MY pharmacist is great! She knows me by name and knows my scripts off the top of her head. She will even call my phone if I forget to pick up my new scripts

She is very nice when I call her to ask questions, like what cold medicines am I allowed to take. Thats stuff Dr's don't usually know

HA!!! look at my reply back to you on my disscussion about the reaction to klonopin

its not just u! lol mine acted like a clueless blond :)

My Pharmacist is full of useful information, and is always ready to answer any questions I have about side effects or med interactions....sounds like you need to change Pharmacies ?

my pharmacists are good and if they dont know exact answer they will tell me to talk to the doctor.

my pharmacist had a practicum student I knew who leaked my personal prescription information out to his brother and god knows who else. When I confronted the head pharmacist he denied that that would ever happen. Yeah, right.

my pharmacist is very good and answers all my questions.

My pharmacist is great. They help me out all the time.

My pharmacists know me by name and whether I'm there to pick up pills or whether I'm dropping off a script before I even tell them. They're extremely helpful to me and are very polite and friendly.

There was an Osco Pharmacy that my mother used that was made up of nothing but scowling, rude, unhelpful pharmacists who seemed to resent your very presence. They were so horrible that you felt like surely you were being pranked for a reality show or something and you'd keep waiting for a bunch of people with TV cameras to jump out, yelling Surprise!!!! It's just a joke!!!!

But, no. These people were sadly all to real. And you knew it wasn't just you because almost every time you'd be in the store, other customers would be talking about how rude and snotty they were!!!!

I'm sorry if that's your only option. If it doesn't matter where you go, shop around for a more competent and amenable place!!!!

Good luck!!!! (((((Hugs)))))

I have a wonderful pharmacy I use and they stay on top of things-

I was at a Walgreens and a woman and her children were in the drive-thru and she had asked if her pain pill prescriptions were filled yet, There were a few people behind the counter and 1 replied to her No. When she left, the young woman that had said no ,started laughing and said" that is what happens went you get yourself addicted "to whatever type of pill. I was so PO I left. I could not believe that was a professional? really? There is also another well known pharmacists who constantly berates and always has something to say about prescriptions,total ass! Sorry I really don't like the guy. My Pdoc told me that he should have went to school longer if he wanted to prescibe meds. Its like he second guesses the doctor.

i love mine...find another til you have a great one to...

The caliber of people that work at Wal-Mart pharmacy is equal to high school kids working at McDonalds. I know the independent pharmacy's generally have the best customer service and are willing to work with you better than the chain pharmacys.

For example: My mom doesn't have pharmacy benefits on her insurance so she has to pay out of pocket for her medications. She had hip replacement surgery last week and they wanted her on this new blood thinner that was designed with joint replacement patients in mind. It was $300 at the hospital pharmacy. She called her pharmacy which is a local owned pharmacy and they didn't have it but told her they would get it the next day and only charge her $200 for two reasons 1) They understood she was paying completely OOP and 2) They appreciate and care about their customers and are loyal. She would have never gotten that at Walgreens or Wal-Mart.

I am 100% all about supporting independents especially after what they did for her last week. My husband uses Wal-Mart now because of his medical plan, but I am going to make the switch when we switch plans.

okay, I guess the bigger problem(and I don't knwo why I didn't have this thought before) is that I'm a little gun shy about going to my pdoc about these things. I have a great pdoc and his admin asst. is also great. granted. but I think I'm still working out stuff from the ..shall I say...not so nice ones in my recent xp who have said things to me like, "you shouldn't be bothering me every day with this," "never buy a PDR, you'll get med student syndrome"..one actually dropped me as a patient for calling too much...said I needed more care than he could provide.
solution?..I've got a tdoc appt. today...I'll work all this with her today and learn to do this for myself and not let my past intimidate me. I wonder then, how much of my irritation in life is actually fear?...