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Every month I end up playing the game of "will they have my medicine?" and regularly have to drive around different pharmacies to find one that can fill the pre
by alasdair_ 6y ago
Every month I end up playing the game of "will they have my medicine?" and regularly have to drive around different pharmacies to find one that can fill the prescription that day (because they only fill one every thirty days, and there is exactly a thirty day supply given, so there is zero buffer).
This becomes far more problematic if I have to travel for work (which was very common pre-COVID) and I'd literally have to drive an hour to a 24hr pharmacy and wait until 12.01am on the day of my flight, then wait half an hour to get the prescription filled, drive an hour home, then leave at 5.30am to get my morning flight.
And if the refill date occurs when I am away, I'm SOL - CA won't take a prescription from WA for a controlled substance. I usually have to ask my wife to go in early to pick it up, then spend a ton of money to overnight the medicine to my hotel.
There needs to be a system that allows for people who have been taking the same stuff for years to have SOME kind of buffer or slight flexibility. The current system is bullshit.
- GordonS 6y ago> Every month I end up playing the game of "will they have my medicine?" and regularly have to drive around different pharmacies to find one that can fill the prescription that day (because they only fill one every thirty days, and there is exactly a thirty day supply given, so there is zero buffer) This is an utterly absurd situation - surely the people coming up with this stuff must realise this? If anything, stupidity like this could actually cause more people to go to the black market.
- alasdair_ 6y agoIt is deeply annoying for me. What is genuinely enraging however, is when my son runs out and we can’t get him his medicine. His symptoms are honestly pretty bad and he is aware of them but can’t do anything about it. Hearing him ask “daddy, why can’t I have my medicine?” is both heartbreaking and enraging. In the end, we asked the doctor, who agreed to issue us a slightly different prescription for him a few days after we filled the first one. This let us get the second prescription Refilled immediately so we thankfully have a small buffer for him now. Laws like this are bullshit.
- CBLT 6y agoThis reminds me of Gabe Newell's famous quote, "Piracy is a service problem." If you could buy your medicine illegally as easily as people pirate digital goods, you absolutely would.
- alasdair_ 6y agoI have seriously considered buying a buffer quantity on one of the various TOR-based markets.
- waterside81 6y agoIf you don't mind me asking, what's the drug/medication?
- alasdair_ 6y agoFor me, just adderall. I won’t die if I don’t get it but I have fairly bad symptoms if I miss a dose.
- sizzle 6y agoThis is an insidious predicament to be in, having once been through this myself. I take it you are also forced to make the decision to burn meds to be able to function while driving to and from pharmacies or face life altering withdrawals to conserve your 30 day supply while you are navigating this BS pharmacy refill circus act we find ourselves subjected to when filling a script we've been on for years, yet met with disdain or a watchful eye meant to keep tabs on a suspected criminal/drug seeker by an overworked and grossly understaffed pharmacy tech who acts as a gatekeeper to getting it filled and will give you a hard time if you are from out of town. We aren't opioid addicts abusing the system and putting a strain on tax payers, we need this stuff to be a functional and contributing member of society because our brains don't produce enough dopamine for myriad reasons. Why subject us to this hell every 30 days, we need medical reform NOW!