Posted by octopusprime on October 2, 2004, at 10:00:47
about a month ago i went to the pharmacy to fill my prescription. i take 20 mg gen celexa (citalopram) once a day, and 25 mg seroquel twice a day. my doc had prescribed me 3 months worth (90 and 180 pills respectively)
to my surprise, the pharmacy gives me all three months worth of pills at once. these are huge bottles.
a month later, i notice i have only 30-odd count left of the seroquel, and 60-odd of the citalopram. the pharmacy shorted me 90 pills! this is $50 worth of medication.
so i trek back to the pharmacy and i'm worried that a month later they won't believe me when i tell them that i just counted the pills and they shorted me. fortunately, they did not question me at all (i brought both pill bottles to show i had been taking them as prescribed). they looked thru their history, and somebody had accidentally printed a label for 90 seroquel, reversed it, printed a label for 180 seroquel, and shorted me the pills. they gave me the full 90 pills a month after the prescription was filled. and they were very sorry but "mistakes happen"
so the moral of this story is COUNT YOUR PILLS
and i will not be getting my prescription filled at that pharmacy any more.
poster:octopusprime
thread:398232
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