Author: qhorsegal
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:16 am
I also live in a small town and use WalMart pharmacy for all of my medicine. But I would never consider taking my Suboxone prescription there. I have it filled at a pharmacy near my Dr.’s office which he told me fills for alot of his patients. I have only had one script filled so far but it was a good experience and I thanked the pharmacist before I left for being so cool about it. One of the things that I was the most worried about when I started Suboxone treatment was the stigma attatched to being in treatment. I went with my Mom a little over a year ago to her induction appointment. She had to go in to the appt. and then after the initial consultation leave and go pick up one pill from the pharmacy and return to the office with the pill for observation. We took it into the pharmacy at Kroger near the Dr. Office. When my mom handed the pharmacist the prescription he was smiling and then looked down at the script and said "whoa…I don’t even know if we CARRY this medication!" with this really surprised look on his face. It was horrible for my Mom. She was so ashamed, nervous and embarassed already and he made it much worse with that reaction. We waited for it to be ready and when she went up to get the medicine she told the pharmacist, in a very calm and pleasant tone, that he needed to think about the way he reacts to someone bringing in this medicine in the future. She said, "you don’t know how hard it was for me to do this today, what you said really hurt my feelings and embarrased me. You really shouldn’t react that way to people in the future." He apologized…but it was very awkward to say the least. I am so happy that I didn’t have to deal with that. My Dr. is about 35 miles away from where I live and as I said I fill my meds at a pharmacy there, I would be scared to death to fill it anywhere in the town I live because it would definately be talked about!
