Pill bottles
I hate these kid proof bottles! They can be a bear to open sometimes especially if you have wet hands. I can understand those of you who have young children wanting to have this type of bottle at home but the rest of us don't need it.
I also think the pharmacies should take into account thier customers needs when dispensing prescriptions. Child proof bottles are not senior or handicapped friendly. People with limited motor function or arthritis cannot open these bottles, the pharmacies need to take this into account and offer better solutions. Hell I am normal and have trouble getting the caps off sometimes. I've often wondered how many people have died becuase they could not get the medicine they needed?
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There's a pharmacy that ...
There's a pharmacy that has bottles that have a little lever on the side you push down with your thumb and then turn the cap. I want to say Walgreens does that.
You can ask for the easy ...
You can ask for the easy open style tops but they will glare at you with a look as if you just asked them to help you kill every toddler on the planet.
When you have NO children at home, there is no reason they shouldn't make it easier to get the easy open style tops. It should be in your file as the default for you as a customer so you wouldn't have to ask every time and put up with their wicked glares.
Ever notice how, no matter which one you go to, almost everyone working at the pharmacies look and act as if they've been "eating too many of the apples off of their apple cart"? LOL! I swear 90% of them are on something and something strong the way they move so terribly slow and never seem to understand what you tell them or what they see on their monitor screen. It shouldn't take 20 minutes to enter an Rx refill, a REFILL, that is not a schedule whatever controlled substance, same as the last ten or twenty refills, insurance info and address/phone are all exactly the same. It just seems they always have something they get hung up on and have to take twenty minutes per person for no apparent reason. I've changed from one to another to another and every pharmacy is the same way, drugged out I'm sure. What other excuse can there be? I know they have a lot of red tape to deal with but c'mon, it's a refill and no changes of any kind.
I agree. I had shoulder ...
I agree. I had shoulder surgery a couple of years ago and was on narcotic pain killers. Nothing hurts quite like getting bone sawed in half. One pharmacy refused to put non child-proof lids on even though I don't have kids at home, and I proved that I couldn't get the child proof cap off with one hand. I asked for, and got my prescription back and took it to walgreens. I didn't even have to ask for the right lids. They offered to make them non-childproof.
It's not like it wasn't obvious.. a 3 inch thick layer of bandage, and a sling is not something you can miss.
I've never had a problem ...
I've never had a problem with my own prescriptions at a pharmacy. Even a new prescription never took very long. I have always had pretty friendly, and knowlegeable pharmacists. It seems any time Adam's mom picks up her prescriptions or has me pick it up...that's when I have issues. It's strange. She uses Walgreens. I use CVS. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Funny!! While we're ...
Funny!!
While we're on the subject...is it just ME...or does everyone else on the planet have problems opening everything at the "open here" spot???
Not to mention opening a jar!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't even get me started..LOL!!