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Pete, you can request a tracking number on your hydrocodone and then follow it as it goes through the mail. I am always informed of the exact day that mine will be delivered. It is usually late and I have to sweat it out unitl it shows up. I hate this meds through the mail business. They have also changed our travel pay to the mail and thirty days later I am still waiting to be paid. Maybe they are trying to help out the Post Office by spending God knows how much of the VA money mailing drugs and checks that can easily be picked up while you are there. It is frustrating but we have no choice. My morphine comes UPS and the day it is due, I don't dare leave the house because they give me a 12 hr window when they MIGHT show up.

I am currently on pain meds and have a pain contract with my doctor at the VA. Last night I went to the local Emergency Room (VA is an hour and a half drive away and my car is broken). I was diagnosed with pancreatitis and while there given dilaudid IV and then sent home with 2 percocet and a prescription for 30 oxycodone 5mg. I am currently on a regimen of Morphine Sulfate 15mg x 2 daily and vicodin 5mg for break through pain. Not sure whether I am "allowed" to fill this prescription, I called the Dr at the VA first thing this morning. Unfortunately, she is off today. The nurse, who has only been working there for six weeks) could only say, "I don't know. You'll have to wait until tomorrow to talk to the doctor". No help at all. Reading the pain mgt contract, it says that I am allowed to take narcotics prescribed in an emergency situation. May I fill it? Will there be repercussions? I am not particularly enamored of layng her in horrible pain waiting for my Dr to show up tomorrow, however, I don't want to get in trouble and have my meds yanked out from under me for violating the contract. I would appreciate all opinions or, especially, experience with this problem. Thanks