RANT....they are young, stupid, and obey the computers [View all]

[dixiegrrrrl]

Last edited Thu Jan 9, 2014, 10:14 PM - Edit history (1)

Nothing makes steam pour out of my ears as much as morons in charge of something they do not understand and who will lie thru their teeth to avoid admitting they do not understand it, and will always carry out illogical orders..
" just doing my job, but I don't understand it well enough to be able to discuss it with you...move along, move along".

Spent this afternoon dealing with %$#@! pharmacy.
They did not fill my Elavil, a tri-cyclic anti-depressant, which I take in the very low dose of 50 mg. at night
for post Shingles pain.
"it is considered a drug that can be abused. and your insurance company won't allow us to fill it before the end of the prescription cycle"
spoken with a firm and very assured tone, by rote.

"But I don't have insurance, I pay cash"

"oh.........uhhh......hold on a minute..I will let the pharmacist talk with you."
click. 5 minutes crawl by...
Pharmacist comes on...a very young woman with that unfortunate high nasal voice that is all too common down here...pierces eardrums.
" We can't fill a controlled substance before a certain date of end of your prescription cycle.
The computer won't let us".

.Me:" Wait a minute, I was told it was an insurance rule, and since I don't have insurance......."
Pharmacist: "Well...( paused for a few seconds, whispered conversation with the first woman I had talked to)
it's both an insurance and our rule. We can fill it tomorrow"

Me: "but I don't want to have to drive to the other end of town..in the pouring rain... ..AGAIN- which is why I used your phone system to refill ALL my scripts at one time"
Pharmacist: "What you need to do is call before you come out to pick them up, just to make sure there are no problems".

I have done that...they have lied and said all scripts were there,then I drove down to find they are not all there.

I looked up the med....guess what? It is NOT a controlled substance, according to the internet.

I suspect they were out of it and would not admit it.

But the Flexeril, which I have tons of re=fills for, IS a drug that can be abused. Warnings galore about abuse.
And the dumb doc wrote me 7 re-fills, so now I have enough on hand to kill a horse.
I rarely take it, it makes me feel too blah the next day, but it does a good job of knocking out muscle pain at night when needed.
Plus I have a prescribed Cox 2 inhibitor which does wonders for joint pain..except it carries HUGE warnings about side effects and it makes you retain water like an elephant, so the doc said I could double my diuretic, which carries warnings of side effects.........
But god forbid I re-fill the one drug I take that has no side effects at such a low dose, and actually works well.

However, tomorrow I CAN pick up the med, cause it will be 5 days before the script runs out...but not pick it up today, with is 6 days before the script runs out.

And if I wanted to get high, it sure as hell would not be an anti-depressant.
I would be growing weed.





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