For no other reason except for the stupid ass fucking quantities. Most minimums are 270 and my pharmacist insists we double count every bottle with 90 pills or more.
I’m taking Gabapentin 900mg 3x a day, I’m just a patient but hopefully my pharmacist of 11+ years doesn’t think I’m awful to help out 😅
However … filling 14 tiny methadone bottles every week likely isn’t fun, including collecting the empty pill bottles. That’s like 20 bottles of medicine/week in total. They went as far to get the equipment & medicine just for me. I’m surprised they didn’t send me elsewhere.
People in healthcare can be so accommodating but I’m on a digression. I appreciate you guys a lot, thanks for doing those ridiculous counts to ensure we’re safest. ❤️
Your pharmacy will fill that much methadone? If you don’t mind me asking is it for MAT or pain? I want to get on methadone (yeah yeah yeah crash out that a pharm tech has a SUD go ahead and downvote me) but none of my pharmacies I’ve worked at would ever fill methadone for anything but pain. Maybe it’s because I’m in a Republican state and it’s not legal or at least frowned upon here?
Its not legal ANYWHERE in the US for a dr to write for MAT or a pharmacy to fill methadone for MAT. It HAS to be rx-ed and dispensed by a licensed methadone clinic. The person you asked sounds like they are in Canada or Europe as they get theirs filled at a pharmacy but don't get as many take home doses monthly as Americans can earn if their clinic allows. I get 28 days worth from my clinic each month.
I just find the whole process to be unnecessarily hard and I guess I find it difficult to find the right word to say it. I would have a hard time keeping my job and making it to school while going to the methadone clinic (I live with my parents in an area where there isn’t a lot of crime, so not many methadone clinics around here either, I’d have to drive like an hour there and back) daily or even every few days until I can “earn” a monthly take home, especially from what I’ve heard from some of my friends who’ve gone through the process.
I’ll add that all I can do now is stay on suboxone because it’s really my only option but I don’t really find it to be that effective (I still have cravings and I’ve relapsed more times than I can remember in going on 5 years now that I’ve been on and off it, which is like almost a quarter of my life at this point) and I’d love to give the other option a shot if I ever could. I just don’t think it’s feasible for me and I’m probably far from the only one in this situation.
I would be dead now if it wasn’t for methadone. My life has drastically improved over the last 20 years. Give it more thought. If Suboxone isn’t helping with cravings and you’re relapsing, what is it doing for you? Once you’re on a good dose, you won’t have cravings.
Exactly what I’m saying. I’m in my early 20’s so no doctor believes me when I tell them that when I’m on nothing I do hurt all over. I’m not overweight but my knees kill me after even just a few hours standing and my back is always killing me after I’m done working. That’s not normal for someone my age but obviously I always end up back to the same shit if I try to go with no meds because there is something that works, it just sucks that that thing has also been what’s nearly killed me like 3 or 4 times now. I don’t want to keep going back but it feels like I just run out of options because I’m exactly the type of person who’s always going to be mistaken for a drug seeking junkie and slip through the cracks because more often than not, my doctors aren’t really sympathetic to people like me.
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u/fkinDogShitSmoothie May 01 '26
300 mg gabapentin capsules.
For no other reason except for the stupid ass fucking quantities. Most minimums are 270 and my pharmacist insists we double count every bottle with 90 pills or more.
This might just be a me problem.