Things that make you say....

[jezzilee]

Hmmmm.

I just got a phone call from the pharmacy where I picked up some meds the other night after a trip to urgent care. They asked me to look at the pills I received and make sure they had a specific number on them. They wanted me to look at each and every one. Their reason behind this, or so they said, was that they were sitting really close to another pill that looks exactly the same with a different number. I wonder if I took something that did not have the right number in the past two days....She ended the call with, "Okay, now I can sleep tonight."

Anything like that ever happen to any of you?

Freakin' Walgreens.

 

[Tryharder62]

Wow! Nothing has happened to me like that but it surprises me it doesn't happen more often. Especially with the generic medications that are usually all white and look alike. Did you tell that lady at Walgreens that while she was sleeping better you would not be sleeping so well?

 

[Conager]

Sounds pretty scary. Couldn't they have just counted the pills? They have to know how many should be left of each kind. I wonder if they suspect a theft. An employee substituting the wrong pills for valuable ones. Might be my criminal mind at work though.

 

[jezzilee]

Wow! Nothing has happened to me like that but it surprises me it doesn't happen more often. Especially with the generic medications that are usually all white and look alike. Did you tell that lady at Walgreens that while she was sleeping better you would not be sleeping so well?

Exactly what I was thinking. It makes you feel very vulnerable. I never used to check my scripts with an online pill checker before, but I am going to start now!

Sounds pretty scary. Couldn't they have just counted the pills? They have to know how many should be left of each kind. I wonder if they suspect a theft. An employee substituting the wrong pills for valuable ones. Might be my criminal mind at work though.

I think there were some missing of something and that is why they think I got them. I just wonder what the other pills were....

 

[glynndah]

Exactly what I was thinking. It makes you feel very vulnerable. I never used to check my scripts with an online pill checker before, but I am going to start now!



I think there were some missing of something and that is why they think I got them. I just wonder what the other pills were....

Google the description and see.

 

[Noor]

I would check all your pills from them from now on. Make sure they are all the same number, shape and color. Then google the number to make sure it's your pill. Or look at the paperwork Walgreen's staples to the bag, it says what the pills should say and look like.

 

[jezzilee]

Google the description and see.

I will certainly do that and if I make the move to southern wisconsin permanent I will find a different pharmacy!

I would check all your pills from them from now on. Make sure they are all the same number, shape and color. Then google the number to make sure it's your pill. Or look at the paperwork Walgreen's staples to the bag, it says what the pills should say and look like.

I am going to... it's scary to think of what I may have taken. They did not tell me what the other pills looked like only that they were really close to what I was prescribed.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I was driving in the grocery store parking lot by the automatic door not long ago and some lady had collapsed and the door was opening and closing on her and I went Hmmmm.

 

[snugglestruggle]

I dumped Walgreens 3 years ago because they began to hire morons for pharmacy techs. If I have to check their work, what fucking good are they? Let me fill the G'dam script myself.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I am going to... it's scary to think of what I may have taken. They did not tell me what the other pills looked like only that they were really close to what I was prescribed.

If they called you within a day or two of filling your order and every pill you checked had the correct number and matched every other pill in the bottle, then it is highly unlikely you took any incorrect medication.

Individual scripts are filled from a large, wholesale container of pharmaceutical product in a single count out operation. It's not as if someone filled half your script, went to lunch and then came back and finished filling the order from a different container in stock.

If you had gotten the wrong medicine, you would have almost certainly gotten an entire bottle of the wrong medicine, and if by some bizarre fuck-up you had a handful of incorrect meds within the same script you took home, it defies normal odds of chance that you would have taken ONLY the incorrect pills virtually at random for the first few days and thus leaving ONLY the correctly prescribed pills at the moment the pharmacy called and had you check the remainder of the order.

Thus, there was absolutely nothing "scary about what you might have taken" out of the order you received given the pharmacy's conscientious follow-up and what you immediately confirmed by following their instructions.

The "scary" risk is simply the remote possibility of getting an entire order wrong or misprinting the dosage instructions on the label -- not unlike those tales of surgeons amputating the wrong limb. Shit happens.

 

[Noor]

If they called you within a day or two of filling your order and every pill you checked had the correct number and matched every other pill in the bottle, then it is highly unlikely you took any incorrect medication.

Individual scripts are filled from a large, wholesale container of pharmaceutical product in a single count out operation. It's not as if someone filled half your script, went to lunch and then came back and finished filling the order from a different container in stock.

If you had gotten the wrong medicine, you would have almost certainly gotten an entire bottle of the wrong medicine, and if by some bizarre fuck-up you had a handful of incorrect meds within the same script you took home, it defies normal odds of chance that you would have taken ONLY the incorrect pills virtually at random for the first few days and thus leaving ONLY the correctly prescribed pills at the moment the pharmacy called and had you check the remainder of the order.

Thus, there was absolutely nothing "scary about what you might have taken" out of the order you received given the pharmacy's conscientious follow-up and what you immediately confirmed by following their instructions.

The "scary" risk is simply the remote possibility of getting an entire order wrong or misprinting the dosage instructions on the label -- not unlike those tales of surgeons amputating the wrong limb. Shit happens.

Unless it wasn't the pharmacy that messed up...

 

[jezzilee]

I was driving in the grocery store parking lot by the automatic door not long ago and some lady had collapsed and the door was opening and closing on her and I went Hmmmm.

Okay this is just wrong, but it made me lol.

I dumped Walgreens 3 years ago because they began to hire morons for pharmacy techs. If I have to check their work, what fucking good are they? Let me fill the G'dam script myself.

I use the Medicine shop up north and am on a first name basis with my pharmacist, he is awesome. He takes the time to make sure your regular meds are not going to react with anything that you have temporarily prescribed and is not afraid to call the Dr. to let them know if you should not take something for this reason. I am happy to say I no longer have any regular meds aside from vitamins so interactions are no longer a problem.

If they called you within a day or two of filling your order and every pill you checked had the correct number and matched every other pill in the bottle, then it is highly unlikely you took any incorrect medication.

Individual scripts are filled from a large, wholesale container of pharmaceutical product in a single count out operation. It's not as if someone filled half your script, went to lunch and then came back and finished filling the order from a different container in stock.

If you had gotten the wrong medicine, you would have almost certainly gotten an entire bottle of the wrong medicine, and if by some bizarre fuck-up you had a handful of incorrect meds within the same script you took home, it defies normal odds of chance that you would have taken ONLY the incorrect pills virtually at random for the first few days and thus leaving ONLY the correctly prescribed pills at the moment the pharmacy called and had you check the remainder of the order.

Thus, there was absolutely nothing "scary about what you might have taken" out of the order you received given the pharmacy's conscientious follow-up and what you immediately confirmed by following their instructions.

The "scary" risk is simply the remote possibility of getting an entire order wrong or misprinting the dosage instructions on the label -- not unlike those tales of surgeons amputating the wrong limb. Shit happens.

I agree it would have been a long shot that I had taken the pills they are referring to, but the woman seemed so anxious and made me check each pill that I was actually a little worried, only a little though as if I took them, I didn't have any adverse affects and I am still alive so no harm no foul right?

Unless it wasn't the pharmacy that messed up...

I saw the script, it was a hand delver hard copy only so it was correct. I hope they figured out what was wrong and no one else got the wrong meds either.

 

[dolf]

here medication is almost always shipped in blister packs. and each blister strip bears the name and dosage of the medication. I still always double check though.

 

[jezzilee]

here medication is almost always shipped in blister packs. and each blister strip bears the name and dosage of the medication. I still always double check though.

I wish they would do that here, I have had some meds in those but a majority are not.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Two days ago the pharmacy filled my wife's prescription with the wrong med. The pills were different so she handed the bottle back to the pharmacist.

 

[Queersetti]

Hmmmm.

I just got a phone call from the pharmacy where I picked up some meds the other night after a trip to urgent care. They asked me to look at the pills I received and make sure they had a specific number on them. They wanted me to look at each and every one. Their reason behind this, or so they said, was that they were sitting really close to another pill that looks exactly the same with a different number. I wonder if I took something that did not have the right number in the past two days....She ended the call with, "Okay, now I can sleep tonight."

Anything like that ever happen to any of you?

Freakin' Walgreens.

That did happen to me! And I woke up in an alley in Providence, painted blue, and with the left half of my head shaved.

 

[Queersetti]

Two days ago the pharmacy filled my wife's prescription with the wrong med. The pills were different so she handed the bottle back to the pharmacist.

Good for her. Living with you, she needs to maintain her high levels of meds.

 

[MNGuy]

I dumped Walgreens 3 years ago because they began to hire morons for pharmacy techs. If I have to check their work, what fucking good are they? Let me fill the G'dam script myself.

I dumped them too. The reason they hire morons is because their tech don't get paid as well as other pharmacies. A local hospital likes to steal the good techs from Walgreens, using them as a training ground for their future techs. Every year or so they recruit from the local Walgreens.

Plus, I was talking to a former Walgreens pharmacist, and they say they have cut hours so much that they fill two to three times the recommended number of prescriptions than the pharmacy board recommends. They say they can do that because of their computer system and certified techs. She said the stress is almost unbearable, which is why she quit, and is surprised no one has had a serious medical problem with a misfilled presription.

Oh, and if a prescription is filled wrong, the pharmacist who checked it gets a slap on the wrist, the tech gets fired.

 

[jezzilee]

Two days ago the pharmacy filled my wife's prescription with the wrong med. The pills were different so she handed the bottle back to the pharmacist.

Up north Iused to use wal mart, first it takes forever to get a prescription, second they filled the wrong one once so I gave it back to them. When I went to get it filled they said i couldn't because I had gotten it the week prior. I had to fight with them on that one, and eventually I won. Changed to the Medicine shop, locally owned and I love it.

That did happen to me! And I woke up in an alley in Providence, painted blue, and with the left half of my head shaved.

Dang, too bad they didn't give me what you had!

I dumped them too. The reason they hire morons is because their tech don't get paid as well as other pharmacies. A local hospital likes to steal the good techs from Walgreens, using them as a training ground for their future techs. Every year or so they recruit from the local Walgreens.

Plus, I was talking to a former Walgreens pharmacist, and they say they have cut hours so much that they fill two to three times the recommended number of prescriptions than the pharmacy board recommends. They say they can do that because of their computer system and certified techs. She said the stress is almost unbearable, which is why she quit, and is surprised no one has had a serious medical problem with a misfilled presription.

Oh, and if a prescription is filled wrong, the pharmacist who checked it gets a slap on the wrist, the tech gets fired.

That's just not right!

 

[magicalmoments]

Report them to the authorities. Their control systems are obviously ratshit. They shouldn't be in business.

 

[foxinsox]

That did happen to me! And I woke up in an alley in Providence, painted blue, and with the left half of my head shaved.

Like that's a bad thing.

 

[jezzilee]

Report them to the authorities. Their control systems are obviously ratshit. They shouldn't be in business.

I guess I feel like they are human so allowed to err once in a while and since I cannot prove they actually effed up, and i did check what I received on drugs dot com and it is correct.