Stimulant question

[mirandah]

So I dropped the ball a bit and DS has run out of his twice daily stimulant meds. With the holiday rush, his doctors office is being extremely unresponsive. I called on Monday hoping to have them put the script
in the mail as they have done in the past, or at least let me come and pick it up, but they still haven't returned my repeated calls. We have an appt. next Monday and he runs out his stimulant tonight. Is there something else I can do or am I SOL?

[luvboston]

Call and talk to the secretary and tell her you need it stat. Also page whoever is on call if you get no response.

[mirandah]

Jan 4, 2017 12:28:10 GMT -5 luvboston said:

Call and talk to the secretary and tell her you need it stat. Also page whoever is on call if you get no response.

Thanks- that actually worked! Told them I had an emergency and needed to speak with nurse stat. Magically received a call back not from the nurse but from the front desk telling me the script was ready for pickup! Lesson learned- plan ahead for refills.

[mrsbuttinski]

Glad it worked out.

[bubbalicious]

Holidays and Vacations are a major pain for meds. We have run into something similar. Two ways we have dealt with it. 1. If you can skip a a dose here or there (or you find the med your kid spit out), then put those away for an emergency 2. A doc who can send the script electronically can cut out that hardcopy crap.

[mirandah]

Jan 6, 2017 11:09:57 GMT -5 bubbalicious said:

Holidays and Vacations are a major pain for meds. We have run into something similar. Two ways we have dealt with it. 1. If you can skip a a dose here or there (or you find the med your kid spit out), then put those away for an emergency 2. A doc who can send the script electronically can cut out that hardcopy crap.

I definitely hoard the stimulants! All the others he can't skip. Really stressful. To top it off, Walgreens screwed us up royally by printing the wrong label on one of ours. It said take 1.5 a day when he was supposed to take 3. They noticed the error but said "just ignore the label." Okay fine, but when we ran out insurance wouldn't fill because they saw 1.5 a day. I was on the phone for most of Wednesday figuring that crap out.

[bubbalicious]

Jan 9, 2017 11:29:58 GMT -5 mirandah said:

I definitely hoard the stimulants! All the others he can't skip. Really stressful. To top it off, Walgreens screwed us up royally by printing the wrong label on one of ours. It said take 1.5 a day when he was supposed to take 3. They noticed the error but said "just ignore the label." Okay fine, but when we ran out insurance wouldn't fill because they saw 1.5 a day. I was on the phone for most of Wednesday figuring that crap out. Walgreens did whaaaaat?! That sucks!