I know this isn’t the right place to post this so I’m hoping someone will guide me as to where I might ask this question. Please be nice…I’m really about to break here.
Basically, my elderly father has cancer. He lives far from me but I’m moving to be closer to him, and hopefully will be able to help him with problems like the one I’m going to ask about.
He was seeing a pain management doctor who was part of his cobbled together palliative team. This doctor was always way too busy for my dad and kept lecturing him about opioids being addictive (I should mention that my dad is stage 4 with extensive metastasis). I called and sat in on a meeting via speakerphone and only then did the doctor prescribe a small amount of opioids. He wrote him 50 5mg pills for 24 days. My dad is not opioid naive - 5mg is like Tylenol to him. Well cut to a week later and of course my dad has used all the meds and calls me, crying in pain. I’m tearing up as I write this. My dad is a Marine. He’s tough as nails. To hear him cry made me so sad. And angry. But I digress.
I called his pain doc and asked him to up his meds please. Doc didn’t like my attitude and refused saying there’s an opioid epidemic. So I called my dad’s PCP the next day (on a Saturday no less) who has been the family doc for 3 decades. He said he would take over the pain meds. He immediately sent over the same prescription but doubled the number. 100 5mg pills of oxycodone. He also prescribed him a patch (I guess he’s to wear the patch and use the pills too) I was so happy! My dad would finally not be in pain.
But, when my dad’s aide went to pick up the meds (doc said they’d be ready right away) the pharmacy said they were on hold. Unfortunately this pharmacy closes early on Saturdays so I couldn’t get to the bottom of things. They don’t open until Monday and I’m just sort of out of my mind worried for my dad. Did I do something wrong by calling his PCP? I do not blame the pharmacy at all - they are the nicest people in the world. But, I think something must have gotten lost in translation or something. Is there a reason they wouldn’t have filled his meds? Apparently they told the aide that they couldn’t dispense the meds until the original 24 days on the other prescription ran out.
Is there any documentation I can have ready for my dad when I call the pharmacy on Monday? How can I help? What did I do wrong so I don’t repeat the mistake?
Thank you for your advice and please forgive the longwindedness of this post.
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