my roommate Gets the worst headaches… he gets cranky,annoyed,and overall difficult to be around. I never had a migraine myself so I can’t imagine what it feels like.
midterms are done and spring break rolls around… the most wonderful time of the year.
he decides to go home (we’re in college) and apparently his family cannot stand him when he has these episodes of headaches (while I enjoy an apartment to myself!)
he is prescribedFioricet which apparently works well for him…I assumed he just took aspirin. it appears that this drug is regulated as schedule III.
I get a call from him early this afternoon. His parents one of town and he had people over AKA WILD PARTY.
while cleaning up today, he realized, that someone swped his migraine medicine. I don’t know why because I breezed through the wiki and it didn’t seem to say anything about narcotics or anything like that which would give me the impression that its painkiller… anyway that’s the background,not the question.
this question is actually coming from me because it made me wonder…can you go back to his doctor to get another prescription based on circumstances? I guess he is two doctors… not doctor shopping, but one at school and one at home.
I guess I’ll ask the specific questions then generalizing into one big one at the end.
here is a very important disclaimer: he pays (his rich parents do) out of pocket,no insurance he also declined his school’s insurance (since the check was sent to his local address, being him, a broke college student)
one: he is a pretty trustworthy guy,good grades,no drugs,rarely drinks. bylaw, can his doctor prescribed him either the remaining amount for the month or a completely new prescription?
**two: **does the fact that this drug is scheduled to play into that factor? if his medicine were scheduled to (I don’t know the terminology) a less serious schedule, (is lesser schedule IV or II? by the way)
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three: what about generic versus name brand it he cannot be (terminology sucks again) ‘represcribed’
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four: if he cannot get the medicine again, can he just wait to go back to his school Dr. (in a difference state) and get it prescribed there? or is there communication? as far as I now, his two doctors have different records but both know his condition. which state would consider this sense it’s prescribed and filled at college but the other state is his home?
**five: **in terms of getting it filled, what are the pharmacy policies? will it raise a red flag? (not literally 
)between states?
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six:**can he get it filled in his original pharmacy (same doctor different prescription same medicine etc.) more of the factors that would change that? generic versus brand? maybe there is a different medicine which works in the same way?
seven: can the “at-home Dr.” prescribe in a similar medication if he knows situation? an example, in my ignorant head would be someone walking into their doctors office and saying “someone stole my Tylenol three” and the doctor saying "that’s OK already you a prescription for morphine (just kidding, vicodin was the example that I was going to give)
in that situation, would the pharmacy then be an issue?
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eight:** isn’t there a similar medication for migraines?
**nine: **the whole schedule situation… is that more about pharmacies or doctors?
can he get the same prescription two times in a month from one doctor and one pharmacy? how about same question but to pharmacies?
well, that certainly turned into more questions than I expected. I just don’t deal with a roommate who comes back to have to live with crabby attitude until refill time.
okay I said I would summarize, doctors discretion or pharmacy discretion? which state accounts for the regulation…actually, I asked too many questions… in the summary caveat is now void