I lost my too weak pain medication... and all my other meds... But don't yell. I'm serious...?
I'm serious. By the way. So please don't start freaking out on me... So first of all. I got in a moped accident in france 2 years ago. My head hasn't stopped hurting since then, but it flares up at times, about once a day, and it's miserable. Absolutely miserable. I'm only 18 though, and my mom believed I was faking it. However, 3 months ago, I said "screw it, I'm 18 now, I'm going to see a freaking neurologist." I showed them my ER records (where my head hurt so bad I couldn't move) and showed them the absences I've had in school, and gave them my school nurse's number to call, because she's seen me throw up and lay around in her office for hours on end in pain. He called for an MRI and prescribed me a few hydrocodone 5's (which i'd taken previously from the ER after being given a higher dosage) I also have two types of headaches, one which he diagnosed as a migraine, and gave me relpax for, which helps a lot, and virapamil as a preventative. When he got my MRI back he said it showed serious neck damage and perscribed me 1-2 350mg soma a day, and 1 7.5mg hydrocodone every other day. Although the somas help a million, they've made it so that when my head flares up, it's worse. I break them in half and take 3 halfs a day, letting them wear off near bedtime. I wake up a lot though and throw up in the middle of the night. The hydrocodones work very well, but i'd like to be able to take the 10mg ones like they gave me last fall at the ER, and i'd like to be able to take them once a day. My head just hurts enough that I need them. However, onto the losing all my meds part... I was diagnosed at like age 8 with a terrible memory. My father (whom i no longer live with) didn't understand why I forgot everything she said to me, and my friends said to me, and how far i'd gotten in video games, and what i did earlier that day... So he got me tested... I took tests for hours on end, and have taken them again 4 more times since then(most recently, a few weeks after i turned 17, so a year ago.) They've all shown that my memory is somewhere in the 15-20 %ile range, and that my intellegence is somewhere in the 99.5-99.8 %ile range. (for instance, I can't memorize physics formulas, but I can do the derivatives to find them based on basic logic in my head in seconds, without writing them down.) I take adderall off-label (ish? because some of memory is linked to attention) for memory, and it helps, but i try not to take it on days where i'm not doing anything because i don't want to build a tolerance. So. Now I've lost all my meds. The Virapamil, the Relpax, the Hydrocodone, the Soma, and the Adderall... So what do I do? Call my Pharmacy? Call my neurologist (who gives me the virapamil, relpax, hydrocodone and soma) or call my GP (who, upon seeing the report from the testing, gives me the adderall) And if i call and report them lost, I'm almost positive that they won't give me an increase in strength for the pain meds. However, I cannot deal with this pain. I'm wearing sunglasses inside and typing on this screen and it's still so bright it hurts my head... So what do I do? Oh. I forgot to mention how I lost them. I had them all in a bag in my car getting ready to go to athens after prom, then I heard from a friend who said he was on his way to my house, i thought i was going up there... I cleaned out my car and threw a ton of stuff away, took it down to the garbage can, and then, on the way to pick up my prom date, needed something for my head and knew everything was still in my car in the bag (a separate bag from my clothes.) so i turned around and nothing was in my backseat. So either someone walked in my room, grabbed my keys, and unlocked my car while i was in my room getting ready for prom, or i moved them somewhere, or i threw them away. I texted my mom that my head hurt at prom, and she asked why i didn't take something so i explained it to her. then today she just asked why my head hurt so i explained that i didn't know where my meds were. so now i'm asking here.
Pain & Pain Management - 2 Answers
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Call your neurologist and your GP. Explain the situation and see what they say.
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Well...you can call all your doctors who prescribe your medications...all of them from both doctors,and explain how you lost your medications.I just hope you have a good explanation as to why you lost them,and hopefully both doctors will agree to a new refill.You should have asked the doctor who prescribes the hydrocodone for a higher dose whenever you needed it...a long time ago or whenever it was that you first needed a higher dose.I wouldn't ask now seeing how your already in a bind.That would look suspicious. So,call both doctors if you really need all your medications,and if not...call only the doctor from which medications that you ONLY need for right now.And,explain the situation...but I wouldn't even ask for a higher dose of the hydrocodone.Not now anyway. Hope everything works out for you.Take care.
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