randibear
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for all you active duty military, dependents, disabled vets, and military retirees!!
please don't forget that you can have your prescriptions filled at the base pharmacy.
we lost our hospital here at carswell afb (now joint reserve base). but we still have an outpatient clinic that filles prescriptions.
my husband and me, because i am a dependent, can get prescriptions filled there.
now mind you, they don't always have a lot of them and i have to go to wally world, but they do have an extensive listing of drugs.
i have it available and would be willing to let you know if they carry a particular drug or not.
so please don't forget your benefits -- it will save ya some money...
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butchieboo
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That is good advice Randi, unfortunately, to get drugs out of the VA pharmacy you need a script written by a VA doctor.
Given that the VA is the WORLD'S BIGGEST HMO, and the ID department at the VA's will not send your blood to Igenex. Nor will they accept or trust any of the seven or eight blood test results you already have.
The chances of getting anything that will help a person with lyme disease are little and nill.
How do you get them??
They have already told me they WILL NEVER give me the types of painkillers or antibiotics(open ended) that the doctors on the outside, that I probably have a "deal of some kind going with".
You bet they said that! They choose not to believe a VietNam Vet did'nt use and abuse drugs as well. We just can never seem to get rid of the stigma!
Anyway. Until the VA fills skripts that our outside doctors write for us...they are useless and Wally mart is even cheaper now.
NO not for the painkillers or muscle relaxers but for a lot of the abx's and other meds.
randibear
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i am so sorry, hon. mike is a disabled vet from nam (two tours), so he has a va disability and because of that, i am a dependent, so i, too, have an id card. (my dad was 31 years air force).
our pharmacy here fills prescriptions from regular docs (non military). we just take them in, and no problem-o.
mike is on zetia for cholesterol. they didn't have my blood pressure meds and hormones so i have to go to wally world for those.
but they do have antibiotics and have never questioned my prescriptions.
can you get to another base? i don't remember what va you go to, but if you can get a script from a LLMD, then go to a base, they will fill it.
at least, that's my experience here, might not be at other bases.
(my mom is at wright-patterson afb and can get prescriptions filled anywhere, on and off base.)
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