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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trinkwasser" data-source="post: 29560" data-attributes="member: 11875">This tight control is getting to be a pain. I always request my next prescription when I have a couple of weeks supply left, that gives them a week to get the script back to the pharmacy and extra time if they've run out of anything.Mother has a whole bunch of stuff which runs out at different times so I always used to put her prescriptions in early for the same reason.Suddenly we were finding things missing when we collected. Mother couldn't remember whether or not she'd ordered stuff so would then put in a reorder.Turned out the clerks at the practice were instructed to hold back prescriptions until they were "due" and if they were ordered too early or if the patients were thought to be "over-ordering" to cancel the repeats altogether. So the pharmacy was getting the prescriptions to pick one item at a time over several days instead of the whole batch at once.Now mother was "only" running out of things like blood pressure pills and diuretics but I've heard of this happening elsewhere where insulin dependent diabetics were DENIED their insulin because they were "using too much" honestly the mind boggles.</blockquote>

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