When you go into the pharmacy, do you ever feel embarrassed or anxious?

Sometimes I'm embarrassed because of all the meds I take at such a young age. (I don't know why I'm embarrassed about this. Maybe it's because a nurse at my doctor's office had commented on it once.) Then I'm anxious because of the way people tend to react to BP. I've gotten some weird looks from the pharmacists before, and sometimes they say out loud which medications I'm on! (Not that people in general really know what the meds are for, but still!)

[hopeless2015]

For some reason I always have anxiety and dread going to the pharmacy and I'm there a lot

[Coconutzo]

I get sort of embarrassed by the frequency of my visits and the amount of medicines on my Walgreens list past and present. It's pretty embarrassing to try medicine after medicine after medicine. Somehow the same pharmacist is always there on the days where I need medicine "released" to me. He must be tired of lecturing me on new meds. Lol
Also ALWAYS embarrassed to pick up or drop off benzo scripts. I feel like I'm drug seeking or like they think of me as such. In the state I live, I have to get paper scripts for those instead of having the doctor just call them in which in my opinion makes it worse

[raspberrytorte]

I'm embarrassed going to the pharmacy, especially when I have to pick up haldol. With everything else I'm on, since I'm on three anticonvulsants, it just looks like I have a nasty seizure disorder. Haldol sort of gives it away.

So yes I'm anxious going to the pharmacy! I hate going to the pharmacy. I'm on so many meds that's embarrassing too.

[st0psign]

I HATE the pharmacy, such a pain in the ***, and they say mine out loud every now and then too.

[Unrigged64072835]

I don't mind the military pharmacy unless I have to take a number and wait. Then it gets frustrating. But it filled with mainly retirees who probably get worse stuff than I do so I'm not embarrassed by it.

[HopeForChange]

I get anxious myself, and I'm a pharmacist (though I don't fill in the same place as where I work). What frustrates me is when pharmacists talk to me like I'm three years old because I take an antipsychotic. Though, it starts to get funny when they talk to me condescendingly, yet aren't providing me with correct information, haha. I'm actually getting more and more bitter about the assumptions pharmacists make about patients with mental health problems...but that's another day's rant, haha.

[Gs550]

I don't mind. Because there's only 2 pharmacists. The people that actually ring me up are pharmacy techs and I'm pretty sure they have no idea what my meds are for.

Once, though, I was prescribed a new med that my insurance didn't cover and I couldn't afford to pay for it so I started crying. That was embarrassing. But otherwise, nah.

[Rjaye]

I go to a small pharmacy which is so much nicer than the big mega places. They know me and ask questions or let me know about possible drug interactions up front. I'm lucky.

[junkDNA]

i dont really feel embarrassed at the pharmacy. years ago, though, i went in to pick up my invega shot. the shot was free for me bc of my insurance but i was really confused and kept trying to swipe my debit card. the pharmacist asked me if im ok and i said yeh sorry. she asked me to call her when i got home. i guess i worried her? i didnt call tho, bc it felt weird. other than that no ones treated me differently.

going to a doctor however is embarrassing for me. they ask what meds im on, im on a lot. so theres a huge list, how do u spell that, what do u take this for. i just wanna be like yo F off i just need a new prescription for my glasses

[bioChE]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

When you go into the pharmacy, do you ever feel embarrassed or anxious?


Sometimes I'm embarrassed because of all the meds I take at such a young age. (I don't know why I'm embarrassed about this. Maybe it's because a nurse at my doctor's office had commented on it once.) Then I'm anxious because of the way people tend to react to BP. I've gotten some weird looks from the pharmacists before, and sometimes they say out loud which medications I'm on! (Not that people in general really know what the meds are for, but still!)

I used to feel strange going to the pharmacy often and/or picking up a large number of meds. Not anymore, though; maybe it's because I've been doing it for years, or maybe I just don't care anymore.

It helps to realize that the people there are just living their own lives, doing their job, and looking to get off work when they're done. I'm sure if they tried to psychoanalyze every person coming in and out it would make their head spin. It also helps to realize that most meds can be used to treat various conditions, and nobody is sitting there with your doctor's notes in front of them.

[OctobersBlackRose]

Only when I have issues with my insurance am I embarrassed, but the Walgreens I go to has been pretty good about working with me.through insurance issues. But for meds, no I'm not embarrassed, haven't been lectured on them either or even talked to about them (so I do all research on my owm).

[p00dlez]

Yeah its embarrassing especially when they come out with bags and bags of medications for me. I was on 10 different meds (I had to go count them just now, 2 are PRNs). Until one of them put my butt in the hospital over the weekend and now I am down to 9. They are for a variety of crap that's wrong with me.

They have said some of mine out loud before too and it really pisses me off. The next time they do that **** I think I am going to just start screaming about hippa laws and lawyers and see if that will shut them up.

Its bad enough when they put two bottles of pills into one bag so I have to walk out of there with multiple bags of pills with everyone looking at me like I am a freak or am on the verge of death or something. But to call out my psych meds where others can hear really pisses me off.

[scatterbrained04]

The frequency that I visit the pharmacy is embarrassing but not the actual visit itself. Except for the two times I accidently paid for my meds with my company credit card and had to make them reverse it. Now one of the staff always asks if I'm using the right card.

[whoamihere]

I used to hate going to the pharmacy because of all the bags, but I now use a pharmacy with a drive-thru so that helps. At least I don't see all the raised eyebrows in line behind me

No, not really. I just find it humorous that they know us by sight. With my husband's medical conditions, pharmacies are just a weekly visit for us.

[cincidak]

I don't get embarrassed
I take 16 meds. Many of them know me by name at my pharmacy. They are always nice, and helpful.

[JustJace2u]

I actually don't mind going to the pharmacy. To me, the staff where I generally go to pick up my meds are very friendly and knowledgeable. As for the issue of them talking loudly to the point of other people being able to hear them, I would mention it to them next time and ask if they could speak a little softer. Just my 2 cents

[HALLIEBETH87]

Yes I do get embarassed

[mindwrench]

I feel like everybody is looking when i pick up meds at the pharmacy. I only have one that is for me, but I pick up tons and tons and tons of meds for my mom. She is on a lot of serious stuff that I have to show my drivers license for and sign the forms. I always think they are going to send the dea after me for picking up so many controlled substances.

[~Christina]

Nope! Not all all.

[chailatte16]

I don't have any problems picking up my meds at the pharmacy. My family takes a lot of meds so we know the pharmacist well. My meds are not all on the same schedule, so I am picking up meds at least once a week. Once I did run into a substitute pharmacist who wanted me and everyone else nearby to know that my new medicine interacted with my birth control pills. He could have lowered his voice.

[Bipolarchic14]

I am embarrassed with how angry I get. I have a bunch of sloths working at my pharmacy and I get impatient quickly.

[Stuck1nhead]

When it comes to psych meds I do not. But I had to pick up nystatin a few times and I always found it embarrassing.

[Nammu]

I'm going to miss my pharmacy, they knew me so when I was in line they would get the meds before I had to tell them who I was, that was nice.