suspicious Mind?

Less · 11-12-2007, 17:34

Once a month I have to visit my Doctor & once a month he gives me a prescription. No problem there I hear you say and I agree, the fact that a standard pack of one tablets is 30 and a standard pack of pills is 28 so nothing lines up, I have a surplus of one or a shortage of the other.

Today I took my prescription to the Chemists, left it called back an hour later. Attached to the bag was an I.O.U. The Chemist had run out of one of my items.
It was One pill short, sorry about that said the Pharmacist but I'll let you have the other one if you take the bother to call in, after all it's only one tablet.
This particular medication comes in bubble packs of 28, when I opened the container there where 26 on one strip and a neatly placed 1 that had been cut off the strip.

Now, from reading about my medication, (isn't the web wonderful), these drugs can be bought on the black market at a very good mark up to enhance a night out.

So, if I and 27 other people don't bother to call for the one missing tablet someone has a very profitable packet of tablets to sell on.

Sorry it's taken so long but here are some questions,

Do I just forget about the missing tablet? Do I call in for the tablet? Do I mention this to the authorities? Do these Chemists have some sort of quality control system that needs them to take one tablet from a random packet and test it to ensure there is no forgery etc?

Stanleymad · 11-12-2007, 17:39

Now u have advertised the fact Less im sure a lot of people may test that theory out for u, & not suggesting accyweb members are suspicious - but theres google or offliners

WillowTheWhisp · 11-12-2007, 17:46

But what do you do on the day when you don't have a tablet to take?

I've got a problem with these packs of 28 because my doctor's surgery says we are only allowed to order them once a month but 28 days is not a month.

Bonnyboy · 11-12-2007, 17:47

Did the chemist give you one of those receipt things saying you are owed medication ? I imagine they must have to answer to someone about their medication quotas, don’t think many people would call in to pick up a single pill though.

Less · 11-12-2007, 17:53

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Did the chemist give you one of those receipt things saying you are owed medication ?

Yes, he did but If I don't call in for the pill and give him the receipt it doesn't take much to regenerate a replacement receipt with today's P.C's.

Good grief, I could do a pretty good job myself back in the 90's with a bog standard cash register, there just wasn't anything worth taking the risk for!

blazey · 11-12-2007, 17:55

I dont see how they can tamper with your medication like that. Why was a tablet cut off the strip in the first place? Surely they cant prescribe a single tablet to someone and if they needed the drug for testing they surely can request a single tablet rather than tamper with medication that is to be prescribed?

I'd actually go and ask another chemist personally about whether its ok to do that, and if your still not sure then ask your doctor next time you see him/her.

lancsdave · 11-12-2007, 17:56

The best way to deal with it going forward is to only budget what profit you will make off the 27 you get

WillowTheWhisp · 11-12-2007, 17:58

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Originally Posted by blazey

I dont see how they can tamper with your medication like that. Why was a tablet cut off the strip in the first place? Surely they cant prescribe a single tablet to someone and if they needed the drug for testing they surely can request a single tablet rather than tamper with medication that is to be prescribed?

I'd actually go and ask another chemist personally about whether its ok to do that, and if your still not sure then ask your doctor next time you see him/her.

Sometimes they come in blister packs of 30 but if the doctor only prescribes 28 then the chemist can only give you 28 so has to tamper with the pack and cut 2 off.

Less · 11-12-2007, 18:07

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Originally Posted by blazey

I dont see how they can tamper with your medication like that.

No neither can I.

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Originally Posted by blazey

Why was a tablet cut off the strip in the first place?

I don't know, ermm do you suppose thats why I asked the question?

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Originally Posted by blazey

Surely they cant prescribe a single tablet to someone

My Doctor prescribed 28 not 1 it's my Chemist that has short changed me, please do keep up!

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Originally Posted by blazey

and if they needed the drug for testing they surely can request a single tablet rather than tamper with medication that is to be
prescribed?

I would have thought if it was for testing then the whole packet of 28 would be taken, otherwise, how can I be sure that what I got hasn't been tampered with?

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Originally Posted by blazey

I'd actually go and ask another chemist personally about whether its ok to do that, and if your still not sure then ask your doctor next time you see him/her.

Now that makes sense, well done!

Less · 11-12-2007, 18:09

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Sometimes they come in blister packs of 30 but if the doctor only prescribes 28 then the chemist can only give you 28 so has to tamper with the pack and cut 2 off.

Nope, it deffo' says 28 on the pack, are you trying to say that someone was given an extra one, one month because it was leap year?

WillowTheWhisp · 11-12-2007, 18:19

Who knows.

blazey · 11-12-2007, 18:20

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Originally Posted by Less

No neither can I.

I don't know, ermm do you suppose thats why I asked the question?

My Doctor prescribed 28 not 1 it's my Chemist that has short changed me, please do keep up!

I would have thought if it was for testing then the whole packet of 28 would be taken, otherwise, how can I be sure that what I got hasn't been tampered with?

Now that makes sense, well done!

The reason i am mentioning the 1 tablet is that you suggested it could of been used for testing, where as I am thinking of other reasons why it may of gone astray, i.e. cutting it off for someone else.

I am not asking you the questions, i am simply toying with the questions that one would think of in this situation.

I am not a fan of any medication personally, so I dont bother with the doctor, so i dont know policy on tablets and if they can be cut off the strip like that.

Less · 11-12-2007, 18:24

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Originally Posted by blazey

I am not a fan of any medication personally, so I dont bother with the doctor,

You will be, in about thirty years time when the hot flushes hit you, until then enjoy a Doctor free life, if you can!

Ber999T · 12-12-2007, 02:25

Now lets see if I can help a bit, and I stand to be corrected too, but think it may work like this;

1/ Bureaucats can only work the month out as (7 days x 4 weeks = 28 days) so therefore a month is 28 days.

2/ Yes pills can be split to make up shortfall on someone else's script, hence the IOU.

3/ If you ask the pharmacist they will explain it to you as to why they have had to do it that way.

4/ Ask your Dr to state the number of tablets and that is what you will be given, this helps where 1 type is 28 and another is 30, and if you can do it so that every 4 weeks you need new script ask for the 30 to be reduced to 28 saves you having the extra at end of month.

Have replied with a bit of cheek but hope you find some of the info above helpful.

Neil · 12-12-2007, 03:01

Please don't encourage Less, he already knows the answer to his own question.

He is just letting you lot waste your time answering him