Re: Can You Get H1N1 More Than Once?
SNIPPED QUOTE :[I was also trying to determine if Tamifllu was like an antibiiotic in that one should take all of it in order to not build up resistance (I was worried about it).
To my SURPRISE, the doctor wrote a script for my daughter and - get this - she wrote it for 7 pills! 7! And that is how the pharmacy filled it - in a little zip lock bag! You could tell he had just taken the foil package of 10 and torn 3 off (the rest were still *connected*)....I guess she (the doctor) figured I still had 3 at home and that was all I was gonna get!
I had another zip lock bag incident this spring when I had the flu - the pharmacist only gave me 8 pills because he said that's all they had left. Worked though, so not complaining but still...this seems...wrong. END OF SNIP
IT"S VERY WRONG! This is exactly what leads to resistance. Prescribe the entire course, take the entire course.
There should be a law(s) regarding this practice, I had a pharmacy half fill a prescription once (I had sudden complication of pneumonia on a weekend evening and this pharmacy was only one open) and then I could not get the other half filled by any other pharmacy later , or even by the same pharmacy when they received more stock because "it is against the law, once any part of a prescription is filled, that ends that prescription use", So, triple beware!
SNIPPED QUOTE :[I was also trying to determine if Tamifllu was like an antibiiotic in that one should take all of it in order to not build up resistance (I was worried about it).
To my SURPRISE, the doctor wrote a script for my daughter and - get this - she wrote it for 7 pills! 7! And that is how the pharmacy filled it - in a little zip lock bag! You could tell he had just taken the foil package of 10 and torn 3 off (the rest were still *connected*)....I guess she (the doctor) figured I still had 3 at home and that was all I was gonna get!
I had another zip lock bag incident this spring when I had the flu - the pharmacist only gave me 8 pills because he said that's all they had left. Worked though, so not complaining but still...this seems...wrong. END OF SNIP
IT"S VERY WRONG! This is exactly what leads to resistance. Prescribe the entire course, take the entire course.
There should be a law(s) regarding this practice, I had a pharmacy half fill a prescription once (I had sudden complication of pneumonia on a weekend evening and this pharmacy was only one open) and then I could not get the other half filled by any other pharmacy later , or even by the same pharmacy when they received more stock because "it is against the law, once any part of a prescription is filled, that ends that prescription use", So, triple beware!
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