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??”
“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!!
If you want pharmacy techs to do a better job, they need to be paid more
This is true of every profession, except some of them also ruin people’s fucking lives and it isn’t an excuse.
“Cops need to be paid more if you don’t want them shooting innocent people.” ass take.
Cops are paid to be class traitors, and no increases in salary or training will change that. Pharmacy techs are not.
Corporations take advantage of pharmacy techs putting their desire to not ruin peoples’ lives above the fact that they’re not being paid enough to care, that is not a struggle that they share with pigs.
Techs have a real high turnover cause the pay is bad, hours are bad, and dealing with people who might be having one of the worst days of their life is hard
Pharmacist are real understaffed, cause it pays bad for how much education you need, so they usually work the full days by themselves
There’s also the general fact that, well, for a science job you’re usually doing precious little science (or even pharmacology, since you have no say in dosage and often none in delivery) and are a glorified cashier if you don’t have your own practice. Ideally Pharmacists would work closely with doctors to make sure a patient gets individualised versions of the right drug in the right form as quickly and easily a possible.
Thatd be a big improvement, especially since a lot of people have delays because primary providers don’t need to know drugs well