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#698020 - 05/13/08 09:15 PM
Direct Scripts and insurance?
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Kotee
Journeyman
Registered: 03/23/08
Posts: 54
Loc: Medulla oblongata
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I have had migraines every day for 11 years. I was in 6 'total' car crashes which exacerbate the migraines. I am 29 and have 2 preventive medications and Tramadol for onset. The Tramadol is ok, but hydrocodone works much better. My doctor will not prescribe Hydrocodone because he thinks it is too addictive.
-Since I have a long history of migraines and my doctor can speak of my condition, will this help me get a prescription with an online company?
-Is there any way to get a prescription to use at a pharmacy in my home town?
-Is there any way to use my insurance to get the consultation and medication?
I really appreciate your time in reading this. Thanks, Kotee.
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#698645 - 05/15/08 03:00 AM
Re: A couple questions, any help appreciated.
[Re: Calbildo1]
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Lynx4
Veteran
Registered: 08/08/07
Posts: 588
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To answer your questions:
Yes, you can get a prescription based on your condition, if your records show you've been prescribed the same medicine before.
Yes, A Direct Script company can send you the written prescription that you take to your home town pharmacy. They can also just call the prescription into any pharmacy in your town you prefer. Not all states take Out of State prescriptions so check on it first.
Yes, you can use your insurance to pay for the prescription. I don't think you can use your insurance to pay for the actual consult. You may be able to use your insurance if you go with NNCIP. Read their threads to see what other patients have said.
As an aside, as I've said about a million times on here, I have a sister with a history going back MANY years of massive, weekly migraines. Stadol NS seems to be the medicine that works the best. Her doctor said No No to Hydrocodone (can cause headaches in migraine sufferers). He also gives her Tylenol #3 (guess codeine is okay), occasionally Ultracet, and demerol pills to keep her out of the emergency room. This is after using Imitrex and every other med on the market for migraines. She thought Imitrex worked great, but most prescriptions were for like 8-10 pills and would cost a couple of hundred $$ to fill, and they didn't have insurance. Her doctor used to give her as many samples as he had, and would give her the little shots of Imitrex also since she couldn't afford to always fill the prescriptions, and she often needed at least 2 Imitrex pills to stop the migraine.
Topamax seems to prevent her from getting headaches at all, but she has lost a ton of weight and is basically bones with skin stretched over them. She still takes it, but takes breaks from it so she can eat and try to get some weight back on.
Good Luck!
edited to add: I hope my phrase about saying it a million times didn't come out as sounding mean. I just meant that I'd mentioned it a lot on the forum and some people are probably rolling their eyes now and going "we know we know!" when I mention my sister and the medicines she takes.
Edited by Lynx4 (05/15/08 03:18 AM)
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#699127 - 05/15/08 07:45 PM
Re: A couple questions, any help appreciated.
[Re: Lynx4]
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Calbildo1
Newbie
Registered: 04/18/08
Posts: 46
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You're right...I forgot to mention that my personal migraine cure, after my husband even gave up and had me admitted 3 times in the mid-90's, for days of inpatient treatment, was to get rid of the stress, live authentically, and learn to say, No. Mine were so bad I usually bled from the nose, and once had capillaries break behind the eyes, very gruesome, but I stopped swallowing what I meant to say all the time and the physical pressure abated. Read or watch Bill Moyers's interview with Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, a great remedy for all kinds of ills. Best to Sis. Mine was 60 today, looks 40, cheerful, amazing.
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#699161 - 05/15/08 09:33 PM
Re: A couple questions, any help appreciated.
[Re: mentoramy05]
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Calbildo1
Newbie
Registered: 04/18/08
Posts: 46
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I think we were both talking about the high incidence of rebound pain with hydrocodone, and evolving into a nasty diagnosis of intractable migraine. Whether it's a true classical migraine with onsets that coincide with changes in barometric pressure, menses, post-coital, visual fields, olfactory nerves, etc., or tension headaches, has a great deal to do with the most effective treatment...My husband did everything from right temporal Botox injections, which I loved for the Wed. leftovers had to be used, by my sister and me, or wasted, to Demoral injections desperate patients could be trusted with and did well on, to magnesium, to biofeedback, but deciding whether pain's migranal, situational, etc. was key to finding the best protocol.
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#699171 - 05/15/08 09:51 PM
Re: A couple questions, any help appreciated.
[Re: mentoramy05]
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Calbildo1
Newbie
Registered: 04/18/08
Posts: 46
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Sorry, forgot, I saw a couple of your posts and thought you might be interested, esp. if you have migraines come on when the barometric pressure drops, before storms, changing altitudes, flying, etc. I still have a lot of temporal pressure when the pressure's below 29%...I read an article about migraine "weatherheads," why it occurs mostly in females, said it's an evolutionary device that started in hunter-gatherer societies, when Fred and Barney stayed in the cave doing whatever, and the women who were out on the plain, bringing in the bacon with cave-kids on the hip, devolved ways of getting kids and bacon back to the cave before storms rolled in....since pain's an effective warning of imminent danger, Wilma and Betty learned to correspond pain from veinal and arterial swelling with the declining barometric pressure that'd caused it, and run the bacon and Bam-Bam back to the cave.
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#699180 - 05/15/08 10:20 PM
Re: A couple questions, any help appreciated.
[Re: Kotee]
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Calbildo1
Newbie
Registered: 04/18/08
Posts: 46
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Some guides say Tramadol's not addictive, but most say it is, and is one of the most abused meds, with a truly hellish withdrawal..The pharmacist at my grandmother's hospital said just this morning that it's the next med due to be scheduled, don't remember when he said, but you can google it. All the information though says it's contraindicated with narcotics and will provoke withdrawal symptoms if it's mixed, so a little of both's a large bad idea. It was the first thing I tried after a herniated disc-traction ordeal, and it did nothing but bring on sensations of dread and a kind of disorganized panic, and a vague nausea, like a rough '78 flashback. I'd look up the information about the upcoming scheduling and any other support for a change, and take it to the doc., or find another. I don't know how you'd shift with an online provider, but Jeff from ConsultsDirect is very straightforward and would know the chance of their md transitioning you to something effective. Good luck.
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#699292 - 05/16/08 07:01 AM
Re: A couple questions, any help appreciated.
[Re: Calbildo1]
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RubixCubeTO
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/14/07
Posts: 1177
Loc: MEAN PEOPLE SUCK!!
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Sorry, forgot, I saw a couple of your posts and thought you might be interested, esp. if you have migraines come on when the barometric pressure drops, before storms, changing altitudes, flying, etc. I still have a lot of temporal pressure when the pressure's below 29%...I read an article about migraine "weatherheads," why it occurs mostly in females, said it's an evolutionary device that started in hunter-gatherer societies, when Fred and Barney stayed in the cave doing whatever, and the women who were out on the plain, bringing in the bacon with cave-kids on the hip, devolved ways of getting kids and bacon back to the cave before storms rolled in....since pain's an effective warning of imminent danger, Wilma and Betty learned to correspond pain from veinal and arterial swelling with the declining barometric pressure that'd caused it, and run the bacon and Bam-Bam back to the cave.
you have a most fascinating way with words 
thanks for the belly laugh - I needed that
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Peace,
~Rubix~
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#700934 - 05/19/08 01:13 PM
Re: A couple questions, any help appreciated.
[Re: martind]
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Kotee
Journeyman
Registered: 03/23/08
Posts: 54
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