Allergy Lesson

So this crazy lady comes into the pharmacy today after we had filled 2 prescriptions for her on Friday. Both were filled for generics because the brand name drug is no longer available.  She is demanding a refund because she "is allergic to ALL generic drugs."  I replied that "there is no way you can be allergic to over 1,000 generic drugs." She then said, "yes I am because the doctor gave them all to me in the hospital and I was allergic to them all."  I then told her that "maybe it is all in your head that you are allergic."  She replied with "no it is not, my doctor said that too, but no I really am allergic to ALL generics." 

After wasting 20 minutes of my time trying to explain to her that there was no brand name for the drugs she was prescribed and that the doctor was not going to give her anything with a brand name available she finally left without her medicine, guess she is not that nauseous.

Customer Pharmacology Lesson

A guy came in today to get a prescription for generic Lortab 10/500.  When he received his bottle he asked, "do you have any other than the blue ones?"  I told him, "no, the blue ones are the only ones our wholesaler has."  He then responded that "these give me the heartburns and I like the pink ones better because they are pink because they have a pepto bismol coating." I said "I think that is just the coloring and I am pretty sure it is not coated with pepto bismol." He came back with, "well that's what one of the girls I am in nursing school with told me."  (Apparently they know something I don't.)

Dumb Question of the Day

I have been off for a few days so haven't had any stories to post.  One of my friends had this question asked of her and thought I would share it.

A lady calls the pharmacist and asks "why are you charging me more for my prescription than what I was paying while I was on insurance?" (Duh...not even worth an answer!!)

Rendered Speechless....

Today's crackhead story occured a while back, but is too funny not to share.

So this lady calls the pharmacist and says that she "is using boric acid capsules vaginally" (for yeast infection) and wants to know "what will happen if he gets some in his mouth?"  I have had some crazy questions, but this one about did me in.  I responded, "you mean he took one of the capsules?" She said "ummmmm noooo." I then realized what she was talking about and was actually speechless.  I didn't know what to say.  When I got over the shock of the actually question I was just asked I told her that "it is rat poison and could possibly kill him :)" 

Seriously....why would someone call and ask a pharmacist that??? Talk about TMI!!

Purple Drank...

For all you who do not know what the purple drank is please let me explain...

"Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip hop community in the southern United States, originating in Houston, Texas. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine.^[1] Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as Sprite soft drink or Mountain Dew and pieces of Jolly Rancher candy. The purplish hue of purple drank comes from dyes in the cough syrup." wikipedia

We get lots of callers asking if we have this type of medicine in purple... if it is not purple then they do not want it :(

So today a lady calls and asks "what color is your phenergan with codeine" (sketch)? I tell her that "I don't know because it is not open".  She then proceeds to ask "is it purple?" (getting sketchier).  I then tell her "it is GREEN".  She then asks "is it red?" I reply "no it is GREEN!!".  She then says, "Oh, you have the green one" and hangs up.