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Old 12-25-2014, 04:28 PM
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You will find that many/most local MDs are *very* cautious about prescribing pain meds. Florida had a rep for pill mills and the resulting state and federal crackdown has resulted in a lot of "CYA" by doctors and pharmacies.

When I first tried to get my father's pain meds made every 4 hours instead of "as necessary", I got a long lecture on not making patients addicts. It took several times thru "he's 91, bed ridden, in constant pain and dying" before a prescription was written and administered. (And he was in a nursing home, so no one else was going to have access to his meds.

The good news is that he's now in a place where there is no pain and suffering. I'd like to hope that they have good baseball leagues there as nothing would say "heaven" to him more than being able to play center field again.