Posted by Ritch on February 15, 2003, at 22:55:48
In reply to Re: Here's how our pills are manufactured..Mitch, posted by noa on February 15, 2003, at 15:28:01
> Once, I went to fill a scrip for regular adderall. The drug store was chaotic, so I left it and went to do errands and came back well after the time they said it would be ready. But still, had to wait another hour after that. There were a lot of very unhappy people in the pharmacy waiting area.
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> Anyway, I finally got called to get my scrip. I purchased it, then before I got out of the store, I opened it to take one, since I hadn't had my dose that day. Well, lo and behold, instead of 30 medium blue pills, there were about 200 tiny white ones. I went back to the counter.
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> The first response of the clerk was that it was the correct prescription, and maybe it was the generic and I just didn't know what the generic looked like. I explained that adderall had no generic. She tried a couple of other lame attempts to brush me off, trying to get me to believe I had the right scrip, so I asked to see the pharmacist. I waited yet another interminable amount of time, and then the pharmacist came and looked into the bottle and blanched. She corrected the problem, brought me my adderall, and apologized profusely. Out of curiosity, I asked what the little white pills had been. Can you guess? Only one of the most abused substances in this country: oxyconton.
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> Well, of course, I was rather miffed. With all the hassle of getting new paper scrips for my adderall every 30 days, here this pharmacy goes and makes an error like that, loosely handing me a boatload of oxycontin. (Is oxycontin a controlled substance, btw?)
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> BTW, soon after that, I read in Newsweek that these were going for $80/pill, so if I had had such an inclination, which I don't, of course, think of the windfall I coulda made!! LOL
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> Anyway, after that, I started checking my scrips to see if the pills were the right ones. I did not start counting them, though. Some of my scrips are very large--90 days worth of pills, at 3 or 4 a day, so it would be cumbersome. Anyway, since I have been using a better pharmacy lately, I feel pretty confident that they are getting it right.Geez, all this does give me the creeps! They do have the generic Adderall that isn't made by Shire (I got those last time-the *oval* medium blue tabs). Oxycontin? I wonder if a new ploy for pharms to scam meds is to make "mistakes"? OTOH, they *are* VERY busy clicking those pills into containers behind the counters. TOO much competition to stay on insurer's lists driving them to screw up to stay competitive? The dangerous side of this: My brother has to take a diuretic to prevent water buildup around his heart and he filled his diuretic and brought it home and took it and nearly passed out. They had given him a hypertension med by mistake. He called his doctor and they told him to go to the ER if his heart rate dropped below 50. The pharmacy wanted the meds back and my siter-in-law wouldn't give them back.
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