#775255 - 09/29/08 12:53 PM
Re: Transferring refills
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Bluefairy
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That is a loaded question!
Some will post that absolutely this or that is true, when there is so much that can vary.
1. State laws and regulations. - some states allow transfers of controlled substances, some do not. Some allow them to transferred just once in the life of the script. Some allowed them to be transferred to another store of the same chain and do not consider it a transfer, some states do not.
Mississippi no longer allows any transfers of controlled scripts, but each state has its own policies on this.
2. The original pharmacy does have to approve it, but you can let the new pharmacy do the work/calls/etc.
If your state allows the transfer but the pharmacy will not, sometimes the new pharmacy can call the doctor's office and have a new script called in there for the remainder of the fills and canceled at the old pharmacy.
3. Some doctors write on the script itself that it cannot be transferred without their permission. I have seen script pads with this actually printed on them.
So unfortunately, the answer is "depends".
You could call any pharmacy in your state and ask if they allow transfers of controlled substances from an in-state pharmacy to start with.
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#775256 - 09/29/08 12:53 PM
Re: Transferring refills
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PatrickStar
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Registered: 10/13/04
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I recently moved from Tennessee to South Carolina. I had a refill of Lortab on a prescription from my PCP. I had it transferred from the pharmacy in TN to a pharmacy in SC. The pharmacist told me that controlled meds can only be transferred once. I don't know if that is a SC rule or a Federal rule.
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#775371 - 09/29/08 03:40 PM
Re: Transferring refills
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illinifan
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Registered: 06/23/08
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I have a script for 1 mg 3X/day xanax from my doc in AZ, I just moved for new job Does any know a good doc in Orange County CA who woesn't have a problem refilling if I have my records?
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#776859 - 10/01/08 05:12 PM
Re: Transferring refills
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illinifan
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Thanks mentor
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#794104 - 10/29/08 12:05 PM
Re: Tussionex Question
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Repteur
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Registered: 06/08/05
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Loc: Suburban Chicago (Southwest)
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How good is this cough syrup???
I dropped the RX off at the pharmacy today and asked the price and they said $104 for a 4 ounce bottle (tiny bottle!!!!)
Is it worth this????? It has been a while since I received Hydro. syrup and I don't remember theone I received being this expensive.
104 for 4 ounces tussionex is outradeous. Its 93 here for 6 ounces. Download a discount prescription drug card walk through the door with that. It should bring the price down around the 70's mark.
Edited by Repteur (10/29/08 12:07 PM)
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CAN I GET A REFILL ON THAT
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#794107 - 10/29/08 12:08 PM
Re: Tussionex Question
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Repteur
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The pharmacy said that there is no generic for it.
I know it contains Hydrocodone and it is a 12 Hr. extended relief.......I basically want to know if anyone has tried it because that IS a ton of money for such a small bottle!
yes its the best hydro on the market. Blows away norco 10/325
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#794276 - 10/29/08 04:10 PM
Re: Tussionex Question
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Stacy
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Registered: 11/15/02
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Oh that's a nice song. No wonder people have a hard time getting docs to write scripts for this.
That's what the pharmacist told me, now short of things that are generally given for cough. I mean dilaudid will stop a cough, but it's not generally written for coughs.
My dad was given some kind of morphine liquid that he would use like a breathing treatment, but that too is not the normal 'cough med' written.
I think it has 10 mg of hydro per tsp, but that is extended release.
I did find this info on it:
The treatment of exhausting or non-productive cough; associated with cold or with upper respiratory allergic condition that does not respond to non-narcotic antitussives. It is an effective antitussive which acts for approximately 8 to 12 hours.
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Tussionex suspension must not be diluted with fluids or mixed with other drugs because this alters the resin-binding and changes the absorption rate, possibly increasing the toxicity.
And this that seems to contradict itself:
Adults: 5 mL of suspension or 1 tablet every 8 to 12 hours. Maximum daily dose is 10 mL of suspension or 2 tablets. May be adjusted to individual requirements.
You can take 5 ml every 8 to 12 hours, but no more than 10 ml daily. If you take it every 8 hours then that would be 15 ml daily.
The pharmacist did warn me the first time I ever had it to not just 'take a sip like many people do with cough meds, measure it'.
I've never found that it last 12 hours, but generally 8 hours. I've also had the doc give it to me when something like hycodan wasn't working and he said he would give me something better.
Maybe 'strongest' isn't the correct word, but 'best' because my experience has been 1 tsp (10 mg of hydro) for eight hours works better than 2 tsp of hycodan (10 mg of hydro) for four hours.
Maybe it is the antihistamine that is in it that makes it work better and being extended release at least generally lets you sleep 8 hours straight.
It knocks me out when hycodan doesn't do that.
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#794394 - 10/29/08 08:21 PM
Re: Tussionex Question
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Stacy
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Registered: 11/15/02
Posts: 2010
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That's what it looked like to me, but it doesn't have to be sprite I don't think.
Tussionex suspension must not be diluted with fluids or mixed with other drugs because this alters the resin-binding and changes the absorption rate, possibly increasing the toxicity.
It looks like if it is diluted, it is no longer controlled release.
The thing you need to remember though...while you might be opiate tolerant enough to do that, there is the antihistamine in there and it is strong evidently. I take phenergan pretty regular due to my migraines and I can take 25 mg and it doesn't knock me out, but 1 tsp of the Tussionex DOES knock me out. If I take hydro at night, I have to have something with it to sleep, it tends to keep me awake.
Please be careful with whatever you do, if it were me, I would take the 1 tsp of Tussionex and then maybe 4 hours later take 1/2 to one of the Endocet and see if 4 hours after that you need another tsp of the Tussionex or if you just took 1/2 the Endocet take the other half instead of the Tussionex.
Remember you don't want to cough, but you also don't want to stop breathing when you go to bed.
Edited by Stacy (10/29/08 08:22 PM)
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#794400 - 10/29/08 08:27 PM
Re: Tussionex Question
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nitemoon
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Registered: 12/01/04
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Loc: AL
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That's what it looked like to me, but it doesn't have to be sprite I don't think. Tussionex suspension must not be diluted with fluids or mixed with other drugs because this alters the resin-binding and changes the absorption rate, possibly increasing the toxicity. It looks like if it is diluted, it is no longer controlled release. The thing you need to remember though...while you might be opiate tolerant enough to do that, there is the antihistamine in there and it is strong evidently. I take phenergan pretty regular due to my migraines and I can take 25 mg and it doesn't knock me out, but 1 tsp of the Tussionex DOES knock me out. If I take hydro at night, I have to have something with it to sleep, it tends to keep me awake. Please be careful with whatever you do, if it were me, I would take the 1 tsp of Tussionex and then maybe 4 hours later take 1/2 to one of the Endocet and see if 4 hours after that you need another tsp of the Tussionex or if you just took 1/2 the Endocet take the other half instead of the Tussionex. Remember you don't want to cough, but you also don't want to stop breathing when you go to bed.
I have to agree with Stacy, especially since you are taking other meds. It might cause an adverse reaction.
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