I have been using this pharmacy for 4 months. We live in a very small town. Ever since I started bringing my prescriptions there I have been treated rudely and unprofessionally by the entire pharmacy staff. I have severe arthritis and bulging discs in my spine that cause me severe pain that requires 4 medications to manage. This pharmacy has done everything in their power to deny or delay or confuse my prescriptions. They have made issues up when their were no issues, they have overrode my Doctors orders when they were clearly indicated on my prescriptions. This past month they just "forgot" to place the reorder for my long acting pain medication so I have been out of that cold turkey for 3 days in very bad withdrawal and crippling spinal Tuesday has left me bedridden for 3 days. But the absolute WORST thing they did was fill my short acting pain med on Thursday (Nix 0046-0124-01) (same day they informed me that they failed to reorder my long acting pain med and so I would be without that until the following Tuesday) with 100% fake hydrocodone. When I say 100% FAKE I mean 100 % Fake. Honest to God there is not one miligram of painkiller in the 90 pills this pharmacy gave me. I am in agonizing pain. The pills look like malinkrodt 10/325 but they are 100% FAKE. I am terrified of what they actually gave me. My kidneys have been hurting ever since I took the FAKE pills Rite Aid gave me. There must be some type of nephrotoxin in them because like I said ever since I took them my kidneys have been throbbing and aching and I have been having a hard time urinating.
I am so angry but I'm more scared. How can this happen in Amecripple have a 2 & 4 year old to take care of. I am also care-giver to my husband who was hit with an IED in Afghanistan. I need my medications in order to function. Rite Aid pharmacy has stolen my entire life by what they have done. They should have just given me a phenol injection in the heart while I was there it would have been more humane then denying me the medicine that I need to get out of bed everyday and left me in pain that is so severe that I literally cannot stand up straight or even walk up our stairs to the 2nd floor. Rite Aid pharmacy has crippled me. I am now crippled. I have samples of the FAKE hydrocodone they dispensed me so I may contact a lawyer once I feel better. I honestly am in too much pain to do that right now. I want to EXPOSE RITE AID pharmacy every chance I get. They should have their license to dispense medicine revoked. They should not be dispensing FAKE kidney harming hydrocodone to patients with legitimate prescriptions because they don't like narcotics. My kidneys hurt so bad it's indescribable ever since I took those FAKE pills. Rite Aid pharmacy is downright dangerous. I advise getting your prescriptions at small local pharmacies. Avoid Rite Aid like the plague.
Jim
Florida,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, February 29, 2016
For all this is true, why are you not communicating with your doctor, especially the kidney matters?