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submitted 9 months ago by abc@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

vyvanse prescription has been delayed for 3 weeks now. i am a patient, yet severely ADHD soul, so I figure "oh it's probably just delayed because they're out of stock" and go about my business since I had about a week left (thanks to me completely forgetting to take it like 30% of the time).

wake up this morning and realize I am taking the last one I have. Not good, I think, because next week is especially busy at work. So I take an early lunch break at 9:30 and drive out to Walgreens to see if maybe, somehow, I've just completely missed the "your prescription's ready" call and texts.

Pharmacist asks me what I'm looking for. "My vyvanse prescription, it was placed on the 24th. My name is ABC and DOB is..."

Tappity-tap-tap on their computer. They glance up and narrow their eyes at me like I'm asking them to hack into the NSA's secure amphetamine database. Tappity-tap-tap.

"You're picking up a vyvanse prescription?? For whom??"

Uh, myself...? Here's my license.

"Hm..I'm not finding it, let me ask the head pharmacist to take a look."

30 minutes go by. The Head Pharmacist finally comes out and asks for my license for the second time. "The other pharmacist literally copied it down on the clipboard before they went to find you." I say as I fish it out of my wallet. They blink and look at the clipboard.

"Oh..huh. You're right they did."

Now I'm somewhat irritated as I hand them my license again. He looks at it, realizes it is exactly the same as what the sheet says, and hands it back to me.

"So umm.....it looks like the generic lisdexamfetamine is backordered which is why we haven't filled it yet."

This wouldn't be a shock except for the fact that I don't get the fucking generic. So immediately my response is "Well, my insurance covers the brandname 100% and I don't even get the generic so...are you saying the brand-name is also backordered and you cannot fill it??"

shocked-pikachu "No, we can fill it if you want the brand name medication!!"

"So why did y'all not fill it for 3 weeks if literally every other time I've filled this prescription through you, I've received the brand name medication??"

"...Because the generic is back-ordered sir..."

?????????? What the fuck are you talking about. It sounds like you just tossed my prescription into the "backordered" pile whenever it came in and didn't realize it wasn't actually a backordered medication until I came in. Thank you for wasting my entire hour lunch-break!!

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

They do tend to be overly dense, like they're doing it on purpose, always chalked it down to corporate training

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Maybe its all the fluorescent lighting.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 9 months ago

Last week I needed a script for a minor and now fixed issue. Call the pharmacist. It's in. Drive down.

Can I have it?

Sorry, we don't have it.

You said that you had it, yesterday.

The pharmacist telephone wasn't working yesterday, so you couldn't possibly have spoken to us.

I remember calling and I wouldn't have come unless you said it was in. Can you please double check.

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Okay, I've looked and we don't have it. And you couldn't have spoken to us because the phone wasn't working.

Okay, but I definitely called and the log on my phone says that I called you and connected. But that's it? You can't help?

You'll have to try again tomorrow.

Drive home. Make a coffee. Ring ring.

Hello it's the pharmacy, we found your prescription.

Are you taking the piss?

Okay I didn't say that last part. And all names have been changed to protect the identity of those involved. But jfc the incompetence and the rudeness.

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