Dodgy looking package

[klondike]

It's easier to spot fake packaging than fake bubble packs which should all show things like medicine, dosage, expiry date and batch number with the fixed things printed and the variables like the last two embossed.

[Mups]

It's easier to spot fake packaging than fake bubble packs which should all show things like medicine, dosage, expiry date and batch number with the fixed things printed and the variables like the last two embossed.

But in the 3+ years I have been ordering this medicine,  it has always, without fail, come in the manufacturers boxes,  not just dropped in a polythene bag. 
When I phoned the company last week,  even they said they should not have been sent like this.  That is why they are investigating.
Would you take Paracetamol if it came through the post loose and not in the usual packet?

[Michael Rolls]

I should be worried

[Alex]

Can you not get them from your Vet Mups  ?

[Mups]

Can you not get them from your Vet Mups  ?

Yes,  I used to do that in the early days Alex,  until I found they were charging me almost double what other  animal pharmacies charged,  and I just couldn't afford it every month long term. 
That is why I browsed at 2 or 3 veterinary pharmacies I have used before,  saw the better prices, so asked for the prescription to buy elsewhere instead.  They are not allowed to refuse.

With human doctor prescriptions you can use whatever chemist you want, can't you,  and the vets ones are just the same.  You don't have to buy from them,  just because they prescribed it.
   
Mind you, I have to pay my Vet £24.95 for writing a 3 month repeat prescription,  but at least then I can buy from whoever I want then.   
My Vet then emails the prescription straight to the pharmacy of my choice for me.   It is then checked by the pharmacy's own vets and then they send the drugs out to me. 
 It saves me about £80 each month doing it that way,  and that's not to be sniffed at is it.

I know its a lot of money,  but while Lif is still happy and enjoying life,  I can't not do it for her.
If she felt and looked ill, and just lay in her bed all day, or was in pain,  I would have to re-consider.


   

[Michael Rolls]

Thankfully that's not the case

[Mups]

The grand finale!

I printed the label the chap emailed me for returning the meds,  found the cardboard packet they came in,  wrote a covering letter for them,  then packed everything up, sealed the box, stuck the new label on and was going off to the post office,  when I heard the phone ringing.

It was the pharmaceutical company saying they have just been informed that everything is alright. 
Apparently that is how they are packing loose tablets now.  (When I say 'loose'  I mean the foil strips containing the pills).
It seems that if I had chosen the 'How many boxes'  option,  instead of 'how many pills' option I would have been sent the 2 boxes of 30 capsules that I usually have. 

I told them I will phone the flippin'  order through next month!    
This is Liffey.   She's another Bedlington, same as Gertie.

[klondike]

Seems odd if you weren't splitting packets. Don't they usually have information sheets too? A lot of animal meds are repurposed human meds.

[Michael Rolls]

Lovely doggie!

[CHF]

Liffey is a cutie. 

[Mups]

Thankyou  CHF and Michael. 

Lif is a good girl,  but she is getting on a bit now.  She will be 14 in April.
I have known her since the minute she was born, as I had her Mummy back in those days and Lif was born at home here.
The 'babies'  back in  2012.     
The 'blue' Beddies  are born jet black,  then as their coat grows it goes just like women's hair when they are silver grey but die it black.
As their adult coat grows through, it starts turning silver at the roots, so when they are clipped, more and more black gets trimmed off and they end up the silver-blue of an adult one day.

Little Gertie was a dark chocolate colour at birth,  (they call it 'Liver')  but turned in to a creamy-beige when she grew up.