has a pharmacy ever shorted your childs m | ADHD Information

Uh, a couple of cups of coffee in the morning perhaps? Yikes!

You could talk to his doctor about trying a different strength or a new med. They will fill a different perscription early. I've had a higher dose of Vyvanse filled after two weeks of the first one not working well. Insurance paid for both of them as well.

 

you can call your regualr pharmacist  they will sometimes "front you" the required pills, the same thing happend too me once as well except it was the doctor who had written it wrong, and I called my pharmacy and they loaned me a 14 day supply and just billed my insurance when it was eligableHappened to me once by accident (we know the pharmacist and know he wouldn't do it on purpose).  But with the growing black market in ADHD stims, it wouldn't surprise me if someone was skimming off the top every now and then....

Audrey

The prescription is for 30 days, and you got shorted 7 days, right? I'm saying that you can refrain from medicating him on the weekends, and as a result have enough medication for the school days.i guess i didn't clarify, we got the script right before xmas and i was busy and didn't notice until the other day when i saw he was getting low, then i looked at the fill date. so it would only give 2 extra pills and he'd still be short on school days. he was supposed to have enough until the 20th.Then skip meds on weekend days for this month, give a review of the pharmacy online, and don't go there anymore.

Also you can get a new rx one week to a few days early. Call the pharmacies and find out who does that. With this med, there's no refill; you've got the rx in hand so you can go where ever you want.Jessica N40550.9008564815because he is 7 days short though, he would still be a school week with no meds. i will never go to that pharmacy again. and you bet your life i will always stand there and count every pill.I have always gotten my son's meds at the same pharmacy, however last month we had gotten them filled at a different pharmacy. well today when getting my son his medicine i noticed he is getting very low. so when checking the date filled with how many he has left, he is 7 days short. i phoned the pharmacy and they were snotty about saying their count was correct. he can't go a week without his meds. he's severly adhd.You usually can get a prescription refilled before you actually have no pills left.  Call your insurance company and find out when you're eligible to refill it.  I think they give you about a 7-day window, so you should be okay.before i was told they would fill only 1 day early, josh had to go to the childerns hospital 3 hrs away so i needed to pick up his meds then before we left and walgreens said they could do 1 day early.Wow, that is really bad. It makes me want to count them once I get home from now on. It is getting that bad out there. Such a shame to steal meds from a child. I would call the doctor.  Sometimes they have free introductory packages they can give out to patients for a trial basis.  Or maybe he can write you a prescription for only 7 days.   Thank you so much for bringing this up, as I will definitely start counting pills when I fill a prescription in the future.
I guess it's a lesson learned, count as soon as you can. especially when it's a prescription that needs your id for. Remembering back, the pharmacy assistant had left for break, and the guy was byhimself. Pharmacists can be crooked too. I called dea and they told me to always count.

I have been shorted on my medication by the pharmacy. I am not saying it was intentional, I have gone to the same pharmacy for years, but it has happened more than once.

A months supply is over 200 capsules, so it is a big pain to count them, but if they are dispensed in a different container than usual or if it looks short, I will count them. Most of the time the count is correct, but a few times they have been off by quite a few.