good pharmacy
Feb. 25th, 2007 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioKudos to Franck's Avalon Community Pharmacy, recommended to me by my vet.
I have never actually been to this pharmacy. Truth be told, without consulting a map I couldn't tell you where Avalon is. (It's, um, a suburb, somewhere.) I have never met my pharmacist. However, even though they are not especially local, they deliver. One of my cats is on a maintenance drug that has to be compounded; I call them, they use the credit-card number I have on file with them, and two days later the drug fairies being a bag to my door.
The same cat was recently diagnosed with a new malaise. My vet told me that it's best if he gets half a tablet twice a day, but if that's too hard for me I can just give him one tablet once a day. (Breaking pills can be hard.) However, when the drug fairies did their thing, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had sliced all the tablets neatly in half for me. I asked my vet about it; she did not ask them to do that. They looked at the prescription and did something to help me out.
I currently get my own maintenance drugs through a mail-order program through my insurance. I'm guessing that a regular pharmacy won't be able to give me the discount the mail-order place gives (two months' co-pay gets three months' medicine), but I should ask. And while I don't often need other medicines, I know where I'll call when I do. These guys are great!
I have never actually been to this pharmacy. Truth be told, without consulting a map I couldn't tell you where Avalon is. (It's, um, a suburb, somewhere.) I have never met my pharmacist. However, even though they are not especially local, they deliver. One of my cats is on a maintenance drug that has to be compounded; I call them, they use the credit-card number I have on file with them, and two days later the drug fairies being a bag to my door.
The same cat was recently diagnosed with a new malaise. My vet told me that it's best if he gets half a tablet twice a day, but if that's too hard for me I can just give him one tablet once a day. (Breaking pills can be hard.) However, when the drug fairies did their thing, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had sliced all the tablets neatly in half for me. I asked my vet about it; she did not ask them to do that. They looked at the prescription and did something to help me out.
I currently get my own maintenance drugs through a mail-order program through my insurance. I'm guessing that a regular pharmacy won't be able to give me the discount the mail-order place gives (two months' co-pay gets three months' medicine), but I should ask. And while I don't often need other medicines, I know where I'll call when I do. These guys are great!
Re: Nice to know
Date: 2007-02-27 03:19 am (UTC)Re: Nice to know
Date: 2007-02-27 08:39 pm (UTC)"Rolling my own" is the only reasonable way to do it. For some weird stuff in the past, I had to do some serious chemical work. Fortunately, we have a mortar, pestle, and measuring equipment.
One apothecary tried with another prescription, but the result was unusable for birds. Would have worked fine for dogs or cats, though.