What to do if you can't get prescriptions in time?

Contact the doctor on call at your practice. They should call you back within an hour and you will demand that they call in (or fax) and rx to the pharmacy immediately.

Don’t wait until the day you need your pills to fill them. Especially since you have had this problem in the past with this pharmacy.

Common and annoying.

You have to go to the pharmacy and call your doctor while standing there or go to your doctors office and get a hand written prescription or have them call the pharmacy while you stand there.

I had one instance where I was supposed to have 6 refills left and the pharmacy kept saying I didn’t have a refill, but then somehow when they searched more they found it.

Do you use a pharmacy app? Then you can see all your scripts in the system.

Pain pills are the least critical of all the things that come to my mind. Diabetics, cardiac patients, blood pressure, cancer medication, even thyroid patients like me can’t wait very long missing medication.

Sometimes a pharmacist will spot you 2 or 3 pills.

To solve the immediate problem, go to the pharmacy and ask to speak to a supervisor. Explain what happened and give the name of the pharmacist who helped you (or didn’t help you) when you were there the other day. Ask if they can give you a few pills till you rectify the problem on Monday.

Monday, call the doctor and tell him what happened with the nurse. The whole story. He needs to know. I had a similar problem with my daughter’s doctor’s nurse and I called and spoke to him and he called me, apologizing, and said he spoke to the nurse about how to solve the problem so it doesn’t happen again. When I called to ask to speak to the doctor, the office staff asked what the problem was, and I told them, too, so they’re all on board with the nurse’s negligence and attitude.

Good suggestions above when you’re in crisis mode, but the best thing to do—a lesson I learned a long ago after having experienced a similar problem—is always to fill your Rx’s early.

@Pachy: Good advice about filling prescriptions early, but some don’t let you fill sooner than 30 days, which does not give the patient a lot of leeway as far as time goes.

And next time, switch pharmacies. Tell the drug store you are switching because they are not able to handle refills.

My prescription for blood pressure medication is on auto-refill, and they text me when it is ready.

Same for me, @zenvelo. I always get your refill a bit before I actually need it, and if for some reason I don’t want to refill it at that time (say I don’t have the $$ just then), my pharmacy lets me cancel it even if they’ve called me to pick it up.

“Pain pills are the least critical of all the things that come to my mind. ”

You obviously don’t know what it’s like to live with severe, debilitating pain.

Turn to Jesus and believe in the healing he made available in his finished works and receive it. Then u wouldn’t need to depend on drugs at all.

If only my nurse would call back within 24 hrs…ridiculous!!!