Greetings.
I recently switched to using Target pharmacy. I get 30 0.5mg Clonazepam tablets for a thirty day's supply. (This was, at least, how these meds were proscribed to me orignally.)
I enrolled in the auto-refill system. I learned afterwards that this meant prescriptions would be filled 6 days early.
Doing some basic math, this tells me that I will end up running out of refills about a month earlier than I would expect. At this point, the auto-refill system will send a request for a new set of refills to my doctor's office.
I asked my pharmacist if this would cause problems; if the doctor or nurse in charge of refills that day would say, "Gee, this patient is refilling the prescription one month early. That's not right!" My pharmacist told me that auto-refills are a regular thing and that I would not be labelled as a drug-seeker or get into any sort of trouble.
This, to me, seems nearly unbelievable, but the plot thickens:
I had a prescription filled 2/25/14. I got a new prescription on 3/12/14. This means I got a new prescription after only 15 days! What the hell is going on here?
My prescription bottle is labelled:
TAKE HALF TO 1 TABLET BY MOUTH AT BEDTIME AS NEEDED FOR SLEEP & HALF TO 1 DAILY AS NEEDED FOR ANXIETY
My old doctor's visit summary says take 1/2-1 0.5mg tablet daily.
What I'm thinking might be happening here is that the pharmacists are understanding the instructions as 2/day, giving me a 15 day supply, when my doctor intends 1 a day, for a 30 day supply.
Does anybody have any insight at all to what might be going on here? Am I going to be left up shit creek without a paddle if I take the meds as the pharmacy is giving them to me?
At CVS, this was more clear to me, as it would say DAYS SUPPLY: on the bottle.
I recently switched to using Target pharmacy. I get 30 0.5mg Clonazepam tablets for a thirty day's supply. (This was, at least, how these meds were proscribed to me orignally.)
I enrolled in the auto-refill system. I learned afterwards that this meant prescriptions would be filled 6 days early.
Doing some basic math, this tells me that I will end up running out of refills about a month earlier than I would expect. At this point, the auto-refill system will send a request for a new set of refills to my doctor's office.
I asked my pharmacist if this would cause problems; if the doctor or nurse in charge of refills that day would say, "Gee, this patient is refilling the prescription one month early. That's not right!" My pharmacist told me that auto-refills are a regular thing and that I would not be labelled as a drug-seeker or get into any sort of trouble.
This, to me, seems nearly unbelievable, but the plot thickens:
I had a prescription filled 2/25/14. I got a new prescription on 3/12/14. This means I got a new prescription after only 15 days! What the hell is going on here?
My prescription bottle is labelled:
TAKE HALF TO 1 TABLET BY MOUTH AT BEDTIME AS NEEDED FOR SLEEP & HALF TO 1 DAILY AS NEEDED FOR ANXIETY
My old doctor's visit summary says take 1/2-1 0.5mg tablet daily.
What I'm thinking might be happening here is that the pharmacists are understanding the instructions as 2/day, giving me a 15 day supply, when my doctor intends 1 a day, for a 30 day supply.
Does anybody have any insight at all to what might be going on here? Am I going to be left up shit creek without a paddle if I take the meds as the pharmacy is giving them to me?
At CVS, this was more clear to me, as it would say DAYS SUPPLY: on the bottle.
