I loved coming here, the people are just fantastic, however I was forced to change pharmacy's last year, due to some rather problematic issues I had with this location. I have been prescribed Klonopin all of my life, to treat my anxiety & neuropathy from being the random victim of an attempted homicide back in 1997. Nowadays, doctors regularly test their patients medicinal compliance, typically with a regular urinalysis, and if it doesn't show the medications you're prescribed, you are looked at questionably, even to the point of being clinically discharged by your' physicians, if they are not. That said, I was completely taken aghast last year in 2018, when my UA came back negative for the medication that I have relied upon for quality of life, my Klonopin. I disputed the results, like anyone else would have in my shoes, and my attorney suggested I pay for a private lab to do a hair follicle test to prove my compliance. I did just that, paying NoCo Drug Testing in Loveland $225 out~of~pocket (which is hard when you only get $17k in annual disability). I had them go back three months. What the test showed, caused my head to reel; there was absolutely no trace of clonazepam in my system. Now, you don't know me from Adam, and I could just be making this all up... but that would be only if my caregiver didn't personally watch me take me my medication, which I was taught to take sublingually, rendering me with a blue tongue for several minutes. In any event, this incident cost me dearly, as I was left to find another doctor, and had the very uncomfortable experience of having to relate my situation to my new, obviously skeptical clinicians, who then subjected me to more frequent UA's, just to see if the drug that I've taken life a vitamin all of my life, was indeed there. I filed a formal complaint with Walgreens corporate, and Teva Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer, who both told.me they'd conduct an internal investigation, however the damage was already done. I found numerous other patients who had posted similar such events, which had also occurred to them, and I found that Teva had had several lots of Klonopin recalled in 2018, but nobody was interested in testing the clonazepam that I had saved for analysis, which I took to the local ER who told me they didn't test substances (what if someone comes in with an adverse reaction to an unknown medication?), the police station, who told me to take it to a private lab at my expense (not an affordable option), or Walgreens. Nobody would help. I felt 'dirty', and that's a nasty feeling, especially when you've done nothing wrong.
Thankfully, there are doctors out there who are compassionate, and I was fortunate enough to find a new team of caregivers who eventually lent me their trust, after all of my UA's started showing positive again, having had changed pharmacies immediately after this ordeal.
I can't "unrecommend" Walgreens, as I never had a previous problem with them ~ever~ in my lifetime, but it was very important to me, to post about what I went through, as a result.
~Richard read more
