0316 hours and I'm awake

Not too often insomnia takes me to this hour. But pain can interrupt sleep even if you take sleep meds. The funny thing is like the cartoon the born looser I just can't win. I drop my pain perscrtion early as the doctor post dates it. Then the day comes around and low and behold they are out of them. I'm sorry ... Really you have had that script for a week and you ran out ? You knew you had to order enough even if that is the only one that gets filled? It not like it snuck up on you. Poor inventory mangagement. But who suffers? Me gosh darn it. Can bloody sleep when it feels like a screw driver been jammed into hip and both ankles feel like ... Like I jumped off a building and landed on my feet. Achey crappy burning cramping etc. who can sleep through this? I have taken too much ibuprofen ( like 1600 mg and not at once ) but enough to figure out that even if I upended the bottle into my gullet it likely wouldn't help. I wish there was a way to balance the fine line between chronic pain patient and junkie. I feel like if I throw a tantrum then that will only make it worse. But now I am jammed between a rock and shard place they promised it midday I commute 1-1/2 hours to from work i work same hours as pharmacy so yes my lunch falls at that time but it's too far ... Before work too early after work closed next day and after that ... Traveling to stupid training class ::: seminar to make raroad employees play nice with each other ... A whole different venting system. Or TA DA a sick day burned for a trip to pharmacy... really ? Oh and I work customer service Did I mention I can be mean as a rattlesnake when in pain ... Won't stand for stupidity. And add sleep deprivation ... Oh lord put on your seat belt!

Sounds like a new pharmacy is in order! I agree with poor management as I just said that exact thing to the manager at a local Dollar general, no matter what I run in for and it's often being the only store within a mile, they're out! When in the course of a week they have not had bread one day, no sugar going on 3 days, not one single brand of excederin, and no cigarettes of the brand my sil smokes and it's a Florida made brand, not that I care but we just end up going to a gas station paying more! Lol

If you are a manager and constantly and consistently running out of certain items are you not paying attention to your inventory? Your customers needs? Is it sitting in the stockroom not getting put out? Or do you just not care? Maybe it's time the regional director needs to shake up the staff and find some folks who actually are in the customer service business for more than a paycheck.

The only excuse a pharmacy would have is if they're dispensing over their allowance for that med therefore they are going to have at least one patient ending up short every month and it's still bad business practice to take on more patients for a med you already are dispensing the limit of out of that store.

Sorry for your troubles but thanks for the opportunity to rant over a pet peeve!!