Another day of struggling

[Cammy]

My battle with my withdrawal from 6 weeks of Lorazepam use in April is ongoing. Each time I make up a new taper plan, my CNS GABA receptors make me change it. Dealing with the drugstore has been a nightmare. The doctor gives me a prescription for X number of meds. I go to fill it. Out of courtesy I show them the latest taper plan so they know what the heck I am doing with these drugs. I give them extra time to fill the Rx...extra days in fact. I go back in and they have screwed up 75% of the prescription. Shorted me by huge amounts on one med, and not even bothered to fill the smaller dose Valium needed. Also gave me the wrong opiate even though I have been getting the same prescription for ages. Why, I asked them. Turns out they are trying to put their own interpretation on what I need right now and what I can get later. The taper plan clearly states that it is subject to change at a moments notice depending on patient response. I have already had to change it since last week. I had to get stern with them. I had to tell them to fill the prescriptions as written by the doctor and stop trying to put their own spin on things. How hard is it? The prescriptions are very clear - X number of tablets of Xmg drug. Period. Normally I would change drugstores, but have found other drugstores making multiple errors as well. This scares me. Less savvy customers might be getting the wrong drugs and doses and not realize it. This sudden spate of pharmacy incompetence is like an epidemic that I've noticed over the last 6 months or so. It's making me crazy. If their ineptitude causes me any harm or screws up this very precarious withdrawal process, then I'm going to do something I've never entertained before in my life - get a lawyer and sue the crap out of them. Enough is enough. I've NEVER seen anything like it. So, this last fiasco, I pushed the bottles back across the counter to the pharmacist who by now had blanched to a pasty white color (and she is not Caucasian). I told her respectfully but firmly to fill the prescription IN FULL as written by the doctor and not call me until it was done correctly. She meekly agreed as a tendril of sweat rolled off her forehead indicating to me a person that KNEW this was all wrong. I go back next week - yes, I am giving them a whole week to get their act together. Heaven help them if they screw this up again. What the Hell is the matter with these people all of a sudden? Like I said, it scares me. This keeps up and it's inevitable that someone soon is going to be seriously hurt or worse.