Pharmacy ever messed up your prescription?

[nickbits]

Got one of mine filled yesterday and they gave me 60 pills instead of 90. I thought prescriptions are checked over by multiple people (tech&pharmacist?) so that type of stuff doesn't happen. Apparently it does anyway. At least they didn't give me the wrong pills although I wouldn't have minded some oxy by mistake LOL

Has a pharmacy ever messed up your prescription?

 

[shortylickens]

No but they have been known to take a really long time even with no other customers and 6 people back there.


Also my doc messed up. He only prescribed me 30 pills but told me to come back in 45 days. Problem is I dont think I'm supposed to stop for 2 weeks. Gotta call tomorrow and see if he'll give me a small in-between prescription or if he wants me to see him early.

 

[nickbits]

Also my doc messed up. He only prescribed me 30 pills but told me to come back in 45 days. Problem is I dont think I'm supposed to stop for 2 weeks. Gotta call tomorrow and see if he'll give me a small in-between prescription or if he wants me to see him early.

Ha, I had that happen too. The ER doc only gave me a 2 week prescription but my follow up with the neuro was over 2 weeks although only by a couple days.

 

[waggy]

Got one of mine filled yesterday and they gave me 60 pills instead of 90. I thought prescriptions are checked over by multiple people (tech&pharmacist?) so that type of stuff doesn't happen. Apparently it does anyway. At least they didn't give me the wrong pills although I wouldn't have minded some oxy by mistake LOL

Has a pharmacy ever messed up your prescription?

I have had that happen a few times. sometimes they don't have enough pills so they give you some and will send you the rest latter.

 

[MrSquished]

i had it happen so now i count them. got 33 instead of 60, which i thought was a weird number. i heard a customer at the same place say she didn't get enough of one prescription while she was there so it happens.

they told me they use pill counting machines.

now i also look up the pill online to make sure it's the right one in case it looks different than the last. since i get generics sometimes it changes as they get different generic makes.

 

[nickbits]

I have had that happen a few times. sometimes they don't have enough pills so they give you some and will send you the rest latter.

That wasn't the case this time--they just screwed up. They went back and recalculated their inventory and found I was missing them.

I have had what you said happen once too but they told me they were short and the package indicated the missing pills, so I don't consider that messing up the script.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Got one of mine filled yesterday and they gave me 60 pills instead of 90. I thought prescriptions are checked over by multiple people (tech&pharmacist?) so that type of stuff doesn't happen. Apparently it does anyway. At least they didn't give me the wrong pills although I wouldn't have minded some oxy by mistake LOL

Has a pharmacy ever messed up your prescription?

so they gave you 60 pills....why post about it??

Go back to the pharmacy and they will correct it....case closed!

 

[stargazr]

Yes, Walgereens gave me something for seizures instead of arthritis medicine. To their credit, they both started with the letters 'Oxa'. :\

Luckily I noticed it right away.

 

[Rakehellion]

Once I had a prescription filled for Clindamycin and the pharmacist accidentally gave me herpes.

 

[nageov3t]

I think my doctor once added an extra -0 onto a prescription. it was weird walking out of the pharmacy with a quart of codine.

 

[shortylickens]

I think my doctor once added an extra -0 onto a prescription. it was weird walking out of the pharmacy with a quart of codine.

HEY BUDDY!!

 

[Matthiasa]

Yeah counts are off even in some of the metered medications I have. It happens sometimes but rarely are they off by such a large percent.

 

[Leros]

I read a report about 8 years ago from the FDA that said something like 1 in 20 of prescriptions filled by pharmacies are incorrect in some capacity.

 

[Kadarin]

I check them.. but so far haven't seen a mistake.

 

[nickbits]

so they gave you 60 pills....why post about it??

Go back to the pharmacy and they will correct it....case closed!

I was wondering how common it was for a pharmacy to screw up. I already called them and got it sorted out. I thought it was very unlikely for them to screw up but I have learned from my thread that is not the case.

Now let me ask you something, why post in my thread when you are useless?

 

[TwiceOver]

Nope. But considering it takes 45 minutes to count 30 pills, it doesn't surprise me.

 

[SheHateMe]

Not the Pharmacy but my Doctor consistently fills out information on the script incorrectly and I end up being in a limbo between the Doctor's office and the Pharmacy while the Pharmacy verifies what the script is really for.

 

[Squisher]

Wife had it happen with her painkillers. Never got it sorted out. You might as well paint "dope fiend" on your forehead when you go to a pharmacy and tell them that they shorted you on your prescription.

Same goes for losing or destroying your pills. Your house could be 10 feet underwater in a flood or destroyed in a tornado and basically you're shit out of luck. Just deal with it.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Nope. But considering it takes 45 minutes to count 30 pills, it doesn't surprise me.

No one knows someone else's job better than someone who's never done it.


Btw I expect errors will be on the rise. Cost savings you know.

 

[nickbits]

Well I got my missing pills but this time they gave me the wrong ones completely (from my other rx). So now I have to back again. They are giving me a gift card though (not sure how much).

 

[DaTT]

I have often thought about this when I pick up my 120 percocets, but everytime I feel it would take too long to count them so I trust them...and as Squisher said, don't want to go in saying "hey buddy, I'm short 2 pills".

 

[JamesV]

Yea, I didn't even think to check, which is stupid because I'll look at any pizza I get from Pizza Hut to make sure it's right.

Got 1/2 of a prescription, out of many I oversee for my great aunt, which I didn't even realize til it got near empty. Good thing it wasn't the current flavor of the day for drug abusers, but I still had four hours on the phone of 'who are you' and 'what relation are you to the patient' til I got a new prescription.

 

[OverVolt]

Nope. But considering it takes 45 minutes to count 30 pills, it doesn't surprise me.

Takes 43 minutes to read it and 2 minutes to fill it :awe:

 

[BurnItDwn]

Never, but I've only had easy prescriptions, amoxicillin or penicillin or zithromax z pack for ear infection, or strep, or from dentist over the years, and then once an inhaler from when I had bronchitis....

 

[robphelan]

I'm in a love/hate relationship with my pharmacy. The wife takes low dose vidodin for migraines, and I take the same for my knees that need to be replaced.

the pharmacist took it upon herself to deny the Rxs.. saying too much meds were going into the 1 home.

Boy, our doctors were pissed when they heard about that.