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prescription fraud, HELP
My OB has been giving percocets ever since October, well last time I was there the nurse accidently(or maybe she did it to catch me) gave me an extra prescription slip with the drs signature already on it. The nurse writes all my scripts for percs cuz the dr has already signed the slips and the nurse carries it with her. Anyways 2 weeks after this appointment, I filled out the script with my name and percs! I am since so scared, i cant eat or sleep and I'm a nervous wreck! needless to say I'm clean now. I filled this script on April 5, when do you think I would be caught by? Do controlled substance slips go back to the dr ? help please
Sara is right your hubby will come around .hubby might want to contact a lawyer and talk to them before he calls your doctors . Find conceling today keep your chin up come back when you can.
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Your husband will come around but right now he is upset and has every right to be. It is a shock to their system too. Your actions will speak louder than words. Show him this site and let him read up on addiction and how it affects the whole family.......sara
Thank you all for your support! I told my mom and husband last night. Telling my husband was the hardest. I havent had any pills since the weekend. I'm looking for a counselor today. My husband is mad at me because he wants to call my family dr and my OB but I dont want him to. He thinks I will go straight back to the pills, I can tell you this has scared me straight(believe me or not) and I'm not gonna go get more pills and have it show up on my record after I'm giving myself to counseling, wouldnt that be dumb. My mom is being very supportive, but I dont feel it from my husband, and i need him the most. I dont have alot of time right now, but i'll be back later. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH
crafty so true about the clean UA
also hun plz make sure you get recoverycare I cant stress this enough
also hun plz make sure you get recoverycare I cant stress this enough
My mistake, you got a script from a family doc? I saw another doc, but figured it was from the same practice as your OB. Ok. Ignore the terminology...doctor shopping. Woohoo. It's something that doctor's, nurses, and pharmacists say. People do it. Everyone needs to stop analyzing that term to see if you fit in that catagory. You fit in the the addicted catagory and you need help. You know that. When you are alone, and you close your eyes.. you know your heart. Google the Thomas Recipe. Don't even think about turning yourself in. That would be absolutely positively the worst idea EVER. If you were to get caught just remember.. Nothing says "I've turned my life around," like clean urine.
Detox asap. (((Hugs))) and much love. You're human. Don't beat yourself up. We do stupid things. You are going to learn from this.
Detox asap. (((Hugs))) and much love. You're human. Don't beat yourself up. We do stupid things. You are going to learn from this.
Cubbiegirl, i want to start out saying that I have been following this post on my cell phone as withdrawal has been so bad for me that I cannot get up off the couch until today. Day four. I feel awful for you. You just couldn't help yourself. A lot of readers may think I'm a nutjob, but I have to tell you that I'm an empath, which basically means I pick up on different situations I run accross and I get a reading on what is going on. I have found that I can't choose who, when, where, or what, but I have feelings and I see situations pretty accurately. With that being disclosed (take it with a grain of salt if you want.. ) I have to get out what my intuition is telling me.
I just type and it comes to me. You are an addict. It's okay. There are LOTS of addicts who forge LOTS of prescriptions every single day. In my minds eye I see a woman looking at the script to fill it, a little hesitation for some reason, she doesn't know why, but something seems off. She shrugs it off, fills it and doesn't think about it again.
It was a blip on her radar. I wouldn't worry about it. It takes a few instances (in most cases) to prove forgery. The reason it takes awhile for some people to get caught is because law enforcement waits and makes sure this person is a repeat offender and they have ample evidence to convict. There's still a small chance you will get caught, but if this is going to be your last bout with the percs then there should be no reason that your OB would pull you up on the registry. She wouldn't need to, right? Also, if the OB did suspect that you forged it.. SHE would be held partially liable for pre-signing the prescriptions. Though this is "technically" legal, this is frowned upon and I feel as if your OB has had second thoughts in regards to this system of handing out her prescriptions. So I think she would be very very hesitant to report anything.
You, are not doctor shopping, I know exactly what is going on with that situation. There are many doctors (possibly FNPs, Nurse practitioners..) that are part of the practice. Sometimes you will call for YOUR doctor, but she cannot be there to sign off on the script, so another member of HER staff will do so. Is this correct?
It will show up as different on the online report, appear as though you are doctor shopping, but these docs are all in the same practice.
OK, In my gut I feel 85% sure you are not going to get found out. But there are some realities you are going to have to face. I don't know you, but this is what i can feel.
#1. You shouldn't have picked that script up.
#2. FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET AND WAVE GOODBYE
#3 You are an addict or you wouldn't be forging the scripts.
Remember your kids? Your husband? They haven't gotten the real you, the sober you, in so long. They deserve this. They need the real you, all the time. It's a sobering thought, I know. What if the real you isn't a good mother? What if the real you finds faults in your mate that otherwise you wouldn't have noticed?
Either way, you have to take that chance and make the commitment to stay away from the poison that drives you to jeopardize your family. By forging that script, you said..
"I AM MOST IMPORTANT, everyone else is second. I cannot feel the pain right now, I need this and it doesn't matter whose life it might screw up. I have to have it."
Where to go from here. Make the matter up in your mind. Just do it. Grow some balls. You're a woman for God's sake!! We push babies out!! You can do this.
There are plently of places to get support. Not just outpatient hospital programs, NA meetings are held at churches, community centers... you name it.
As on how to detox... Google the Thomas Recipe. It's helped me, I'm on day 4.
I took 3, 4 maybe 5 Lortab/7.5 every day for 10 months. Two years ago I had to detox off of Fentanyl. I had NO clue it was stronger than morphine. None whatsoever.
The truth of the matter is, I have a legitimate disease. I have been sick for three years with no answers. I've seen 17 doctors in my city.. and not for pills. For answers as to why a girl in her mid twenties can't get out of bed every morning b/c of the pain. My face broke out in shingles, I lost all feeling in my face, seeing double, no balance, lesions on my brain, couldn't walk some days. I haven't worked since January and I lost the career that I loved, that I worked SO HARD to get to. Pills were what kept me going to that job, they kept me going. I could walk again, excluding multiple flights of stairs. :)
But doctors treat me like a criminal for wanting to refill my 90 pills per month. They want to drug test me, they want to make me feel like a druggie. And to be honest, they've drilled it so far into my head that I honestly think I am a druggie. So i know how you feel. Relying on the pick me up. .
I finally contacted Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I had no money. No way to get there, but I knew I had to. My dad paid for it. I'm not sure how he did that, but God bless him. Now I know what disease I'm battling. My blood tests showed the pain scale... and showed I was having the same amount of pain as someone coming out of surgery.
Still, I get back home to get my medicine and my doctor treats me like a felon.
THAT is why I want to get off this sh!t. I'm tired of feeling like a bad person. Like a junkie. Aren't you??
I just type and it comes to me. You are an addict. It's okay. There are LOTS of addicts who forge LOTS of prescriptions every single day. In my minds eye I see a woman looking at the script to fill it, a little hesitation for some reason, she doesn't know why, but something seems off. She shrugs it off, fills it and doesn't think about it again.
It was a blip on her radar. I wouldn't worry about it. It takes a few instances (in most cases) to prove forgery. The reason it takes awhile for some people to get caught is because law enforcement waits and makes sure this person is a repeat offender and they have ample evidence to convict. There's still a small chance you will get caught, but if this is going to be your last bout with the percs then there should be no reason that your OB would pull you up on the registry. She wouldn't need to, right? Also, if the OB did suspect that you forged it.. SHE would be held partially liable for pre-signing the prescriptions. Though this is "technically" legal, this is frowned upon and I feel as if your OB has had second thoughts in regards to this system of handing out her prescriptions. So I think she would be very very hesitant to report anything.
You, are not doctor shopping, I know exactly what is going on with that situation. There are many doctors (possibly FNPs, Nurse practitioners..) that are part of the practice. Sometimes you will call for YOUR doctor, but she cannot be there to sign off on the script, so another member of HER staff will do so. Is this correct?
It will show up as different on the online report, appear as though you are doctor shopping, but these docs are all in the same practice.
OK, In my gut I feel 85% sure you are not going to get found out. But there are some realities you are going to have to face. I don't know you, but this is what i can feel.
#1. You shouldn't have picked that script up.
#2. FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET AND WAVE GOODBYE
#3 You are an addict or you wouldn't be forging the scripts.
Remember your kids? Your husband? They haven't gotten the real you, the sober you, in so long. They deserve this. They need the real you, all the time. It's a sobering thought, I know. What if the real you isn't a good mother? What if the real you finds faults in your mate that otherwise you wouldn't have noticed?
Either way, you have to take that chance and make the commitment to stay away from the poison that drives you to jeopardize your family. By forging that script, you said..
"I AM MOST IMPORTANT, everyone else is second. I cannot feel the pain right now, I need this and it doesn't matter whose life it might screw up. I have to have it."
Where to go from here. Make the matter up in your mind. Just do it. Grow some balls. You're a woman for God's sake!! We push babies out!! You can do this.
There are plently of places to get support. Not just outpatient hospital programs, NA meetings are held at churches, community centers... you name it.
As on how to detox... Google the Thomas Recipe. It's helped me, I'm on day 4.
I took 3, 4 maybe 5 Lortab/7.5 every day for 10 months. Two years ago I had to detox off of Fentanyl. I had NO clue it was stronger than morphine. None whatsoever.
The truth of the matter is, I have a legitimate disease. I have been sick for three years with no answers. I've seen 17 doctors in my city.. and not for pills. For answers as to why a girl in her mid twenties can't get out of bed every morning b/c of the pain. My face broke out in shingles, I lost all feeling in my face, seeing double, no balance, lesions on my brain, couldn't walk some days. I haven't worked since January and I lost the career that I loved, that I worked SO HARD to get to. Pills were what kept me going to that job, they kept me going. I could walk again, excluding multiple flights of stairs. :)
But doctors treat me like a criminal for wanting to refill my 90 pills per month. They want to drug test me, they want to make me feel like a druggie. And to be honest, they've drilled it so far into my head that I honestly think I am a druggie. So i know how you feel. Relying on the pick me up. .
I finally contacted Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I had no money. No way to get there, but I knew I had to. My dad paid for it. I'm not sure how he did that, but God bless him. Now I know what disease I'm battling. My blood tests showed the pain scale... and showed I was having the same amount of pain as someone coming out of surgery.
Still, I get back home to get my medicine and my doctor treats me like a felon.
THAT is why I want to get off this sh!t. I'm tired of feeling like a bad person. Like a junkie. Aren't you??
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