“How do we ensure our patient drops and loses ~80% of his pills and that he slices the absolute fuck out of his fingers in the process?”
They’re locking my mental health goals behind a fidgety Saw trap built from scissors and miserliness.
I’ve had boxes where there were several single pills snipped from their blister packs rattling around in them. These pills in particular are tiny, like you can’t even feel them in your mouth when you take them, but they expect me to be able to finesse one out of a single blister with at least 3 extremely sharp and piercing corners on it 😒
If you’re a pharmacist and you do this, please go ahead and take the pills yourself, you clearly need 'em more than I do, ya sick fuck.
Here in my country (at least public healthcare, which my mother and I use, and the private provider my grandfather uses), pharmacists give you enough full boxes to cover the month, even for controlled substances, even if that means giving a few extra pills.
As an example, I take 1 ½ Risperidone pills daily, which makes 45 pills a month. Boxes are 20 pills each, so they give me 3 boxes (60 pills). The leftovers helped me a couple of times I was sick or otherwise couldn’t get the refill on time.
There was only one time where they gave me two boxes and a blister (50 pills), but it was still a full blister.
I’ve had insurance only cover exactly 30 days once per calendar month. Not much of a problem until you’re trying to pick up your refill on the 31st.