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>Refill your medication(s), that's the biggest one. I take a prescription medication that is a controlled substance. I feel like a criminal each time I fill it

>Refill your medication(s), that's the biggest one. I take a prescription medication that is a controlled substance. I feel like a criminal each time I fill it. I'm only given exactly the amount I need for the next 30 days and it routinely causes problems when I need to travel out of state around the time of my next refill. I really wish there was some way of saying "I've been taking this stuff for years, I've clearly never abused it, please give me some buffer for emergencies."

Gibbon1 7y ago
Friend of mine was working for FEMA after Hurricane Katrina. He said he went to lots of houses where they had an elderly family remember with cancer who had run out of their pain meds. And no way to get more.
- alasdair_ 7y ago
  Wow, that is terrible.
sneak 7y ago
If I were in your shoes I would go to the black market and would secretly maintain a 90-180 day supply buffer, pandemic or no. This is clearly a case of a law that may have been well-intentioned majorly infringing upon your rights.
- exikyut 7y ago
  The problem with this is that it will cause a practical relief effect that will create a small but consistent reordering latency. "You don't seem too $symptomatic today, how did you handle the past N days?" This could be easily discerned through individual scrutiny or large-scale automated analysis.
webninja 7y ago
My girlfriend takes medications that are critical to her and there are a few effective things she done that are legal. Ups the dosage to twice as much and breaks the meds in half. Usually the price is still the same but now there’s twice as much. Stops taking the meds on some weekends to create a buffer. Asks a doctor to try another similar medications and express fear about going off the current med incase the new one doesn’t work. Unintended side effect is that you now have twice as much for that month. Gradually reduce medication dosage and occasionally stop taking it. If you can live without it you’ll be more independent.

Gibbon1 7y ago

Friend of mine was working for FEMA after Hurricane Katrina. He said he went to lots of houses where they had an elderly family remember with cancer who had run out of their pain meds. And no way to get more.

alasdair_ 7y ago
Wow, that is terrible.

sneak 7y ago

If I were in your shoes I would go to the black market and would secretly maintain a 90-180 day supply buffer, pandemic or no. This is clearly a case of a law that may have been well-intentioned majorly infringing upon your rights.

exikyut 7y ago
The problem with this is that it will cause a practical relief effect that will create a small but consistent reordering latency. "You don't seem too $symptomatic today, how did you handle the past N days?" This could be easily discerned through individual scrutiny or large-scale automated analysis.

webninja 7y ago

My girlfriend takes medications that are critical to her and there are a few effective things she done that are legal. Ups the dosage to twice as much and breaks the meds in half. Usually the price is still the same but now there’s twice as much. Stops taking the meds on some weekends to create a buffer. Asks a doctor to try another similar medications and express fear about going off the current med incase the new one doesn’t work. Unintended side effect is that you now have twice as much for that month. Gradually reduce medication dosage and occasionally stop taking it. If you can live without it you’ll be more independent.