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AngelofSprings7 Asked June 2024

My pharmacy usually delivers my meds as I can no longer drive and am disabled. Now they refuse to deliver the alprazolam. What to do?

I can’t drive am disabled, can’t take an Uber which would be 49.00 to pick up a 1.69 rx. My meds all went up this year to >1k. That’s a third of my income. The alprazolam is for when my bp goes over 200 systolic it causes severe anxiety then goes up more. It’s a life saver but I have no way to get it. I have uncontrollable bp. Without it I’d be in hospital weekly. There’s no one here to ask. I only get 15 a month.
no Uber or Lyft will pick up. The drugstore won’t deliver. I put under arthritis because some there may have problems getting pain meds too.

CaregiverL Jun 2024
Can you get mail order from Express Scripts?
Igloocar Jul 2024
AlvaDeer Jun 2024
This is a question for your Pharmacy.
They will tell you how to get a surrogate to pick up your medications if you are unable to leave to get them.

Discuss this with your doctor as to which pharmacy or formulary is best when ordering your medications.
MissesJ Jun 2024
Yes—at least in the three states in which I’ve resided, any adult can pick up your restricted prescriptions. They will have to sign for them.

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Mjustice98 Jun 2024
My mail order pharmacy will deliver with a signature and ID upon delivery, find a new pharmacy

Llamalover47 Jun 2024
AngelofSprings7: Pose your question to your physician. Either get an alternative med or perhaps someone could pick it up for you.

Midkid58 Jun 2024
My benzos can be 'mailed' to me. I just have to have my DL on file at the pharmacy. Maybe that's unusual for my state, but my pharmacy always lets me know that I can 'skip the line' so to speak, and have my meds delivered.

Even a friend or relative can pick up a controlled substance for you. It's having ID that is the bugaboo.

NeedHelpWithMom Jun 2024
I will pick up my daughter’s ADHD meds when she can’t do it. Do you know anyone who you can ask to pick up your meds for you?

Ohwow323 Jun 2024
Amazon is now doing prescriptions, also check with your drs office they may have an option of having medication delivered. Also, if you are on medical, medicaid and medicare they may have an option to have it mailed to you.
My insurance company continues to call me and mail me paperwork to have may meds mailed to me.

southiebella Jun 2024
Amazon has a prescription service. Maybe check and see if your med is something that they handle and deliver.

Amazon also has a text-based or video based service to see a doc. I used them a few months ago when I had an infection.

It was easy peasy.

JoAnn29 Jun 2024
I am with Alva. This med seems to be for anxiety. Maybe there is another med not so pricy. I know when this happened to my nephew, he was able to pay Medicaid insurance a little extra and get the med he needed. It was cheaper than the med its self. Office of Aging helped him. It had something to be a tier like a level.

There is help thru Medicare where your Medicare part B is paid for and prescriptons are paid for. Office again should help you. Also call your CountyvDisabilities Dept. Maybevu can get an aide.
Grandma1954 Jun 2024
according to AngelofSprings7 the medication is $1.69 not pricy. The Uber is pricy.
Shayann Jun 2024
You may want to call some other pharmacies in your area, especially independent pharmacies. Ask if they deliver and if they'll deliver that med, then ask for a price quote, if possible, to make sure your copay will be the same or similar. Then you can ask the pharmacy to call and transfer the prescription from your current pharmacy to the new one. I believe controlled substances can be transferred between pharmacies one time only. You can also ask your doctor to send a new Rx to the new pharmacy. Hope this helps.

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