randibear
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i started getting blurry vision when the gastro put me on levaquin. yesterday it was bad.
so i called my walmart pharmacist. she said, no blurry vision is not a side effect of levaquin and i almost went what??
if you read any of the side effects and at askapatient, there's plenty of people who have had vision problems on levaquin.
i told her i had no vision problems before the levaquin so it must be that and i'm not taking anything else.
she said well call your doctor but i don't think so.
tomorrow morning i'm calling him and asking for another antibiotic.
don't pharmacists read these drug reviews? i was stunned. she said the only side effect of levaquin was muscle damage...
now i'm not a rocket scientist but even i can read...
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Catgirl
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No offense, but walmart is probably not the best place to find a quality pharmacist. Those people are fried from seeing so many people all day. I don't know when they have the time to even think, much less research.
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Ditto on that with Walmart. They have missed drug interactions that I caught being a sleuth on the internet.
Having said that, even express scripts has missed drug interactions and they are a big pharmacy.
Read what you can about a new drug you are prescribed and it doesn't hurt to look up the drug interactions of that new drug with what you are already on. You might just catch a potential problem before it happens.
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Summer3
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I have looked around extensively for a good pharmacy and I haven't found one. The pharmacists have been 100% UNHELPFUL. Several times they have messed up my oral antibiotic order and made it so that my insurance wouldn't cover those meds at all anymore. Other times they call me telling me my dose of Nystatin is dangerous and other incorrect information.
I always end up having to ask someone at the doctor's office if I have any type of serious concern. I don't trust the pharmacy whatsoever.
poppy
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I have heard that independent pharmacies are better at giving individual attention. If you can find one. Sometimes their prices are higher.
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