Withdraw offer

[Gwennie123]

Due to all the responses to my offer of Ibrance I am withdrawing it. Sorry if I offended anyone.

[SoCalLady]

Gwennie123, I'm sure you didn't offend anyone. You were offering for free a $15,000/mo drug from the heart.

[MacroMom]

I wouldn't want to throw away a drug that's more expensive than diamonds either! When I was on Ibrance I got my first month's dosage "free" when my oncologist had a sample bottle and my insurance hadn't yet approved it. I returned the favor the last month when Ibrance was no longer working and I'd already gotten my supply. I'm sure she found another patient to appreciate it.

[SusieIM]

Am sure you didn't offend anyone

[Hidden]

I have mine to my oncologist when I received it and it was the wrong dosage. He gave it to the pharmacy.

[Hidden]

No worries! You didn't offend me. I know you meant well🙂❤️

[Barbteeth]

I had a pack of 125 Ibrance and took them to the pharmacy

They disposed of them!!! Criminal imo

You meant well and were being kind and thoughtful

Barb xx

[hdhonda]

Gwennie, You didn't offend anyone. Hope all is good with you. Blessings Hannah

[Charlie_99]

You are obviously thoughtful and caring. I wouldn’t want such expensive medicine that is difficult to obtain to be wasted either. I had an extra bottle I didn’t use because they lowered my dosage and gave to my mother-in-law because it took so long to get hers. Any illegal thing should only be related with intent to harm. Sad, very sad.

[Hidden in reply to Charlie_99]

Chemo drugs are strong stuff. They cannot allow people to just give to one another regardless of whether one does it with a good heart, especially if they have been opened. Although it seems wrong to us, I doubt very much that the price the insurance pays for these drugs is even close to what it actually costs the pharmaceuticals company (Pfizer) that makes Ibrance.

They have these laws in place to protect us, as opposed (I think) to trying to get more money.

Certain states do allow UNOPENED bottles of certain drugs to be donated. But it has to be at a certain place and paperwork is involved and I think in US there are only like five states that have these donation places.

The main thing is not to flush them in toilet, bc it can get into the water.

[Hidden]

You didn't offend anyone just wanted you to know it is illegal here in US so the posting on the board. They have places coming up on April 25, 2019 where you can go to give them unused or even opened medication.

I just learned of it via another forum board where the moderators kicked people off (after warning them not to do it on the board). But usually a pharmacy or your oncologist will take them. Plus, your name would be on the label.

Believe me, I am sure although it costs insurance big bucks for the cost of these meds, the reality of what they cost the pharmaceuticals to make, is a big difference, I am assuming.

I had a full unopened bottle of Ibrance which my onco took back months after I stopped using it and was put on another drug.

[Hidden]

I got 90 10 mg. per month now from the pain specialist. She calls it to my small family-owned father and son pharmacy where I get all my prescriptions filled. So my pain specialist sends it to them.

I went about three weeks ago and picked up about six rxs, including the percocet. They were all in one bag.

I came home and was tired and just tossed the bag (with several bottles of my meds) into the cabinet. Less than 10 minutes later the pharmacist called me and I could tell he was nervous.

The father said he accidentally gave me 120 instead of 90 and that he had put 30 of them into my bottle and then had to open a new batch and mistakenly put in 90. He said can my son (also a pharmacist) please come and take the 30 back.

So I said What...sure...I said I just glanced to make sure I had the right meds and all the meds. It was the same exact size bottle that I had gotten the last time and even on the label it said 90 pills but he gave me 120. I would not have realized it until a week or two later when I realized it seemed like more than I should have had.

Legally, I did not have to give them back. I could have said, no, you only gave me 90 (and that it what it said on the label) or No, I don't want to give them back.

So I said okay, but just so that you know, I have not even opened the bottle (and percocets do not have a label on top of them once you screw off the top.

His son came to my apt. and in front of me counted 30 out. He used his hands to count the ones he took out (which was odd to me) but I let him know, I never even touched them.

He said no, that was our fault, not yours. But they would have gotten in alot of trouble bc its an opiate and they have to account for every single pill of Percocet and if they were missing 30, they could get in trouble. I was fine. I use them for everything and I am not going to let them get in trouble. But the son said, we cannot give these to anybody else.

He said we have to put them to the side but we have to account to the govt. that we have the 30 and a reason why they are not able to give to another patient.

He should NOT have been using his hands but he only used them on the ones he was taking back. They have to account for every single pill so he told me they could not pass on to another patient, but now they can account for them to the govt and that can show the 30 and that they were unusable. They could have accidentally fell on the floor.

Very strict rules here in US. I am sure the father panicked once he realized what happened but I have been going there for years. And I would not have guessed bc it was not like he made the typo on the bottle.