I wan to know if anyone else is having this issue with their pain medication.
The Federal Government has begun to limit the amount of narcotic medicines that can ship to a pharmacy. No matter if they have legitimate clients that have scripts that need to be filled. I have two instances in my own family. I have muscular dystrophy and rely on taking at least one narcotic a day to get through work. I have been taking the same narcotic Nucynta for over a year now, and have always gone to the same CVS pharmacy. My script comes from a neurologist that I see every two months to ensure I am not abusing the medication. For the last three months I have submitted my script to the CVS pharmacy and have been told it will be ordered. For the last three months the CVS pharmacy has called me to say they cannot get the medication because of new FDA regulations. They are only allowed a certain amount of narcotics a month and this month the FDA would not allow the distributor to ship my medication. For the last three months I have had to call all over Lake County IL. to find a CVS that might have it. There was a month I could not find it at all, and other times I was only able to get less than what my script was written out for. I have contacted the Caremark Company that manages the CVS stores and was told the exact same thing that the local store told me. The FDA is severely limiting the supply of narcotic medication that distributors can send out.
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