It is the insurance company. They won't pay if you fill too soon. Remind your pharmacist that you will be without the drug over a holiday and demand you get a couple of pills now so you don't run the risk of stroke. Debra in VA See my quilts at
The ins co. probably thought you were selling the BC pills for your own gain. Debra in VA See my quilts at
Wellll ... I just thought it was a bit "Orwellian" that a pharmacist can (in some states) decide whether or not to fill your script from your *doctor* (whom most would assume would know whether you were preggers or not) based on *his* opinion.
Hugs! Connie :)
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Did the pharmacist give you any trouble about refilling it? I'd be looking for a new pharmacy if he/she did! As for the robot, my guess is that it's way easier and less expensive to program it to refuse all early refills rather than having to separately program in controlled substances and every insurance company's refill policies.
Howdy!
Polly, you Rebel. RULE BREAKER!!! System Disrupter!
(somehow I knew this about you)
I bet you've even mixed POLlYESTER w/ cotton, haven't you?
Yeah, somewhere there's a list of your renegade behavior. Ran w/ scissors. Used contrasting bobbin thread. Ate the last piece of chocolate at the party. Scraped by w/ a 3/16 seam allowance. ...there's more; we're gonna' tell all!
R/Sandy--who knows that "limited time offer" on meds refill; pharmacy calls the doc, who calls me, then calls the pharmacy who calls me to say, "Oh, it's okay; you can have the meds." *sheeze-loooweeze!*
Depends on how vigilent the doctor is, or even the nurse. I haven't been to my primary care doctor since August, maybe even July, but I have prescriptions that get used in about a month and they were all on 2 or 3 refills allowed. Given I had surgery, I've ended up calling a lot in to the pharmacy then hitting the button that says they'll fax the doctor the refill request, first couple of times I was confident it would be ok and it was, but the last time I called some in, I really thought they wouldn't be okayed and at the very least a nurse would call me, but they all got filled and the name on the label shows that it was the nurse practioner who I've only seen once who okayed them, my doctor probably doesn't even know. Given my doctor's office faxes them through anyway, I'm not sure it would even look any different at the pharmacy end to one that had been faxed through as a result of my visit.
Cheers Anne
Howdy!
So I have to convince the pharmacist that I'm just fat?
R/Sandy
Doesn't anyone watch "House"? ; ) ... but no, he's not taking blood pressure meds ....
Seriously ... I never had any trouble getting pills if I was running out, going on vacation, etc. But you do have to talk to a real person, not the robot.
Lots of drugs can affect the liver badly, and regular testing is required. That seems to be my doctors' concern ... that I don't go too long between the tests. They also want to be aware of everything you take so you don't have bad interactions ... if you go to one doctor for something and another for something else, that could easily happen if one of them wasn't paying attention to everything you take. OR ... if they've never read the papers that come with the drugs or told you about interactions with OTC meds (guess what! doctors ... except for House ... don't know everything!) ... I'd never have known thyroid medicine should not be taken within 4 hours of calcium if I hadn't read that sheet.
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