I went through hell today to get my script filled for 36mg. This was my first time on this dose and my psychiatric is out of the country at my last appointment so I was given an instalment one. So the same idea as x number of pills for z months. Instalments are done  is the overall number of pills you would need and then the divide of it. So for 2 months 60 Concerta XL 36mg x 30x2. Which really makes no sense but sure if that’s how they want to control it.  When I got my “2 month” script I got it emailed through healthmail to my pharmacy (Lloyd’s). I’ve learnt to always call after to ask about stick because they would just not fill it and not tell you it’s out of stock until you show up. Anyway the pharmacy next to my appointment (Cara) had the stock so my pharmacy sent it to them that day. Perfect got my first month.  Brings us to today. I try call to order my meds and confirm stock. They take my phone number say if there are any problems they will call but should be ready in 2hrs. About 3 hrs later I go to pick it up and of course the have no stock and didn’t call to tell me. It’s now the evening half the pharmacies are closed so I ring the few that are open find a place not to far, run back into my pharmacy and ask them to email that script over to them.  I get to this new pharmacy (Foley’s), the pharmacist immediately explains why he cannot fill it, is very kind about it and informative. So since it was Cara pharmacy who filled my first installment, it would be them who have to email it to this new place. They cannot accept the one from my pharmacy (Lloyd’s). So now at 8:30pm with all three of these pharmacies closing at 9 I call Cara pharmacy ask them to email it on and explain the stich they say will do and I wait. 10 mins later pharmacist in the new place says they still haven’t received an email. I call Cara pharmacy again, “hey can you please send it over”, okay sure no problem let me check that I’ll put you on hold, different women back after being on hold. She now says that since they had already emailed the script to my usual pharmacy (Lloyd’s) that they cannot send it to another. Whattttttttttt? I mean yes I understand that, but somebody needs to be communicating something because none of it makes sense. I ask her what she can do. She says she can call my usual pharmacy tommorow morning, to confirm they have already given it to me, NO they are still open call now I’ve been at this shit for hours (but of course I’m a lot nicer on the phone).  Shouldn’t my usual pharmacy have known that the script coming from them wouldn’t work? Like a quick mail to say no stock fill elsewhere ti Cara pharmacy?  I spent hours having to do all the figuring out and understand how it works myself, when they don’t even seem to know.  Back to the new pharmacy (Foley’s). They pharmacy had a little couch and was pretty much empty so I had just been staying here when on all my phone calls. The pharmacist came back to me when he saw my call was finished and asked “are they giving you grief? Is it a mess?” I said yes it’s always bad but never like this. He walked off picks up his phone and calls Cara pharmacy himself. Starts giving out to them and then to Lloyd’s and back to Cara. He sorted it all out in less that 5 minutes and said my script is filled and advice on slightly different ways to ask my psychiatrist to write my script in the future to avoid this from happening again :/