Prescription Medicine (negative, propane, horses, best)
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I've found a much more honorable and honest way to ensure that I have a plentiful supply of my meds. I ask my doctor to double up all my meds but I will still take them as he told me to. Since my doctor and I go way, way back he writes the script as I want and I take the meds the way he wants.
Getting meds by dishonest means is never as good way to go about it.
What's dishonest by paying for the second rx out of pocket? I'm not cheating the insurance company, or anyone else. Doctors simply won't prescribe antibiotics, my daughter had a fever of 104 for 3+days, they told me to give her tylenol and ride it out. Yes, I know all about the over use of antibiotics, but she hadn't had any for years. You need to look at the individual patient, not overall usage in a given area. You're lucky if you have a doctor who will actually work with you instead of being over-concerned about whatever his statistics show. Most doctors won't double up on the rx just because you ask them to, give it a try, more power to you if you can!
Here's a few tricks I've used to get a few extra doses
fill the rx at one pharmacy and use your insurance. Then call your doc and claim you lost the rx, could they call in another/ Have it called in to another pharmacy, and pay out-of-pocket. That way you have double dose to save for later, even though you had to pay for one. doctors are increasingly reluctant to prescribe antibiotics, making them hard to stockpile. Note: DON'T do this with narcotics, you could wind up with a drug charge!
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Originally Posted by marylee54
What's dishonest by paying for the second rx out of pocket? I'm not cheating the insurance company, or anyone else.
Your method uses misrepresentation and falsehoods to acquire more medications than were prescribed for you which you seem to know from your other drug warning.
That said, I doubt your doctor would look kindly on being abused that way.
I don't have a link or any "evidence" but this is what a pharmacist told me---be very careful with expired tylenol, or any drug containing tylenol. When it get old, tylenol can cause kidney and liver damage. Problem is, is hard to tell expired tylenol except by the expiration date on the bottle---the medicine itself doesn't mainifest any outward changes, still looks, smells, and tastes the same. .
That is NOT tylenol getting old. That is tylenol.
Tylenol does tear up your organs, it has no bearing on the age of the tylenol.
My Dw Over-dosed herself by accident on Tylenol.
Organs went into shut-down, and it brought on a heart attack. She was later diagnosed with migraines. She had been treating her headaches herself with tylenol. Thinking they were 'safe' because they are OTC.
Tylenol is dangerous. Not due to it getting old, but because it is tylenol.
Tylenol does tear up your organs, it has no bearing on the age of the tylenol.
My Dw Over-dosed herself by accident on Tylenol.
Organs went into shut-down, and it brought on a heart attack. She was later diagnosed with migraines. She had been treating her headaches herself with tylenol. Thinking they were 'safe' because they are OTC.
Tylenol is dangerous. Not due to it getting old, but because it is tylenol.
Read the label.
Tylenol, taken inapprporiately (ie, overdosing) can cause kidney, liver damage, so can many drugs. However, my point was, expired Tylenol can cause such damage with a single dose, so be careful of "stocking up".
It's funny how patients seem to know more about medicine that doctors do
It's the reason why we have an overwhelming amount of MRSA cases. People insisting on antibiotics for a simple fever that would be MUCH better treated with tylenol.
Tylenol, taken inapprporiately (ie, overdosing) can cause kidney, liver damage, so can many drugs. However, my point was, expired Tylenol can cause such damage with a single dose, so be careful of "stocking up".
Do you have a reputable medical link to back up that statement? If anything, acetaminophen LOSES potency after expiring and causes no more damage to your liver than an unexpired dose.
If it were truly the case that expired Tylenol would cause severe liver damage with just one dose, they would have gigantic warning labels on the bottle, and it would also be easy to find that information with a simple google search.
Please leave these types of decisions up to your doctor and pharmacist.
Tylenol, taken inapprporiately (ie, overdosing) can cause kidney, liver damage, so can many drugs. However, my point was, expired Tylenol can cause such damage with a single dose, so be careful of "stocking up".
Okay
Within the given context that ALL tylenol is capable of causing liver and kidney damage; yes expired tylenol also causes liver and kidney damage.
One tablet ever four hours is way too much of any tylenol.
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