Re: Wrong Prescription

I am still waiting for a return call from the pharmacy. I have called
them 3 times now and I get an excuse that the supervisor is busy, but
will call me back.

I get many meds from this company and they have my credit card on
file. They are supposed to notify me if they don't have a generic
equivalent. They did not.

The same generic drug I have been taking for over a year, turns out,
has another time-release type that does not come in generic. I was
prescribed that one by mistake.

They say that it was what the doctor ordered. Even if that is true,
the mistake could have been prevented had they notified me that there
was no generic equivalent.

I have called my last time. I plan to dispute the charge on my credit
card and buy my drugs elsewhere in the future.


On May 10, 1:49 am, Debs <YOURFOOTdebs02...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't understand what the problem is with the pharmacy if they
actually filled the prescription that the Dr wrote. Then the problem
would be with the Dr for writing the wrong scrip. I take it he didn't
talk to you at your appt about switching you to a timed release version?
Debs



OldGoat wrote:
Dear Terry,

Definitely be cool about it. You have the drugs and I assume an invoice
which has yet to be paid, similar to the 12+ invoices they have had done you
all the previous times. There is a precedent for the generic and if there
was any question they should have called you or the doctor for conformation.
If you get a hard time make a deal. You'll pay them the amount you have been
paying for well over a year or you can pay them nothing and find another
mail order service. They can't send anyone after them as "possession of
drugs by any person other than the prescribed is a violation of Federal
Law". It says so on every Rx. You certainly wouldn't want to become an
accessory to a felony, and they shouldn't ask you to do so. Yes, it's a lot
of hot air, but it is also very very true (look at any Rx bottle, it's there
in the tiniest of fonts but it is there) They can do the right thing or you
can do the right thing, but it won't involve $212. Suppose it was insulin
you were sent instead of high blood pressure meds? Would you be "out of
luck" then, as well?

Don't taste what they're shoveling--og

"Terry" <kilow...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1178639869.289422.263140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I get my meds mail order. I have been taking the same drug for over a
year. At this doctor's visit, the doctor wrote my prescription for a
time release version of the same drug I had been taking.

The name brand kind cost 5 times more. It was 212$ for a 3 month
supply.

The bottles still have the safety seals on them, but the pharmacy says
that because they filled the prescription for what the doctor ordered
that I could be stuck.

They are "checking into it" and I am supposed to hear the finial word
tomorrow. I haven't called the doctor yet, but I will after the
pharmacy officially tells me there is nothing they can do.

Anyone else have similar problems that have been resolved without
eating the cost of meds they can't use?

Thanks-


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