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Heathcare while RVing

Question: How hard is it to travel if you are under the care of a physician for pain management? Issues with getting prescription refills on pain meds are a concern as pain doctors won't prescribe without a visit and if you are on the road, you cannot always get back to your own doctor.
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions about this?

Answer: We don't take pain medication, but for our regular medications we successfully get our regular medications on the road. We visit our regular doctor when we return anually to Florida. We use mail order services to have our prescriptions mailed to either a location where we will be staying for a while, or to our mail forwarding service. In emergencies, we have been able to have our doctor call in a prescription to a local pharmacy where we are on the road.



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Feb 01, 2012
Pain Med.
by: Carmen

My husband and I are traveling, looking at fulltime. I take oxycodone for pain, and have found myself between a rock and a very hard spot. The Dr. back home won't write without seeing me. He's on the east coast, and I am currently on the west coast, have been to a couple of clinic's here, and only spent money and time to find out they do not fill pain medicationss, and have asked point blank if they did. Any idea what type of Dr. might write a prescription for a pain medication refill?

Sep 30, 2011
Filling RX on the road
by: Anonymous

I just dealt with this situation. I was coming from Colorado and going to Texas - thinking that my doctor could call in the script to Target. Well, in Texas, if it is a narcotic med, only Texas doctors can write a script for Texas locations. That put me in a very bad situation, when you depend upon that med. So in turn,I had to find a doctor that was willing to write a script for the amount that I was accustomed to. That was very difficult. So cheap before you leap - each state is different, given the abuse of narcotic drugs lately.


Jun 09, 2011
Filling RX on the road
by: Anonymous

With all the drugstore giants (Walmart, Walgreens, CVS) we had no problem with prescriptions during our year on the road. We kept our scripts with Walmart and filled them anywhere with no problems.

May 09, 2011
Medication on the road...
by: Ralphie Boyo

Our health insurance allows us to get four months of prescription refills prior to our trip. Then we can get refills sent to us when needed. Check with your carrier and see if this will work for you. Happy and Healthy travels...

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