You forgot the pharmacist who thinks they know more than your doctor and has the gall to opine on your prescription.
Doctor: for condition A use med B in C manner.
Pharmacist: Oh no, what is he nuts? Never use med B for condition A as it contains flixadidlian cortemolezeum which will react badly to manner C. No you’ll need med D.
i mean occasionally the pharmacist is right.
the thing that annoys me is they don’t care that you have a chronic condition. it’s not going to change. i’m going to need this med for the rest of my life.
but they need my doctor to re-up the prescription every 6 months all the same
They do care if you have a chronic condition. If you do, they can charge you as much as they want.
I had this bullshit happen in Florida at a Walgreens…I had a doctor put a prescription for me…we had worked together for a good while and finally found a script that works for me. Walgreens tells me they dont carry it, except I’ve had it filled in the past at that location.
Then this way over stepping mother fucker starts trying to diagnose me and then had the audacity to say, “have your doctor call us and we can see if we can work something out.”
Bitch what the fuck do you think the PRESCRIPTION is, that IS the communication between the pharmacy and the doctor, last time I went to Walgreens
https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/
https://www.alldaychemist.com/Some old school sites that allow ordering of certain rx medicines without an rx. You can’t order scheduled substances like opioids, but they have a lot of common prescription medications.
fun fact its usually the pharmacy tech that deals with all the bullshit with insurance, the pharamcists rarely do it, they just determine the correct dosage, medicaiton.
Blaming pharmacists for things they have no control over, nice. Biggest brain
contrast this me picking up my dog’s prescription meds: “ah, shit, that was his last pill!” <calls vet office> “hey, could I get a refill of gabapentin and vetmedin? Let’s toss in some canned food. Sure, I can swing by after work. Thanks!”
From my point of view, the difference is there’s no insurance involved, so I pay out of pocket and no one has to deal with insurance companies. (pet insurance exists, but I’ve done the math and it doesn’t make financial or logistical sense for me.)
I do like my human pharmacy, but all my human meds are generic and not super controlled or abusable. I gave up on ADHD meds.
there’s no insurance involved
Oh, don’t worry they’re working on fixing that little “problem” won’t be long before veterinary care is as horrible as human health care is. Already have people around me signing up for that shit and raving about how it gives them peace of mind. Morons aren’t doing anything but feeding the enshittification.
i mean they’re probably at a banfield clinic paying through the nose already
I have found that going to literally any other pharmacy besides walgreens or cvs is a significant improvement in competence and convenience.
CVS and Walgreens pharmacies are staffed like dollar generals. They can’t handle the load but they won’t hire more pharmacists.
I had a small pharmacy I loved I had to give up on when I got a new job and they weren’t in network. I was not going to CVS or Walgreens.
So I went to the hospital pharmacy that is in network. Can’t imagine that’s any cheaper but whatever insurance.
I’ve had exactly one prescription done at CVS (because I could get my med for like 60% of the cost there) because they managed to be out of stock on my med on month two. Immediately switched back and haven’t had a problem
Another meme I cannot relate to because I have the privilege of not living in america
Americans just don’t get that brand name medications are exactly the same as generic ones either 😅
With prescriptions, it is not about what the customer wants, it is about what brands the insurance wants to cover (and getting a doctor that does not write a brand specific prescription). If an insurance company only covers a weird brand of a common (but expensive) medicine, the customer either has to hunt for a pharmacy that has it in stock, wait for their local pharmacy to order it (in either case delaying when the insurance company has to pay for it), or buy the in-stock brand without any insurance coverage. The insurance can still claim they cover the drug while paying less for it.
At one point, I was on a medicine that had a very high co-pay for the brand name and would not cover the generic. It was so high that it was cheaper for me to buy the generic uninsured instead of paying the co-pay.
Haha was thinking the same thing. Minor issues here for certain medication availabilities at times but nothing that would make this meme relatable to many people!
Yup. In the uk, you pay the same charge for each prescription you pick up, whatever it is (or you get an annual flat fee pass if you get more than one a month). So if the pharmacy only found an expensive version, that’s a them problem, not a me problem.
Yeah, my pharmacy texts me to confirm I want a refill, then I go pick it up. One extra confirmation text and wait a couple days if there are no more refills
I live in America take boat loads of meds cause I’m post transplant and don’t have these issues, I think OP needs a new pharmacy
Lemme guess… Adderall?
It’s far easier to buy crack online without getting caught than getting your legit Adderall script
And to make matters worse there’s some sketchy shit going on with reformulation to reduce euphoria 🙄 I’m so mad that I started taking medication because it changed my life and now I’m unstable due to this shit.
I didn’t know about the reformulation thing — is it Adderall that’s affected? I’m not personally on Adderall, but I like to be aware of the overall landscape of ADHD meds due to having many friends with ADHD (and also being a nerd)
RFK Jr.: You need meds? What’re you gay?
he just dips in methyelene blue, suntans till his skin is more burnt than a rotisserie chicken and hopped on roids at 70. fun fact the bear incident was just 11years prior.
PrFK Jr
I’m currently stuck in prior authorization hell and used the last dose of my med yesterday. Ugh. I hate this fucking country.
i currently unable to get topicals for my skin condition because i have a hard time scheduling appoints since i had to use new insurance around my work schedule, which one of “problem solvers” have denied me of changing it. oh yea certain drugs like controlled substances, your insurance people adds extra step to even get it.
Might be a long shot, but depending on the med, might want to ask your doctor’s office if they have sample supplies of the med to hold you over until they get the prior auth approved.
medications for mental illnesses are controlled so the insurance/hmo adds extra laborious steps to get it. pre-authorization or must have in-person doctors appts,etc. its not as fast i need this cream for skin/fungal asap. my insurance in the west requires pre-authorization, plus probably other requirements before refills. they are also more resistant Rx to more pricey drugs too.
Generally a good suggestion but having your mental health depend on a controlled substance is a fresh kind of hell. Anyone know how Spain’s health care system is for trans folks on testosterone? I can get citizenship in an EU country and a couple of people I know moved to Madrid last year and I think this situation has convinced me to move even if I’ve forgotten most of the Spanish I once knew.
I did pitch a fit and managed to get it filled today but I never want to deal with this shit again, it’s been life-alteringly awful previous times.
I had to set an annual reminder to call insurance to get that sorted out because the pharmacy doesn’t know why they rejected it and after a year my ADHD would forget that prior auth was a thing. So good of the insurance company to decide they need to interfere once a year with the medication I have been taking for over a decade!
You Americans…I just order my shit wherever I want and have it tomorrow for the best price.
Listen pal, we have the god guven RIGHT to buy our medicine at extremely inflated for no reason prices
Medication I need refilled monthly is 6-10k without insurance. Yayyyyy
That’s insane
Just one of my meds is $3500 w/o insurance. Another one, just over $1200. Lost my insurance, so let’s hope the ole asthma and COPD can deal until I get generics from India
Best of luck to you on that.
I’m very lucky, my insurance covers everything because I’m so poor.They cancelled my Medicaid. I have no physical assets or even a permanent address. Just sleep places. Couple $20k ER bills and the state is reconsidering. Might get reinstated, might not. Can’t take anything else from me. Worst they can do is let me die and I’d be fine with that
That’s some bs man
I’m sorry man, of course you can!
But in case you’d get it cheaper suddenly, without being asked, you could maybe just throw away the difference or donate it to an evil cause?
Wait, would those people also get affordable meds?
NO!
We have same day supply optimization dialed in…for guns!
For some things those might work more efficient than drugs though. That’s a plus, yes?
There are definitely use cases.
