mary124
09-14-2007, 03:56 AM
The other night I went to drop off my sisters medication at the pharmacy for her including her pain meds. It was a big hassle. First she had to call around as the pharmacy that she was using was special ordering hers (she was taking vicodin 10/325 (white tablets) but they told her at the last minute that they can't do this anymore. (lucky for her she had some left over) she called some other pharmacies and they all told her no they didn't have them and that they couldn't special order them. So she called the one that I use (Walmart) they told her that they had them in stock so I go there; I spend over 1 hour there getting her prescriptions filled- couldn't get her pain meds filled because all of a sudden they tell me that there is no such med as vicodin 10/325 (there is Lortab 10/325 in Yellow- she can't take the yellow because they dye in them makes her jumpy.) I asked them can they special order them for her and she kept telling me that there is no such medication! She agrees to call the doctor in the morning to change it to 10/500 - again something happens; now its 2 days later and my sister calls the pharmacy talks to them and now they are laying the blame on ME! saying that I said she wanted the brand name; well like all insurance including Medicaid it won't pay for it especially if theres a generic(?) available. I told my sister that I didn't tell them that, that I had the same conversion that she had, but who knows anymore. Now they have to get ahold of the doctor again and he is very hard to get ahold of. But my sister said no that I didn't say she needed or wanted the brand name but the pharmarist(?) said yes she said it anyway, I'm about to call them and give her a piece of my mind but if I do that I'm afraid that I won't have any left afterwards!! I told my sister that in all the years that I have been dealing with Walmart that i have never had a problem with them; and I have been going to them for almost 20 years.