Went to the pharmacy to pick up my meds yesterday, and they didn’t have my anti-psychotic. This is my first major hurdle since being out of rehab, since drinking was the only way I coped with being without my anti-psychotic. What sucks is that this happened on memorial day weekend so I can’t get this solved until Tuesday. Wish me luck y’all, it’s gonna be a shitty weekend :/
But no matter how bad it gets, I’m not gonna drink about it
Sounds reasonable. That sucks.
Pharmacies are such a mess. There are 100 different systematic ways to avoid or solve this problem but I’ve never heard of any pharmacy even attempting to implement them.
You just have to show up every time and hope nothing went wrong. And they don’t like it if you do anything proactive to avoid problems. After something like this happened to me I started calling in advance a few days to check if they have stock… They hate that. First of all, nobody likes being micromanaged. Furthermore it doesn’t work with their systems because even if they have it on Tuesday, they can’t “set aside” some pills for you if the refill is due on Friday. Its due when its due. Its filled when its filled. Its available or its not.
The concept of “rationing” is so verboten but sometimes it is the right tool for the job. If 4 people need 1 months worth of meds and there is 1 month supply on hand, I’d rather get a 1 week supply to give time to sort it out, then have a 1/4 chance of being the person who gets all 4 weeks or a 3/4 chance of getting nada and up the creek. But there is no way to accommodate this kind of logic as far as I can tell.