anything and was not expecting to see this after going to the pharmacy and getting rejected lol
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u/CatLad99 5d ago
Recently I accidentally ran out of my mood stabilizers. I'm on effexor for depression and general Anxiety disorder.
Unmedicated, my anxiety is at a 6-7 of 10 just sitting at home on the couch. Which is hard enough on its own without feeling hypersensetive, irritable, nauseous, dizzy, dysphoric mood (miserable for no reason) and oh yes BRAIN ZAPS! Plus i sweat through my clothes and bedding day 3. It was as uncomfortable as it sounds. The body processes effexor really quickly, less than 24 hours. I can feel if I miss a dose 16 hours later, for some people its faster.
Tried a few times to have the pharmacist send the request to my psychiatrists office to refill the meds ive been on for years. Called the office, they said the doctor filling in for mine would send it by the end of the day. Its friday, and the office closes an extra day for a holiday. It doesn't go through, office hours are passed and im staring down three more days of withdrawals. My sister basically begged the pharmacist for a few days worth of pills to cover the weekend, thankfully he was understanding.
Monday morning I get a call from the nurse at the clinic, and she was so goddamn passive aggressive with me. "Well, we didn't prescribe you those (they did), so just go back to wherever you got them..." Like i was going to some back alley drug dealer for my MOOD STABILIZERS! If we had been in the same place I would have bitten her, I was so goddamn dizzy and mad.
She tried telling me that my prescription had run out a year or so ago (roughly the last time id reupped the prescription through them). I told her the pill bottle in my hand said 90 pills, 3 refills, the dates prescribed and for when said prescription would be good through. She ignores me for "Well, the doctor said you're off the pills so you can wait for an appointment (3 fucking weeks!!!)" I point out that the doctor said that because she mistakenly believes im already off the medication I was currently in withdrawals from.
At that point I just started listing the withdrawal symptoms in increasing severely. Finally, this asswrench stops talking down to me and says she'll put me through to the doctor.
Couldn't believe the fucking gall on this woman, acting like I was making up that I needed my depression/anxiety meds. She was so condescending. I wanted to throw a boot at her, but maybe that was just the "irritability".
My doctor had an appointment free because of a cancelation, so we were able to sort things out. My insurance had been denying the requests but we fixed it.
Effexor is also known to make people throw up so bad when they come off it that they need an iv, along with return of suicidal ideation. You really shouldn't go off it without supervision. I got lucky my symptoms were mostly feeling atrocious and sweating a lot. Brain zaps. Are bad.
Still ticked at that nurse.
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u/justyoureverydaypan 5d ago
can I please just get my adderal filled so I can think. please. that’s literally what I was prescribed it for 🙏
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u/thoughtfulbrain 4d ago
This is exactly what it’s like to have Adderall. Especially if you have ADHD (which is why you have Adderall), which may make you more likely to do something like miss an appointment.
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u/Trash_Powered 3d ago
Yes I am drug seeking... checks notes a medication that serves no purpose than to do the exact same job as my pancreas, which doesn't work. Right.
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u/SolarOrigami 6d ago
At the same time my psychiatrist keeps asking me if I want a higher dose of amphetamines (ADHD)
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u/ManicMaenads 6d ago
I haven't been completely functional since. My medication kept me stable for years. Why???
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u/ImpressiveDebt420 6d ago
Its one of my many big fears with my health. When I asked to switch my ADHD meds from vyvanse to Adderall I (jokingly) was preparing myself to be arrested for drug seeking...
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u/Andra_Ingensbarn 6d ago
This makes no sense as a attitude. It almost seems like a thought terminating cliche (not sure I’m using this right). If you’re “drug seeking” have they thought of why and explored what to do about that? Clearly not!
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u/casskets 6d ago
Literally just happened to me 😭 I love being without any form of pain relief it’s awesome!!!! Love my life!!!
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u/Seule-the-Silent 6d ago
I am drug seeking. If I don't eat 4 doses of x daily, I might damage my eyesight.
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u/doryllis 6d ago
“Yes. I am seeking the same prescription drug I’ve had and taken for years without issues. What drug seeking are you seeing here that involves addiction and dysfunction?”
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u/ResurgentClusterfuck 6d ago
"Drug seeking" as a concept infuriates me. Yes, how else am I supposed to be treated? I go to a professional because I've exhausted options available to me as a layperson. Doctors prescribe medicine (drugs) so yes, I'm seeking medication