Had to switch pharmacies......from Rite Aid to CVS

Ted01 said:
Hi @hollydolly!
So, I looked and googled and looked some more and asked my doctor's PA about obtaining strengths greater than 1% and she said that it would have to need to have a prescription and then be "compounded" at a pharmacy that does that kinda' thing. Otherwise obtain it illegally from Canada or wherever. So she suggested that I ask my PCP and hope, lol.
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well, goodness me.. just shows how daft some laws and rules are, doesn't it... when we can buy the double strength OTC.. and you have to beg for it... I'll happily send you some if you can't get it...
 

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officerripley said:
I'd be afraid to have prescriptions come by mail since if the prescription has to sit in our old hot mailbox for even a short amount of time, I worry about what it does to the medication. (With our weather, the mailbox gets too hot about 8 months out of the year.)
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I've thought some more about this and it might work okay if I ever moved to within walking distance of the Post Office or one of those mail "stores" that rent mailboxes (and if I could ever work my way up their long waiting lists for a box).
 
I can understand the pharmacy closures. Within a 15 minute drive, there are 3 Rite Aides and 3CVSs, and 5 grocery/Walmart store pharmacies. That's 11 pharmacies.
Thinking of Walmart's pharmacy, anybody use Sam's Club, Costco, BJ's?
 

fuzzybuddy said:
I can understand the pharmacy closures.
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I can't. There are a lot of towns that have only one pharmacy or none. And if those poor people don't drive, I don't know what they're supposed to do because mail order prescriptions aren't the answer for everyone; like in my case, I wouldn't want prescriptions sitting for any length of time out in my hot mailbox and there's a ton of mail theft around here; also as I mentioned above, the wait to get a post office box is years long (and people, like me, might not live anywhere near one anyway).

If the answer is, well people shouldn't live in places like that, maybe they already lived there before the pharmacies started closing and the mail theft became so popular; maybe they can't afford to move (or a spouse refuses to).

I think this is a big problem and I think it's going to cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications; heck, some are already struggling as it is to afford the meds, this may be the last straw for some people. (Sometimes I think that's the plan, to get rid of some of us.)
 
Gemma said:
With Rite-aid closed in my town, we now have no local pharmacy. I spoke with my GP last week, and she told me to just call her office, which I did yesterday, and they would print my prescriptions and I can pick them up today. The closet pharmacy (Walmart) is located 22 miles away. They don't deliver to my area either.

It makes me wonder what seniors in my community , that don't drive, are going to do. Most don't like mailing for meds.

The joy of living rural.
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When you drive to a pharmacy with your paper scripts, will they fill them while you wait.?
Of course all pharmacies years ago, used to, but now, many want them 1 or 2 days ahead of picking them up. 🙄😐🤨
 
officerripley said:
I've thought some more about this and it might work okay if I ever moved to within walking distance of the Post Office or one of those mail "stores" that rent mailboxes (and if I could ever work my way up their long waiting lists for a box).
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That's true however the boxes have become much more expensive than they ever used to be. 🙄😐
 
Kaila said:
When you drive to a pharmacy with your paper scripts, will they fill them while you wait.?
Of course all pharmacies years ago, used to, but now, many want them 1 or 2 days ahead of picking them up. 🙄😐🤨
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Yes, they will. At Walmart, I usually have to buy other things, so I go about my shopping then return to pharmacy to pick up scripts. Works well for both parties. :)
 
Kaila said:
That's true however the boxes have become much more expensive than they ever used to be. 🙄😐
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They sure have. But mail theft has become such a problem around here, they've become more and more popular. And when that town near us burnt almost all to the ground 7 years ago and a lot of those poor people moved here, the waiting lists got even longer. So I'm not optimistic about ever getting one.
 
officerripley said:
They sure have. But mail theft has become such a problem around here, they've become more and more popular. And when that town near us burnt almost all to the ground 7 years ago and a lot of those poor people moved here, the waiting lists got even longer. So I'm not optimistic about ever getting one.
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It's been long wait lists for them here for many years. Even though they're expensive,
and you need to keep up very quickly with the payments or will lose yours very quickly if you mistakenly are a tiny bit delayed.

It's very secure as you say but would add lots of monthly cost to the prescriptions.
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