My husband and I have been refuses our medication because the pharmacy says they only get a certain amount. And it is not a neighborhood doctor that they are familiar with. My husband and I have both been on these prescriptions for pain control and is been on them for a little while now, well on it long enough that not getting on medication may end up sending us to an emergency room that I have a feeling Will not give us medication that even for a few days. My doctor called the pharmacist in my neighborhood they called Walmart because there a national chain. My doctor has even called medications in Hawaii. He tried to get our prescriptions called in and they refused him he is has federal number, they have the medication in pharmacies in the neighborhood. And there’s a blizzard going on in from here in Pennsylvania where we are right now up the eastern seaboard we were going to leave today to go into New York, to see a doctor, actually more than one doctor. Family and due to the snow we cannot drive in there today the prescription I am speaking about is the suboxone which has to be already by computer, I have my prescription from last month that I could show them that it’s a legitimate doctor they can also call the Pharmacy guy usually using New York to find out they’ve been Fiskett prescribing it for years and they refused to do any of that my Dr. even went as far as calling Walmarts corporate office. He had no success they don’t know the doctor so therefore they will fill it but when you punch mine on my husbands name in the national computer it comes up what medications were on so we’re not Dr. hunting we’re not drug seeking these are medications that are prescribed for conditions that we have it’s legal I have last months empty prescription on me and it comes out if you put it in the computer because since come up when we’ve gone to dock is not for that medication but any doctor for any reason these look up to see what medications you’re taking so the choices to drive to New York in a blizzard, or to go without a medication which ended by 24 hours if I don’t have my next dose medication can put me into such stress on my body that I could have a stroke and seizures. We only found out that this phone was going to be this Ed left last evening so there was no time to make arrangements to come in earlier in the week. Plus my doctor was on a little bit of a vacation so he wasn’t taking patients until the fourth and fifth they had covering PAs and I was good until today with my medication and he came back yesterday. Because of disabilities the doctor is really concerned with us driving to New York to try to get on medications today Anna you’re now there are several doctors we keep in New York I has been is Disabled’s, so we keep a few doctors in New York not just this one he personally called and spoke to the pharmacist to assure her that this is it legitimate danger for us not to have a medication and or to drive to New York today. Very upset and so are we. So she is causing our bodies harm may even end up in emergency room. And they might not even be able to give us that the emergency room don’t know if they carry it . Snow is falling at 2 inches an hour with 8 inches on the ground already go to where we have to go. And my mother-in-law or who’s house were staying out when we go see the doctors and my granddaughter. Is 80 years old I cannot send her out in this whether to grab my prescriptions today from the pharmacy is my doctor was to call it in in New York I would still have no way of getting it is you have two out inches an hour there’s a blizzard going on visibility is a quarter-mile. Bottom line I need my medication I have a legal prescription and illegal doctor prescribing it who has a federal number to prescribe this medication they all have Suboxone in their pharmacies in my area but I’m not one of the regular customers they won’t even give me a 2 to 3 day supply till I can go see my doctors they’re putting my bought body and my husband’s body in danger of seizures and everything else there’s no reason for them to deny this we had the open computer system they can look into it see that the same has-beens prescribing the same medication for years they can Google him if they want and find out that he’s a very good legitimate Dr. thank you for listening hopefully you can help us with this and rectify this situation there’s power outages everywhere on top by the way my name is D M telephone number xxx.xxx.xxxx thank you in advance for your help myself phone number is xxx.xxx.xxxx thank you, by the way we’re both in our 50s were not young kids that they need to be concerned about.
The DEA has stated that pts that travel a long distant to see a prescriber or to get a prescription filled is a RED FLAG and apparently in some pharmacist’s minds…there is no extenuating circumstances that they could determine that what appears to be a RED FLAG is really an anomaly and the life’s road that everyone travels from time to time should be perfectly smooth.
The rest of us, who live in the “real world”, understand that there are no “perfect circles” in our lives and especially when mother nature gets involved.
Once again here is a website that can help anyone find a independent pharmacy by Zip Code http://www.ncpanet.org/home/find-your-local-pharmacy
Having had my own independent pharmacy for 20 yrs, I understand the mindset and they are less likely to “play games” with pt’s legit medical needs and will go “above and beyond” to see that pts are taken care of.
It is a shame that pts are going to be forced to schedule vacations and other trips around their prescription refill dates… because many pharmacists will not let you refill a prescription early because of travel plans.
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Had similar “bad” experience last weekend, script to fill on 12/31/17, both Dr and I didn’t catch this was a Sunday, my independent pharmacy is not open on Sundays. I tried reaching Dr during the week but with work and everything, we didn’t connect.
I wasn’t that concerned as I figd I just go to Walgreens. What a joke!!! First she typed and typed and typed into system, had to obviously see my nane, (I had been here in the past, many years ago), she had to see me in the register for the same script for the same quantity- one would have thought no big deal!! Oh no! She then picked up script and said is your Dr in today?? On a Sunday that happens to be new years eve, at 3pm??? I don’t imagine he is in, the reason she can’t fill his because of the quantity! She thinks I added “0” at the end of the #. Thanks for the insult!!!! His own was running out of ink! Anything to NOT FILL A SCRIPT!!
Told her if live til Tuesday, not to bother! Of course my pharm was closed new years day too. Oh well could be worse, I could not have a script at all, so ill manage.
Tuesday I go to my pharmacy, find out since its past Jan 1, insurance is all different! Could be up to a week to get reauthorization” again, anything to NOT FILL A SCRIPT!!! I said screw it and paid cash. $43 more than with my copay. Oh well, now I can deal with them.
Used to be finding a dr, one that will write a script for what you were once on, or at least a partial of what you were once prescribed. Now its finding a place to fill, if they have it, and what you will receive, and then who is going to pay for it. Nevermind the cost of insurance, the deductibles, and the copays…..
And all this time, they could just go after the ILLEGAL drug distributors and manufacturers! Help lower the amount of illegal drugs that are really killing off the population!!! But no, that would be too much like right!!!
Obviously no one is overdosing on MY medication, or what’s left to it.
They need to focus on patient responsibility and accountability.
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