That poor pharmacist...

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We have a local pharmacist... who has been tortured been consulted by us on several occasions... usually whilst ds (ASD/ADHD) is absolutley hysterical unhappy about being there.. (dont even ask about the time we found a verucca!)

Anyway i went to pick up ds's medication today.. ds is at his dads.. so there was none of the bribing mediating that we normally have to do in order to get him through the door...

Hand in the script... medication is handed over... i happen to glance in the bag and ITS A DIFFERENT BOX - so i stand there routed to the spot staring at this medication that is different..... and in my head a thousand things go through my mind like "Bugger he will know/what if it tastes different/oh god please no/why me?" etc....... the pharmacist notices my horror confusion and checks all is ok....... cue me explaining that it took me 6 months to be at the stage where medication is just a usual part of the day and now its been CHANGED....... (after opening the box the bottle is also a different colour with a totally different label)

He humored reassured me that it tasted the same etc and i walked out of the shop.

Now im home...... and wondering when on earth I became as sensitive to change as DS lol...

Im hoping others can relate and its not just that this time i have well and truly fallen off the path lol

Oh that made me laugh but so true! I think most parents with DC with ASD go through this several times a day...

Oh gosh the park is busier than normal, can she cope? Or should we keep driving and go further 5 miles and pray that one is quiet!

Etc, etc, etc

On a practical level,can you wash out the old bottle and decant the new medicine into it?

The colossal irony is that despite the ultra flexibility, and the ability to put yourself right at the end of the priority list, necessary to bringing up a child with asd, it's so easy for the wider world to view you as rigid and strange! I feel this on a daily basis... But try to smile about it.

Ooooh thats a brilliant idea!!! :D thanks

I would also reuse the old bottle .
I spend so much time with DS that I get the arrrgggg change feeling before he notices something is different, and anything in the super market with new and improved on the label makes me shudder

DS was once dispensed a different brand of his meds - the box/bottle doesn't matter in his case as he never sees them, but the medication itself was a different colour!!
We now stick to the same pharmacy who never have any problem with us requesting the brand we prefer!! It's one of those meds where there is some suggestion that the same brand should always be used (not all paeds/pharmacists agree) but it helps our case!!

Oh, those "oh, shit" moments are so familiar to us. Oh shit! Someone's walking towards us that DS1 can't tolerate. Oh shit! The surgery is closed for training, which means that we'll have to go in with DS2 to pick up the prescriptions, which means that we'll not be able to simply walk past again for the next 3 months. Oh shit! Sainsburys is out of 9-bars. Oh shit! We can't drive our usual way home because the road's closed. Oh shit! It's starting to rain and I need to walk DS1 from A to B NOW....

At least there's no generic Atomoxetine. Yet! The various doses are colour coded and DS1 knows the numbers associated with each and every colour combination!