Bonus Mystery Pill from the Pharmacy
April 22, 2010A couple weeks ago I went into the pharmacy to get my Coumadin refilled, you know, the blood thinning medicine. As I was taking my medicine a couple days ago, I noticed that I had a bonus mystery pill in my bottle!
I have never seen this type of pill before, and had no clue how it got in the bottle. So, I went back to my pharmacy to do some investigating.
“Umm, last time I was here I somehow ended up with this extra pill,” I told the pharmacist as I put the pill on the table.
“Oh. This was in the bottle?”
“Yes.”
She took it over to her computer, and searched through her pill identifier program.
“This is oxycodone,” she said after a few minutes.
“Okay.”
“Are you on this medicine right now?”
“Uhh, no. I haven’t been on it for two and a half years.”
“Oh. Well…do you want it back or do you just want me to throw it away?”
“You can throw it.”
And that was the end of that. Has anybody else ever had a mix-up from the pharmacy? With all the medicines I’ve gotten because of ulcerative colitis, I’m surprised I haven’t had a mix-up before. This was the first time.
Keep fighting,
~Dennis
Yes I have had this happen before! My son was on this medicine I don’t remember the name. But he told me it looked different compared to what he had been taking. So we returned the whole bottle and sure enough it was the wrong stuff!!! I had never heard of this happening before either!!