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Well that's... counterproductive
My migraine medication is giving me a headache. I went to get the prescription refilled today, since last month they could only give me 30 pills (usually I get a hundred). Annoying, but I need to get my asthma medication refilled once a month anyway, so it wasn't actually adding an extra errand.
Well, fortunately I got in the habit of checking the bag before I leave the pharmacy after a couple incidents where they refilled the wrong prescription. So I was actually still at the counter when I realized that the inhaler was there but the pills weren't (the price also sounded like it was just the inhaler, but the migraine pills are only about a dollar with my drug plan so I wouldn't necessarily have noticed).
So they got the pharmacist for me and he explained that they don't have my dosage anywhere in the province. I'm on 10 mg and the only thing they have right now is the 25 mg pills. So what they've been stuck doing is having people cut the 25 mg pills in half (which is going to suck, because I have a feeling they won't be that much bigger than the 10 mg pills I take. I also suspect I am going to suck at this and will thus be all over the place in terms of alertness.)
But of course, they can't just give people the 25 mg pills on a prescription for the 10s. They need the doctor to okay the change. And since I go through Student Health, there's no guarantee the doctor who wrote the prescription was even there. They were supposed to call the lab if they managed to get ahold of her... so I'm guessing from the fact that I have no drugs that she wasn't in today. I guess I'll call myself tomorrow. I hope she's there, we're going into a long weekend.
Well, fortunately I got in the habit of checking the bag before I leave the pharmacy after a couple incidents where they refilled the wrong prescription. So I was actually still at the counter when I realized that the inhaler was there but the pills weren't (the price also sounded like it was just the inhaler, but the migraine pills are only about a dollar with my drug plan so I wouldn't necessarily have noticed).
So they got the pharmacist for me and he explained that they don't have my dosage anywhere in the province. I'm on 10 mg and the only thing they have right now is the 25 mg pills. So what they've been stuck doing is having people cut the 25 mg pills in half (which is going to suck, because I have a feeling they won't be that much bigger than the 10 mg pills I take. I also suspect I am going to suck at this and will thus be all over the place in terms of alertness.)
But of course, they can't just give people the 25 mg pills on a prescription for the 10s. They need the doctor to okay the change. And since I go through Student Health, there's no guarantee the doctor who wrote the prescription was even there. They were supposed to call the lab if they managed to get ahold of her... so I'm guessing from the fact that I have no drugs that she wasn't in today. I guess I'll call myself tomorrow. I hope she's there, we're going into a long weekend.
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(Sorry for my pathetic attempt at humor...)
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