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#778673 - 10/04/08 04:35 PM
Re: Online Consultation Services that deliver scripts and not meds. DS. List of sites, Q&A, comments
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Banned. Shill that should post as a rep and stop shilling for own sites
Journeyman
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#821343 - 12/27/08 03:19 PM
Re: Online Consultation Services that deliver scripts and not meds. DS. List of sites, Q&A, comments
[Re: curlymop]
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GRAND Pooh-Bah
Registered: 05/16/02
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they have been saying that are out of 7.5/500 for the last week. Has anyone heard of shortages of this medication? Yes, up North at least. My face-to-face Doctor has prescribed that for the last 3 months. The first time the pharmacist told me there was a "problem with the prescription". She said she couldn't tell me what "the problem" was. When I pressed for an answer, the pharmacist finally said that there was no such thing as 7.5/500 hydrocodone. After I provided proof that it existed, she acknowledged there was such a thing, but they would have to order it. The pharmacist I've had the bad luck to deal with also believes that 7.5/500 hydrocodone is Schedule 4  Originally, I was prescribed 90 10/500 hydrocodone. A different pharmacist at the chain was leery of filling what she referred to as a "large amount of narcotics" when calling "headquarters" for advice and suggested that she could "substitute" a "Schedule 4 prescription like 5/500"  I check their name tags and these are indeed pharmacists and not pharmacy techs. The disparity of knowledge depending on the pharmacist you encounter is disturbing. ------ Between the 2 branches of this major chain pharmacy that are in my county, they have never been able to fill the entire prescription of 90 at once. I've needed to make up to 3 trips to 2 different branches over a number of days in order to get the entire prescription. It is an annoyance. ------- The Doctor told me that I should Notify the pharmacy a few days before he issues a prescription so that they can get the order process going, but I can't see the pharmacy taking "instructions" from the patient like that. I'd feel like a fool doing that and fear I'd be told I don't have the authority to tell them what to order a week before the prescription is issued. In a just world, the pharmacy should realize the need to stock a sufficient amount of the 7.5/500 hydrocodone since at least one customer has required it monthly of late. However, I later learned that even major chain pharmacies are bound by quotas as far as what percentage of controlled medications they can have on hand. ------ I'm in a major metropolitan area also, but since the Doctor has been mailing the prescription in to that pharmacy chain, I feel kind of stuck with them. We patients are in the sorry position where we fear that specifying another pharmacy chain midstream would make us appear "suspicious". I don't know if other major chains in the area would be more likely to stock it either. Even when we do things "right", we walk on eggshells fearing we may be be accused of doing something "wrong" if we "make waves". After all, we should be grateful that we are getting any treatment in this sad environment that has been created around us. ------ A wise pharmacist was more forthcoming and stated once that a complicated formula is now in place for how much of any controlled substance can be on-hand based on volume and ratios of controlled prescriptions vs. non-controlled prescriptions filled. The pharmacies may be allocating their limited quotas for the more often prescribed formulations. -------- So you are not alone.... patient2all
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#917994 - 08/14/09 01:57 AM
Re: Online Consultation Services that deliver scripts and not meds. DS. List of sites, Q&A, comments
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#965433 - 11/18/09 10:21 PM
Re: Online Consultation Services that deliver scripts and not meds. DS. List of sites, Q&A, comments
[Re: Reggie7]
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