K, so I see posts wayyyy to often where the OP is crying and miserable about the way their pharmacy treats them like shit and never is on top of making sure they have your meds available and/or ready for you come refill day.
If this is ever the case, you need to fire your pharmacy and find a better one. Usually, smaller mom+pop or smaller local chains will appreciate your business and help you ideally with these things without you even having to ask (or only requiring one-time orientation on what your preferences are as they relate to servics they usually do or should be offering:
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fill your meds automatically without you having to ask
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ensuring it is in stock without you having to worry in order for them to fill said refills
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advise you of any complications or further steps required of you to help them make sure you’re taken care of and consistent with refills
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remind YOU about shit, not the other way around. My pharmacy might as well be my unpaid intern/executive assistant with all things medical as they pertain to my business/the privelege of getting said business I grant them
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delivery: this is non-negotiable. If they ain’t delivering, I ain’t playin’. My pharmacy knows that to be my drug dealer, they gotta come to me. Cuz I ain’t leaving the couch to get my drugs
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deal with dr for you if any discrepancy or error is in the way. This is the beauty of medical practices with adjoining pharms. Ethics be damned, vertical/horizontal integration 4 the win!
That is all. Your pharmacy should feel so lucky to have a good get like AD(H)D patients, I would rather have that then a money printer if I was a pharmacy owner.
Spread the word and f all that noise. You are worthy to be waited on and catered to, controlled substance or otherwise.
Not sure if this is cogent but I take rhe 2nd rarest (prescribed/available) medication next to Desoxyn and I’ve never had an issue getting it filled, even in the depths of the Great Adderall Shortage although it wasn’t Adderall so not sure how relevant my n=1 is this context
America is soooooo weird in this regard, I feel for them, I really do :-(
Here I’m the UK our pharmacy (chemists) are highly qualified professionals who know what they’re doing (not to suggest they aren’t in the US, I just want to temper the mundane thing I’m about to say about them a bit as I’m generalising), but their job for all it’s complexities and specialised stuff is this:
They dispense whatever medication is on my prescription.
That’s it, that’s their job, they don’t get further involved. I give them my prescription, they say okay come back in 30 minutes we’ll have it ready for you, and then I come back, pay the flat £9.65 fee (no matter what medication it is, it’s always £9.65), and I go on my way.
That’s it. They don’t try to take the place of my doctor and perform their own counter-diagnosis, they don’t make random decisions about whether I should have my medication or not based on prejudices etc, their job is just to grab the box of pills or whatever, stick them into a bag with my name on it and hand them to me.
It boggles my mind that over there your pharmacists are often some kinda wild weirdos that think they’re able to step in to your doctor’s role, or have any say in your medical care, etc. It’s wild, and I’m so sorry you have to experience that ridiculousness.
I honestly don’t know why your country isn’t in uproar over it, considering how prevalent and deep rooted the issue seems to be. If our pharmacists all suddenly started behaving that way we’d go mental, the nationwide scandal would be huge 😅
🫂 Stay safe out there and always stand up for yourself, you’re important!
Its super annoying to me when pharmacists get uppity. Its like, is there a vending machine with a little less attitude I can interface with in the alternative?!
Don’t get me wrong, I generally get along with pharms famously cuz they know I know what I’m talking about and I gently but assertively refuse to play any games. Its like, I came here for x,y,z and I expect to obtain such and I’d like to know a,b,c aha. I just generally have little patience for gatekeeper and folks who attempt to impede me from doing what I need to do.
Its like, you gotta pay for that shit, I’m nobody’s plaything for free, even then, I was always the shittiest of doormats 👹