Filling medicine prescriptions while traveling

ours are all done by mail order- I simply tell the company what address to send them to.

We use Walgreens, they are nearly everywhere. Any one can access your prescriptions.

pawatt wrote:
We use Walgreens, they are nearly everywhere. Any one can access your prescriptions.

X2 This is what we do. Never had a problem transferring from one place to another.

Narcotic or non narcotic?
Makes a difference
With insurance or pay for them yourself?

You also have Costco, WalMart, KMart, Sams Club, Fred Meyers, Krogers, and I'm sure others.

Bill

pawatt wrote:
We use Walgreens, they are nearly everywhere. Any one can access your prescriptions.

X2, I have used Walgreens in every state in the west.

Our insurance requires us to use mail order for maintenance meds. Get 90 day Rx with 4 refills - takes care of the year. Have them sent either to our mail forwarding address (get an email telling me they are in) or have them sent to a temporary address when we are staying longer in one location. Use Walgreens for short-term meds

We have used Walgreens in 40 states over the past 11 years, we also get our prescriptions once a year for 90 days with 3 refills, however if you require heavy duty painkillers, this doesn't work. Those must be filled within the state they are written, also multiple refills and long term prescriptions without a doctor's visit are not available any more either.

Walmart works. Bigger parking lots than Walgreen, and I believe cheaper.

It's a challenge. I have 2 meds which are controlled substances which require a paper prescription for every refill. On top of that, I have to get blood drawn once a month and get the result faxed to my Dr. Half of the time, the lab says they faxed it and my Dr says he didn't get it requiring me to intervene and get it done. Enough of my problems. I used to use a local super market pharmacy which doesn't exist in the south so now I've switched to Walgreens because, at least, they seem to be everywhere. But I still think the account has to be switched to the pharmacy you are using even though you would think they would be linked by computer. Haven't had a chance yet to test Walgreens away. Really it's not a huge problem. It's just not fast because they always have to call the previous pharmacy.