So after my Emergency Room Surprise Visit when my neck came apart, I'd called the neurosurgery clinic to see if I could get more methylprednisolone (steroid anti-inflammatory, aka. Medrol) to cover the gap until my scheduled appointment. They said that they don't issue prescriptions until they've seen a patient. OK, that's reasonable.
I put up with it for another day, then decided to go into the urgent care facility to see what they had to say, because it's been common (to me, at least) that the NP's will write a single short-term prescription of "benign" meds (things like cyclobenzaprine [Flexeri], diclofenac [heavier-duty NSAID], etc.) until my next scheduled appointment.
When the NP finally came in, they barely glanced at me, and immediately kept asking how much oxycodone I was taking. Odd, I guess the ER doc had written a script for 15 if necessary that I'd forgotten about, and I don't want opioids (and they're going in the med recycling bin at the pharmacy), because that would just be treating a symp