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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 18, 2009, 04:29:43 PM
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Oh my.
Ms. Ed, the unappellated eohippus, one of the two biggest liars on Skins's island.
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-18-09 04:54 PM
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Your life is only worth a $25 gift card
Went to the pharmacy to pick up a couple of scripts after I went to the Doctor.
My doc and I had talked about trying a third medication for my asthma because it is starting to worsen...however, he said we would go ahead and wait on it for now.
So when I get to the pharmacy, they told me there were 3 scripts. So, I assume that the doc changed his mind on the third one. I got halfway home and was sitting at a traffic light and I glance through them to see what he ordered.
Flomax. Hmmm...this is a drug that is typically given to men for prostate issues. To start with, I am a woman.
Here is the specific warning on the drug: FLOMAX capsules are not indicated for use in women. Not to mention, it interacts with a specific medication that I already take.
So, anyway, I called the pharmacist and ask him about this. I noticed on the top, this medication was called 10 minutes AFTER my other medicines were phoned in. I rationalized that perhaps my physician had a change of heart and decided to put me on the medication after all.
So I asked the pharmacist about it, he said that it was a medication for urinary symptoms. So then I ask him about the interaction with the OTHER medication that I take (that is specifically contraindicated).
He told me I needed to talk to my physician. I then asked if there was ANY other respiratory condition that this medication is given for--he said no, but I needed to talk to my doctor. You could tell he was a little exasperated that I kept asking HIM questions when my doctor could surely answer them better than he could.
My last question to him was the zinger. Can you make ABSOLUTELY sure that this was MY medication before I call my doctor. A heavy sigh followed a "be right back"...then THAT was followed by an "Oh my gosh. It isn't your medication at all and can you please bring it back". Sigh.
Now, follow me here. ANY lay person could rationalize this medication FLOMAX as a possible respiratory medication. That is frightening.
I know better and I almost rationalized it.
So, for all my trouble, I got my $60 back and a $25 gift card (which did come in handy), but a paltry sum when you think of the implications if I had gone home and taken my 90 days of medication that the pharmacy prescribed for me.
Be careful when you are getting a new medication from the pharmacy that you are not expecting. It could spare you some unpleasant side effects.
glowing (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-18-09 04:59 PM
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1. Isn't that the medicine that women who are pregnant can't even handle?
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-18-09 05:01 PM
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2. Yes.
As if Ms. Ed, the high priestess of Moloch to the primitives, is worried.
MercutioATC (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-18-09 05:07 PM
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3. I agree that the pharmacist should have caught it (especially since it wasn't your scrip) but taking meds IS a shared responsibility.
I'd never tale a pill that my doctor has supposedly prescribed without knowing what it was and why he prescribed it.
franksolich has taken only prescriptions for penicillin, when offered a batch of them (in a case requiring antibiotics), and tosses the ones for chemical pharmaceuticals, usually pain-killers, into the wastebasket outside the front of the medical building.
yy4me (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-18-09 05:11 PM
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4. Because of mess-ups before, I bring my medication inserts with me when I pick up a new RX. I once had a Walmart screw up on a medication that said specifically "not to be taken with" another medication I was on. I realized it when I got home and read the insert. I went right back. The Walmart pharmacist would do nothing about it. Said it was my Doc's fault.
The mix up may well have been my Doc's fault initially but they should have caught it. He would not refund my money. Don't trust those "automatically checks for drug interactions" boasts by pharmacies
I am now a Target Pharmacy customer.
But under 0bamacare, the whyme primitive is probably going to have to go back to Wal-Mart. It saves money.
Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-18-09 05:13 PM
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5. There was a woman that was given the wrong prescription
I forget which pharmacy but it made her very sick. I believe she was in a wheel chair. She sued and won millions of dollars. She almost died.
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-18-09 05:16 PM
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6. If it is the one I am thinking of
It was Eckerds--they gave a women seizure medication in a mislabeled bottle. She picked it up on her lunch hour and took the first dose, then suffered grand mal seizures at work.
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Wow. She is basically admitting that she almost went home and started taking a medication that specifically states: Not meant for women??
They must know how stoopid they are?
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Well, if you didn't look like a female to male transexual maybe it wouldn't have happened. Doctors used to be able to tell the difference between females and males. Now, not so much.