Santa Clara Drug

[cjsmith]

Who would ship off a bottle of an injectable medication and not include any needles? (Don't bother answering.)

It was weird enough last month, when I got a 30-day supply with 25 needles. They had to break open a ten-pack to avoid giving me 30 needles, so it was deliberate. I figured it wasn't worth the hassle to ask for the other five, especially at their shipping prices, so I reused five needles once each. That's not as awful as it sounds, but I'd still prefer not to do it. Now I guess I'm supposed to snort this liquid, or perhaps use it as a suppository. Or maybe they figure by now I have a permanent little hole bored in my skin and I can just pour it in. Twenty-five needles must be the industry standard for "number required for the average patient to bore a permanent little hole in the skin for all future medicine doses."

Thank goodness my cat is diabetic. (That's kind of a weird sentence, isn't it?) I'll use some of hers.

Sheesh.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they do charge for shipping - it's refrigerated, so they FedEx it. I suppose it's worth a quick phone call.

[edit: er, the medicine itself is refrigerated. They probably wouldn't FedEx needles by themselves. Or maybe they would. I have no clue!]

[composerjk.livejournal.com]

My pharmacy did send them separately, maybe even via FedEx. But, then, they also didn't charge extra for shipping of the meds. It was part of the medicine cost and not pulled out separately.

Anyways, it was just a suggestion from my past experience.

Thanks for the offer of the 0.3cc syringes. So far, all my drugs seem to have been at 1cc doses. And I have way too many 0.5cc ones from when I believe they sent the wrong size.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cats don't get 1cc doses very often. ;-) Last month I got 0.5cc syringes with my own meds, but at Duchess' dosages, I wouldn't be able to do it accurately with anything but these 0.3s. I think these syringes are the smallest ones made. They're certainly the smallest I've seen!