[annielovesbacon]

So before getting medicine for depression/anxiety I have never ever had medicine prescribed to me, I've never used a pharmacy. But in February my university pdoc prescribed me medicine and sent the prescription down to the university pharmacy, where I've been getting it refilled.
But now I'm home for the summer and I'm about to run out of my anxiety medication. How can I get it refilled at a pharmacy here? I have nothing to show from my pdoc. Do I just bring the empty bottle and they refill it?
Sorry I'm kinda clueless here lol.

[Victoria'smom]

Do you have refills on the bottle.

[annielovesbacon]

Originally Posted by Miguel'smom

Do you have refills on the bottle.

It says "3 refills before 3/23/17"

[John Primo78]

Normally at least here in CT, the RPH would call the DR on your behalf passed on the information they get from the RX bottle............but in your case I am not sure what they would do, i would go into the pharmacy with and empty bottle and describe your situation.

You'll have to put in a transfer request to have your prescription transferred from your university's pharmacy to your new pharmacy, even if it's only temporary.

You legally cannot get a refill from this new pharmacy without transferring your prescription. If you didn't transfer your prescription, then you could technically get 3 refills from your university's pharmacy AND 3 refills from your new pharmacy, giving you a grand total of 6 refills.. This is because your new pharmacy and university pharmacy aren't capable of keeping track of where you get your refills.

Now, you don't need your doctor to put in a transfer request (and I kinda doubt they'd do it for you anyways, as it's not their job). your new pharmacy will ask your university's pharmacy to transfer the prescription over. They want your business, so they'll do all the dirty work for you; you just gotta ask. (I've done this before.)

Besides, legally speaking, your university's pharmacy will have to honor your transfer request anyways. They'll be violating HIPAA if they don't. So trust me, they will transfer it if you put in a request, and I believe they have to do it within a certain time frame, but I don't know what that time frame is. Also, I don't think the pharmacy can deny you without a valid, legal reason, so trust me when I say this: your new pharmacy will do it.

Hope that helps

[unaluna]

Your university needs to be in the same state as your home, otherwise your university doc probably wouldnt have a license in your home state, and prescriptions are only valid for the state they are written in - stg like that.

The home pharmacy will probably take care of getting the scrip transferred, as long as the above is satisfied. Then get it transferred back in the fall?

Schedule III, IV, and V are pretty much never rejected... mostly because they "don't have a high potential for abuse". It's schedule-II drugs that you have to watch out for... We're talking OxyContin/Percocet, Adderall, and codeine. Now those you may have issues with, but not always. Every pharmacy has a DEA license.

Virtually all anxiety meds (including Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, and Valium) fall under schedule IV, which means anxiety meds in general should be an easy transfer... unless you're somehow taking something like Percocet for your anxiety -- in which case, I would say your pdoc should have his license revoked because Percocet is not for anxiety.

Personally, if I couldn't transfer my Rx for any reason, then I would just have my GP talk to my pdoc. GP can write the Rx for the summer.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by unaluna

Your university needs to be in the same state as your home, otherwise your university doc probably wouldnt have a license in your home state, and prescriptions are only valid for the state they are written in - stg like that.

Last year I spent three weeks in VA when my dad was critically ill and I had a CVS pharmacy in VA contact my home pharmacy in WV to transfer my Rx. I didn't have any trouble filling them.

[annielovesbacon]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

You'll have to put in a transfer request to have your prescription transferred from your university's pharmacy to your new pharmacy, even if it's only temporary.

You legally cannot get a refill from this new pharmacy without transferring your prescription. If you didn't transfer your prescription, then you could technically get 3 refills from your university's pharmacy AND 3 refills from your new pharmacy, giving you a grand total of 6 refills.. This is because your new pharmacy and university pharmacy aren't capable of keeping track of where you get your refills.

Now, you don't need your doctor to put in a transfer request (and I kinda doubt they'd do it for you anyways, as it's not their job). your new pharmacy will ask your university's pharmacy to transfer the prescription over. They want your business, so they'll do all the dirty work for you; you just gotta ask. (I've done this before.)

Besides, legally speaking, your university's pharmacy will have to honor your transfer request anyways. They'll be violating HIPAA if they don't. So trust me, they will transfer it if you put in a request, and I believe they have to do it within a certain time frame, but I don't know what that time frame is. Also, I don't think the pharmacy can deny you without a valid, legal reason, so trust me when I say this: your new pharmacy will do it.

Hope that helps

Okay so, my pdoc won't be involved? I just talk to the new pharmacy and they will call my old pharmacy? I no longer see this pdoc because he sucks for various reasons and I'd rather not have to talk to him lol.

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Last year I spent three weeks in VA when my dad was critically ill and I had a CVS pharmacy in VA contact my home pharmacy in WV to transfer my Rx. I didn't have any trouble filling them.

I wonder if thats cuz we're old now, and that was an emergency. When i moved from mi to ny in the late 80's, they gave me three kinds of shyte about it.