Pharmacy Phckup
Oct. 29th, 2004 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenSo I went to http://www.cvs.com/ to order a prescription refill last night, planning to pick it up today. Fortunately I called them when I was halfway there, because they told me they could not give me more pills, because the ones from before were supposed to last until Nov. 11th. I patiently and carefully explained that the doctor said to take three at every meal, three times a day, and that I had carefully counted them out into one of those weekly pill organizers with several chambers for each day. They said they didn't care. They kept asking again and again what the date of purchase was on the bottle. I explained I didn't have the bottle with me. Because I had a pill organizer. But they said even if they did give me more pills now, the insurance would not cover it.
I patiently said that I had not spilled any, and had counted carefully. They were still all, "the insurance won't cover it". And I'm thinking, what, do they think I'm Narcin' Out? Don't they know that it is impossible to narc out on Propylthioracil? What would be the point? At most you'd make your thyroid problems a little worse. I mean, I'm sure they weren't *really* thinking that, but still -- one imagines that they assume the worst of everyone, given that some people are narcing out on prescription oxycontin or whatever the hell it's called, and dozens of other drugs. Better safe than sorry, I'm sure.
So I drove home to get the original prescription bottle, stormed over to the pharmacy, and showed them said bottle. And my pill organizer. "See right here on election day? I won't have any pills that day. See?" Finally they looked more closely at the prescription label and realized that some pharmacist last time had read "180 pills" as "100 pills" -- totally understandable, as in some fonts, the zero and the eight do look a bit similar. I mean, they didn't look similar to me, but whatever. So they gave me my 80 pills, and I counted them right there in the store before I left. And they didn't even charge me for it.
Basically, they ADMITTED that they made a mistake. BWAHhahaha.
I patiently said that I had not spilled any, and had counted carefully. They were still all, "the insurance won't cover it". And I'm thinking, what, do they think I'm Narcin' Out? Don't they know that it is impossible to narc out on Propylthioracil? What would be the point? At most you'd make your thyroid problems a little worse. I mean, I'm sure they weren't *really* thinking that, but still -- one imagines that they assume the worst of everyone, given that some people are narcing out on prescription oxycontin or whatever the hell it's called, and dozens of other drugs. Better safe than sorry, I'm sure.
So I drove home to get the original prescription bottle, stormed over to the pharmacy, and showed them said bottle. And my pill organizer. "See right here on election day? I won't have any pills that day. See?" Finally they looked more closely at the prescription label and realized that some pharmacist last time had read "180 pills" as "100 pills" -- totally understandable, as in some fonts, the zero and the eight do look a bit similar. I mean, they didn't look similar to me, but whatever. So they gave me my 80 pills, and I counted them right there in the store before I left. And they didn't even charge me for it.
Basically, they ADMITTED that they made a mistake. BWAHhahaha.