I Have Caught Cvs And Other Pharmacies Lying About Not Having Oxycodone In Stock, Shortage 2012 (Page 4) (Top voted first)

Well today I officially caught a cvs here in Ga lying to me. A friend of mine filled his Meds yesterday. I go in, having a history with cvs, a recent one, and am immediately lied to. The pharmacist comes over and tells me they haven't had them in stock for months, without looking at his book or computer. At this point I stated an employee I know the name of told me shipment came in Thursday. He lied again. I then told him friend had filled yesterday morning. He said it was impossible. I then said I saw the bottle with my own eyes, it had their address on it, and even told him what brand they had since my friend just filled his there. Pharmacist lied to me yet again. I then asked him why he wad lying to me and that I am tired of being treated like a criminal because I am 30 with a handicapped tag and a four page long mri report for my neck, mid, and lower back. I just found out I have central and foramina stenosis in my lower back, yea!! He then asked me if I had been having trouble filling. I said yes, it seems a lot of pharmacies are lying about not having it in stock. I said it is easy to tell on how they look at you, treat you, and if they check their logbook which is required for all schedule two Meds. I then gave him a chance to not lie and said "so you mean you filled the last of your stock yesterday." Since he lied to me again I decided it was time to call his district manger. The info I told him was correct but he decided to lie so its not my fault if he gets fired. U am going to let his district manager know the whole story, and let them know that if something is not done I will contact the news about discrimination against a legit pain patient for them not to get their Meds and have a normal life. They won't want bad press that is for sure, esp since I have a handicapped tag. I am in their system for filling the exact Meds I brought in, they have my discount card on file also, and my whole family uses their pharmacy so these ate the thongs I will tell district. Any other pharmacies who lie I will do the same thing to. So it seems the shortage going on here in Georgia and Florida are manipulated by the pharmacies and the distributors. Mckesson isn't shipping them out to rite aid, wal mart, sams, and Target. They are afraid of getting fined like a few years ago or getting in trouble like cardinal, cvs, walgreens, publix, and krogers distributor. Cardinal is still shipping from Mississippi and north Carolina, but not from Florida atm. The rest of the country is not having any problems, just Florida and Georgia. Since I have a lawsuit going against Allstate from my car accident(not my fault) and we are going after a doc who read someone else's mri to make his conclusion and type a bogus report to my insurance so they will not reimburse me anymore, we ate going after him for slander or defimation of character since he wrote I sell my Meds, maybe I can add cvs for pain and suffering and descrimination. This is absolutely rediculous these days. Sorry for the rant but people selling them ate making a killing these days and legit patients are going broke from price gouging or gas prices just so we can live a somewhat normal life. Makes no sense how out system works.

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SORRY DONE PLAYIN IT, I UNFORTUNATELY THOUGHT YOU WERE CHRIS & I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION MY ACCIDENT PIP CLAIM PAID FOR 10 SURGERIES AND iSHELLED OUT 75,000 FROM MY ACCIDENT MONEY TO PAY FOR THE REST. I ONLY RECEIVED 250,000 TO BE DISABLED AT 27, I WOULD HAVE RATHER HAD MY LIFE BACK AND NO ACCIDENT BUT, LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT.

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You are so uninformed and or opinionated you will just lie to fit your own made up fantasies.

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@ dr west coast: a pharmacist is as qualified or more so to diagnose than an MD?? Pharmacists are NOT at all qualified or properl trained to diagnose. I'm a third year medical student with two pharmacists in my class. Both have struggled and failed a couple of classes because they felt they had not been properly educated at their respective pharmacy schools, and they sure couldnt diagnose when they got here. To say a pharmacist is qualified to overstep boundaries and deny a doctor's orders is just plain ridiculous. I have to question whether you are actually an md because of that statement...

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Contemplating suicide bc you can't get "oxycodone"? Take a look ppl. And you wonder why the DEA is slowly withdrawing this drug from the market? This drug is dangerous in so many ways. It's so sad when a person feels there is no other recourse but suicide when they cannot get their oxycodone script. This is exactly only ONE of the negative reasons why the DEA is slowly withdrawing oxycodone from the market. The point I have been trying to make has been made by this post. There are "other" meds to treat your pain. Don't get to this point just bc of a drug. I find this to be very sad, indeed.

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Right here is a clear and cut example of how people decide that they are mind readers and that a person complaining of pain MUST be lying and not in the pain they claim. It is SICK and SAD that people have to become the judge of others like this. Where is the compassion and caring? We are to take a person's word for it when they say they are on pain. That is being a human and treating some one with dignity and respect not trying to prove they are wrong. I am so upset that people in pain are having such a hard time all over the country getting relief from their pain simply because some people are skeptical or cynical and think they know what another feels.

@LadyRhinestone You can not base everyone's pain on your Mother's experience...we are all individuals and we are all different...your Mothers pain threshold might have been way higher then the other person's. What is your point even? That just because your mother's blood disorder did not cause her pain that no one's can cause them pain? This is a place for people to show compassion and support for those in chronic pain not a place to come and call a person a liar and try and prove they are not hurting.

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Dr. Whocares, if you are a doctor then certainly you can read. I assume they teach that at some point in your profession. I do not lie, unlike many of the doctors & pharmacist I have had the displeasure of coming into contact with over the past thirteen years of being a chronic pain care patient. Once again you have showed your ignorance. It simply amazes me that someone like yourself who claims to be a doctor has the time to troll on sites like this. If you are a doctor, why don't you offer some useful information instead of looking for some drama to create. I'm sure we all have enough drama in our lives.

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@ Dan S: rest assured, this person is not a doctor. If by some miracle they are, they have no business in medicine. Accusing someone you've never so much as seen a picture of of being a pill popper is ludicrous and no competent dr would do so based on things you've said.

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to everyone who may or may not agree. I have been suffering for 4 yrs now with no pain med help. I was jus thinking this is part of my job and to deal with it. (travel agent for mil/gov 15 yrs). I am married and have 2 girls 4 and 9. I finally went to my dr. who in return sent me to a Rheum. Horrible. Had Ultram, he kept upping it and I was so sick. He gave me gel, I tried it, kinda worked until my little girl grabbed my hand and then put her hand in her mouth it went numb. Well, that was the end of that. I live with, cronic body pain, tender points, aches, pains, im exhausted every sindgle day at 2pm ish. I was fired from my job Mar 1 2013. I did find another job and start AUG/SEP. I am currently seeing a PM doctor. 10mg ocycontin ad 7.5 oxycodone breakthrough among other things. One Dr. agrees FM and the other thinks its a joke. I now have Neur apt and another Rheum appt. And DAMN IT no one should ever HAVE to live in pain. Regardless of the eyes you may get when people some how know what you take. You take it to live a semi productive day. To be a mom, a daughter and a wife. With out that help. I would be no where. So, for all the people who just point fingers and say "PILL POPPER" stop and think for a minute what that person has or is still going through. Not fun. Believe me, if there was a shot I could get 1 x a month to stop all the pain, aches, anxiety, exhaustion, and nighttime sleeplessness I would be 1st in line.

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You are correct in part. Pharmacy's order and get limited amounts of Oxycodone and Oxycontin and do hold some for regular customers like myself who've been filling the same medications for years. How do you think it makes us feel when we try to fill it when they're out? The Pharmacist's know us personally and we know them by their first name after years of service. They've watched our physical struggles throughout the years and usually know everthing that going on with our health. In my case they know about the botched sinus surgery a dozen years ago that started everything, the IV antibiotics & heart catheter due to the hospital aqquired bacteria that I was infected with during the procedure and the IV IGG therapy because everything blew out my immune system. They've handled scripts to treat the long term undiagnosed lyme infection and a recent RMSF infection along with numerous medications to treat the damage caused by them. One lousy tick crawled under middle toe nail last year while wearing scandals going from house to car during a monthly Doctor visits was all it took to get Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Oral antibiotics haven't worked IV is the only choice but I can't drive to treatment daily and can't afford in home treatment deductibles. Jack, Paula and Kelly at my local Dawsonville Kroger know the entire family since I'm usually too unwell to pickup my precriptions and too worn out after a Doctor's appointment to wait around for 1/2 hour or more for them to fill it. They would bump me ahead of others to keep me from waiting but I would never ask them to. They almost always make a point to chat with me when I actually do make it into the store due to the rareness of it. My Pharmacist know that I'm going to bring the same prescriptions in on a monthly basis, unless something new comes out and that I'm depending on them to have the medication to fill it. I use the same Kroger to fill 95% of all my scripts throughout the year so it's understandable that they'd order and hold a certain amount every month to fill my prescriptions. It would be poor business practices if they didn't which would make me take myn business else where. The Rite Aid Pharmacist has tried to get my business since they opened but I love Jack too much to change. Jack should be retired and enjoying himself at his age with his health issues but he cares about his customers too much to retire! Jack fights like a demon to make sure that our prescriptions get filled and covered by insurance when he knows his customer personally. Paula and Kelly are trying to follow in his footsteps but his shoes are just too large to fill.
I do agree with you when it comes to CVS on numerous issues.

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U know what I hate about this forum? When I want to reply to someone's direct comment, it ends up out of order, and not directly linked to the persons comment you are replying to!!!! There is a place under each persons comment for you to either reply, report, share, or say if that persons message was helpful, or unhelpful........ But yet your response to that persons direct comment ends up in the order in which its posted, unless you responded to their comment right after they did!!! It's stupid, because then no one knows what the hell your talking about, because naturally it ends up underneath someone totally different's comment! Unless u use @ so and so....... In which case who ever else is reading this forum has to scroll up and down the forum to put sense to everyone's conversation!!!! This stuff has been coming to my email for well over a year now, due to my curiosity about how the rest of the world is dealing with these issues, so I googled it!!! Sometimes I ignore it in my email, sometimes I read it!!! Nothing had changed!!! People are supposed to be helping each other, and giving kindly advice but they are attacking each other, and judging each other!!!it doesn't matter what people are prescribed , they are still having a hard time at the pharmacys!!! My advice to the people who are still having a hard time....... Go to pharmacy, to pharmacy..... Asking for a one on one consultation with the pharmacist in charge! When u talk to the pharmacist ( only the pharmacist) ask if he or she will take a new pain management patient needing a reliable as possible pharmacist!! Be prepared to show 6 months documentation that says u have been a patient with your doctor, and 6 months history from a prior pharmacy!!! It IS NOT ABOUT THE PHARMACY itself people, it's about finding a pharmacist!!! Their are jerks, and nice ones in every pharmacy!!! You are not looking for a 100% awesome pharmacy, you are looking for a great pharmacist that believes in you, and is willing to try and help you!!! MY BEST ADVICE!!!:)

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That's the stupidest thing I've heard! The pain meds we(chronic pain patients) are given we are taking bcuz that particular one works for us...we don't just go to the doc and they prescribe OxyContin first try....I tried every other pain pill with side effects b4 I was offered or wanted to try OxyContin..and that is what works for me and I assume it works for the writer of this post as well...it's not so easy to just go and change your meds!

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be careful with Walgreens as well. They have this "Good faith refilling Policy" which is load of crap. They are profiling there customers. Its a f***ing travesty that chronic pain sufferes like myself cannot get the dammmm medication at one Pharmacy PERIOD....end of story. I got put on the "do not fill list" at Walgreens and the Pharmaf*** didnt even have to tell me the reason as to why. Well I looked up there good faith crap policy and one of the reasons I got put on the list was trying to fill the medication at multiple pharmacies? UMMM What? That is grounds to put someone o a list? Whats illegal about going to different pharmacies, which we are all experiencing, to get our life giving medications filled? only reason I have done that is because my pharmacy was out. Such a load of garbage that the dealers drug shoppers, and overprescribing Dr's have made it all but impossible to get our legal prescriptions from our Pain Specialists with all this harrassment and profiling. I wish something can be done for us. It's a f***ing nightmare.

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My goodness after reading all of y'all having so much trouble w/pharmacies and such I am absolutely grateful that my family owned drug store has never ever given me a bit of trouble f/the last 12 years. When all your prescriptions come from a highly reputable hospital there should never be an issue. It is the people that have not had a traumatic injury, disease, chronic ailment, etc. that is making it hard for people like us that will be on pain medication the rest of our lives. It sickens me to watch these programs when there isn't a thing wrong w/the person who starts taking this medication for recreation!!!

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Scared pharmacy tech, no one cares what you WOULD do if you were a pharmacist. Because you aren't one. Clearly you are not any sort of true medical professional, making judgements of intoxicity based upon posts on a website. Ridiculous. You have no expertise- you put pills in bottles. If you even do that. really, no one cares about your two cents. By the way, I don't take narcotics and am a REAL medical professional.

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I must add, scared pharmacy tech, that you yourself then "looks stoned", seeing as you can't even spell common words correctly. Look at yourself before judging others and maybe you will see the irony.

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What does "live loves to show" mean?

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Didn't courts recently rule pharmacist had to fill birth control prescriptions? Don't pharmacist in Oregon have to fill end of life prescriptions? So how are these "life sustaining" drugs.

Rights, are rights, anyone refused a refill should file a complaint with their state Board of Pharmacy.

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Gina, although I'm sure you mean well, assuming that everyone taking oxycodone is a hopeless addict that would be better off on subutex or suboxone is naive at best and downright presumptuous at worst. The fact is, if your pain is effectively controlled with Subutex you should not have been on a long term program of oxycodone in the first place. Your preoccupation and apparent abuse while it was being subscribed to you drives home this point home even further.

Buprenorphrine, the active ingredient in both Subutex and Suboxone is simply not a very effective pain reliever. While it may work well on your pain it's not going to make a person with moderate to, at times, severe RA very comfortable.

While it may impossible to take oxycodone for an extended period of time without developing a pretty strong dependence or addiction to them, it is certainly possible to take it without abusing.

Oxycodone is the most effective pain medicine I've ever been prescribed. Ask anyone that's been through the agony of RA. At the same time it's probably over prescribed and abused more than any other pain medicine. So I agree that you're much better off staying away from oxycodone as you probably didn't need it in the first place if you're getting sufficient relief from Subutex. There are a lot of us out here though that find it to be the only drug that provides sufficient relief and take it without experiencing any negative impact on our lives.

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Hey, Jaswars! You really told the pharmacists who just love controlling patients. Like most cops, they are control freaks. They get off by telling us whatever excuse they decide to make up for why they "can't" fill our scripts. Few are the pharmacists who trust the doctors who went to school for 8 years.

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The reasons behind the law are distributed on a need to know basis only and the message is "Bend over. We're the DEA. We can and will do whatever the hell we want!"

By the way, it's HIPAA that they're ignoring not the Hungry, Hungry variety. ;)

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