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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 418072" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>This has been going on since my second rx of this medication over 18 months ago (I just looked at my records of receipts from these medications.). I have spoken to the owner (a Ph. D pharmacist), and each of the other pharmacists. I have only had 5 months where the right amt of medications came home. husband is the one who picks them up for me and since 2 ibuprofen knock him out, I am positive he is not taking them. On ONE occasion Jessie was holding the bag after picking it up and they had given a non-childproof bottle and it spilled in the sealed bag because the lid wasn't on (the lid was defective and I had to use an older bottle because neither husband nor I could get the lid to stay on). We searched the car and didn't find any spilled pills and it was short over 50 pills! That was about 9 mos ago.</p><p> </p><p>I have not written letters but have called and called and called. So I discussed it with my new family practice doctor and his PA and head nurse. We are seeing them because the new insurance. They were shocked at how long I have put up with it. They did tell me to NOT use Walmart pharmacy if I ever needed to get the medications on a tight schedule. The PA's daughter is in pharmacy school and she was a tech at a walmart pharmacy for a semester. If you walk in at 9:01 and are the first person in line you will NOT get your medications for a minimum of 45 minutes - even if you are hte only customer in the store. It is store policy to keep you in the store because the longer you are there the more you will buy. Apparently this was in the employee manual as a written directive for pharmacy training!! I don't have that kind of time to waste getting a prescription much of the time.</p><p> </p><p>My medications have to be counted out. they are not in a foil pack. They do come in bottles of 100, but I get more than that so they dump them out and count them with the additional medications. It makes it a LOT easier to swipe them, in my opinion. </p><p> </p><p>Each time I call about this I get hassled and more and more treatment like a drug seeking addict than a chronic pain patient following the directions of her doctor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 418072, member: 1233"] This has been going on since my second rx of this medication over 18 months ago (I just looked at my records of receipts from these medications.). I have spoken to the owner (a Ph. D pharmacist), and each of the other pharmacists. I have only had 5 months where the right amt of medications came home. husband is the one who picks them up for me and since 2 ibuprofen knock him out, I am positive he is not taking them. On ONE occasion Jessie was holding the bag after picking it up and they had given a non-childproof bottle and it spilled in the sealed bag because the lid wasn't on (the lid was defective and I had to use an older bottle because neither husband nor I could get the lid to stay on). We searched the car and didn't find any spilled pills and it was short over 50 pills! That was about 9 mos ago. I have not written letters but have called and called and called. So I discussed it with my new family practice doctor and his PA and head nurse. We are seeing them because the new insurance. They were shocked at how long I have put up with it. They did tell me to NOT use Walmart pharmacy if I ever needed to get the medications on a tight schedule. The PA's daughter is in pharmacy school and she was a tech at a walmart pharmacy for a semester. If you walk in at 9:01 and are the first person in line you will NOT get your medications for a minimum of 45 minutes - even if you are hte only customer in the store. It is store policy to keep you in the store because the longer you are there the more you will buy. Apparently this was in the employee manual as a written directive for pharmacy training!! I don't have that kind of time to waste getting a prescription much of the time. My medications have to be counted out. they are not in a foil pack. They do come in bottles of 100, but I get more than that so they dump them out and count them with the additional medications. It makes it a LOT easier to swipe them, in my opinion. Each time I call about this I get hassled and more and more treatment like a drug seeking addict than a chronic pain patient following the directions of her doctor. [/QUOTE]
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