Chemist Fussy Over Returns

[bainbrig]

Took a bag full of unwanted medicines to chemist for disposal.

Only to have ‘Trulicity’ rejected as it comes in preloaded hyperdermic syringes.

They wont take anything with ‘sharps’ - we have to phone the council!

What a palaver.

BB

[Old_Geezer]

What a pain. But never mind, you have a solution.
Maybe the council will charge you a fee per item to let you take them to the tip ;-)

[ummmm]

Our doctors have stopped doing automatic repeat prescriptions. You have to go to the chemist in person.

[bainbrig]

Geezer. Once empty and de-needled, I know where they’re heading...

[retrocop]

My local pharmacist gets snitty if you ask for hospital pharmacy drugs to be disposed by him but will ‘do it as a special favour’!! Had a hell of a job disposing of 56 Fragmin syringes in a sharps container. Issuing hospital didn’t want to know, as did local pharmacy or GP centre.

[margarettom]

The local council collects all Sharps boxes. You just phone them and they arrange a pick up time. Not really a problem.

[TonyV]

BB my wife takes trulicity we have 5 litre sharps box which council just need a call to collect which they are doing tomorrow, just leave box in a known collection point at outside our house.

[bednobs]

the service that prescribed the drug should be the people to dispose.

[TonyV]

BB you can get 5 litre sharps box on a scrip which will take trulicity.

[gness]

Perhaps times have changed or things are different where I live.
I injected my husband three times a week. When the sharps box was full he took it to a dialysis session and exchanged for a new one.
When he died the box was half full. The hospital refused to take it from me as he was no longer a patient.
No chemist would take it. The council suggested a place on our industrial estate. I drove around til I was dizzy and never found it.

I buried it under my new patio in the end.

[TonyV]

Bednobs the service that provides our sharps box is the NHS but local council takes them for incineration.

[TonyV]

Gness when I wanted last sharps box collection local council said it was not worth their time coming out for only one, got 3 for them now?

[johnny.5]

"Geezer. Once empty and de-needled, I know where they’re heading..."

another pointless exercise ?

[bainbrig]

johnny.S Not sure where you’re coming from (another pointless exercise ?)

Care to explain?

[johnny.5]

really ?

[douglas9401]

Don't needle him Johnny, doesn't suffer fools gladly. :-)

[Old_Geezer]

One needs a sharp wit here.

[gness]

Well all I got from anyone, Tony was....sorry.....can't take it. Bit mean of the Leicester Hospital to refuse it because they had killed him and he was no longer a patient.....just a corpse in their mortuary whose widow was going to cause bother. If they'd any sense they'd have just taken it rather than rattle me any more...... :-)
Anyway...this patio will never move so they're safe....x

[TonyV]

Gness sorry about your loss guess nobody will find your sharps box now then.

[gness]

Thanks, Tony.....and no.....it's gone forever!

[ubasses]

Having read this can't believe how lucky we were, when MIL died we gathered up 2 carrier bags of medication, asked her surgery what to do with them. Gave us the name of a chemist in the local town, they took them no problem. When Mr U finished his course of post op injections I took the sharps box back to he hospital and reception just said to leave it with her, she would deal with it.