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Dec 14, 2018, 11:35 PM
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I ran out of Wellbutrin XL yesterday and dropped off the paper prescription for it this afternoon after work. Pdoc on uses paper, so I read and know wht it said. This evening i go back to pick it up and the price is 75% less than what I've been paying recently and still less than when I started a few years ago. I mention that to the pharmacist and the response was that it must just be since it's December my insurance paid more. I tried to explain my insurance doesn't work that way. I asked if it was the right version, long acting instead of an older one, and she said yes. She told me to go ahead and pay the lesser amount.
I got home and it is indeed Wellbutrin SR 150mg not XL. SR dosing us typically half your daily dose twice a day, sometimes there's exceptions. It's a taller peak and only last half as long as the other. If I wasn't out of Wellbutrin XL and have a horrible headache and have to work I would worry as much. Pdoc's office VM list phone numbers for non life threatening, but its a couple weeks old so it list his partner instead of him. Non-life threatening emergency is an oxymoron statement, but I don't even know if this should be considered one. Should I call pdocs after hours number or call the pharmacy and try to find a time when a different pharmacist is working? |
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Dec 15, 2018, 01:57 PM
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I'd go back to the pharmacy and ask some questions. That does seem odd.
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 unaluna
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#3
Dec 15, 2018, 02:29 PM
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I'm going to head over with the old bottle to show them and hope there's a different pharmacist working. If not should I try a different location or call pdocs after hours number?
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Dec 15, 2018, 03:51 PM
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Well I took the old bottle and new one. There was a different tech and same pharmacist. At first the tech couldn't figure out what I was talking about then after explaining it again he had the pharmacist pull up the scanned copy of the original. The pharmacist apologized for the mistake & that they didn't believe me last night.
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 Travelinglady, unaluna
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| unaluna
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#5
Dec 15, 2018, 05:03 PM
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Wonderful! Sad to say, they do make mistakes. Glad she owned up to it.
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Dec 15, 2018, 05:14 PM
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Wow! It makes you wonder how they ever get ANYTHING right! XL vs SR is a big difference! "Are you smarter than a first grader?"!
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#7
Dec 15, 2018, 07:08 PM
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I told the pharmacist if I took the 12 hour version 2x a day I would have been getting twice as much and even taking your daily dose as SR instead of XL it's all being dumped in my system at once and works over a shorter period of time. She also tried to tell me the research is wrong and they both work exactly the same...
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#8
Dec 15, 2018, 10:36 PM
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Good thing you were able to speak up for yourself.
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Dec 21, 2018, 08:05 AM
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Speaking up was a smart thing to do! I'm rather shocked that a pharmacy would make such a mistake.
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