I could not more highly recommend La Jolla Discount Pharmacy, especially for IVF meds!! The pharmacist, David, went SO above and beyond to help us out, that we just had to share this miraculous story incase any other women doing IVF find themselves in this situation!
Here's the backstory- it's definitely worth the read because it felt truly miraculous, and the kindness and helpfulness of complete strangers was so heartwarming and will never be forgotten!
My husband and I are currently going through our first IVF cycle at Gen 5 Ferility (who we also couldn't more highly recommend). Our egg retrieval surgery was schedule for the morning of 4/21, so we needed to do the trigger meds at 12:45 am Easter Sunday. I overnighted on Friday the Ovidrel trigger injection and our Cetrotide refill from CVS Specialty Pharmacy, since that is who our insurance requires us to go through. I had gotten the Lupron from La Jolla discount pharmacy Friday after my appointment at the recommendation of my Gen 5 team, since that one needed to be compounded and wasn't too expensive out of pocket. My CVS Specialty order got delivered Saturday afternoon, and when I went to unbox all the meds that night at 10pm to get them ready for our 12:45 am injection , I realized the pharmacy only sent one syringe of Ovidrel in the box when I need 2. The instructions on the box even said take 2 syringes, so the pharmacy must have messed up when packing it.
I literally was trying every possible Hail Mary move I could think of, and one of them was to email the after hours email for Apri Pharmacy. I put urgent in the subject and explained everything and said I knew it was a longshot, but if someone saw the email and there's anything they could do to help, I'd really appreciate it and left my phone number.
The sweetest man, Jason, from Apri Pharmacy literally called me back 30 minutes later and said he just happened to check the email and saw our message and wanted to give us a call and try to help! When he called we were on our way to the ER right next to La Jolla Discount Pharmacy because that's the only thing else I could think to try at that point and was desperate! (I figured since I knew that pharmacy had the meds in stock, maybe there was a chance someone in the ER right next store could access it or know someone to call? Unlikely, but again, desperate lol). Jason said he will try and call all the pharmacists and see if anyone can come in and open the pharmacy for us to get is the injection. I am seriously SO blown away by his kindness and desire to help us, and still can't believe it.
He ended up not only calling his Apri pharmacists, but called other pharmacists in the area, and the pharmacists who owns La Jolla Discount Pharmacy, David, agreed to drive all the way from Rancho Santa Fe at 11 pm at night aven though he has. Sick kid at home, and open the pharmacy for us make the trigger med and get it to us in time! He was also THE NICEST most helpful man and I can't believe he was willing to do that! My husband and I were and still are truly blown away at his willingness to do that! And it was unbelievable that we were already on our way to La Jolla Discount Pharmacy to go to the ER next to it.
David luckily had all the personal phone numbers for our Gen 5 team, and he reached out to all of them trying to get approval to fill out. Our Gen 5 team is amazing and they all responded back to with approval. We are so thankful to our Gen 5 team for responding to David so late at night on a weekend- we are so appreciate and feel so lucky to have a team that really cares!
We literally left the pharmacy at 12:15 to make it home right before our injection at 12:45. I am still blown away that worked out and truly feel like it was a miracle and we could not be more grateful, especially to Jason with Apri pharmacy and David with La Jolla Discount Pharmacy! And I literally have both their cell numbers now, and Jason told me he was planning to stay up and wanted me to call and let him know when we got the meds from David, and if there was any issue, he would help us troubleshoot more.
So if you want to get your meds from a pharmacist who truly cares and wants to help, go to La Jolla Discount pharmacy and Apri Pharmacy! read more