This is to Redhill and also to Dolock

Redhill,
I was labeled that for a very short time. I've gone to the same Dr. for 2 years when he joins an HMO and a new group
with 3 additional doctors. My first visit after the he started with the new group, I saw a different Dr. I got the same meds that I did the last time. I went to the horrible Walgreen's which filled the prescription ( 180 Lorcet 10/650 ) with 5 refills. He told me that he needed to see the diagnosis to which I replied that it was none of his business and that I'll go somewhere else and demanded my scripts back. He was hesitant, but I am a very forceful person and there was no way I was leaving without them. It seems that he made copies and the next day called my PCP and told him that I was getting multiple prescriptions from different Dr's. My Dr. called me the next day and asked if I could come in and see him, I had a feeling that it was related to my confrontation with the pharmacist, but since I knew I was right I went right in. While I waited in the exam room I looked at my folder which was laying there with a little note that said "Is he drug seeking". So my regular Dr. came in and he told me he had received a call from a pharmacist and relayed the pharmacists side of the story to me. It was accurate except for the duplicate prescriptions. I pointed to the post-it and I asked him if he had seen the appointment book from yesterday and told him that I got them from his group. Nothing sneaky going on here. He went out for a minute, came back, apoligized and ripped up the little post-it note and said he was calling Walgreen's back and would speak to the pharmacists boss and suggested that I do the same thing.
I did and went much higher up the chain. My wife is an attorney and she wrote a letter and made clear that if this incident wasn't completely put to rest, if it followed me anywhere, there would be a lawsuit. I was so angry that this little man was trying to hurt me and my medical
progress with his self-righteous little crusade. He's very lucky that I'm not a violent person because what he did could have permanently damaged my record and credibility.
I no longer will go to Walgreen's for any reason.
The group my Dr. joined has since added all of their names to every prescription pad.

Dolock:
I had a similar problem with CVS. I didn't have to see my Dr. all the time to get my meds, I went almost a year
without seeing him and he never questioned or denied me any meds. He would call in everything I needed. I called the pharmacist and told her what I needed refilled and she told me that I didn't have any refills left ( Indocin, Zyloprim and Lorcet 10) and that I would have to see my Dr. She said
it was against the law to take prescriptions over the phone for controlled drugs. I live in New Jersey, and that is a bold faced lie. You can call in anything, even CII's if the
pharmacy knows the Dr. and trusts that he or someone in his office will mail in the original immediatley. Things may have changed since 2001, but back then NJ went by the DEA guidelines and didn't make up their own rules for individual
meds like New York for example.
So I told her that and that I didn't appreciate her meddling. I then called my Dr. and had him call in 1 refill each on all of the medicines I needed just to show her that I knew she was lying to me. I have never had any problems before or since with any other pharmacy.

The bottom line is, don't take any [censored] from anyone about your medical needs or anything else for that matter. There
are way too many people out there that will just lay down and take this treatment and suffer.

Thank you all for letting me rant.