My Rhuemy just took me off of Enbrel yesterday and wouldn’t you know it, my shipment couldn’t be stopped! It came in this morning! Please let me know what I should do. I would really like to help someone in need because I know how expensive it is. I don’t know if there are legal issues in doing this.
Thanks for your information in advance.
I live in Kingsport, Tn.
That's a really great idea but, like you, I don't know whether the Feds would show up if you tried to hand over the drugs! You may think about donating them to a free clinic if there's one near you (assuming that's legal). I wonder if your rheumatologist would trade them for doses of whatever biologic you may start next.
50 ml????? I may have a home
Call your Rhum and ask…
Hi tntlamb, just let me know. I checked with my Rhuemy and they said they would just add it to “their” supply but I would rather give it to someone that needs it, ya know?
tntlamb said:
50 ml??? I may have a home
Having trouble getting back to you.?
Golfette said:
Hi tntlamb, just let me know. I checked with my Rhuemy and they said they would just add it to “their” supply but I would rather give it to someone that needs it, ya know?
tntlamb said:50 ml??? I may have a home
I got your messages..............
I gave mine to a free clinic near my home. It is legal for them to take it from you. Mine was unopened and they know me as a nurse in the community. My pharmacy and Rheumy wouldn't take it. I am not sure but I think any legal issues come when they dispense it. My opthalamologist when I was a young woman had told me to be seen by an opthalamologist immediately if I got something in my eye. I only have one functioning eye. Sure enough riding around in a convertible one night a rock or cinder landed in my eye. Hurt awful! I went to the ER. They removed the boulder which was stuck inside my lid and prescribed some medication. It wasn't until after i filled them at the pharmacy that i realized it was the wrong medicine for me. I saw my Opthalamologist in a few days and handed him the unopened bottles. He examined my eye and gave me the proper meds. I offered him the ones I had filled. He thanked me and peeled every bit of paper off the bottles and said something about removing all evidence so he could use them at his "clinic day". The entire time he was in practice he had one day a month a "clinic day" to serve the poor in Vermont. I believe it is the re-issuing of a med that gets sticky. But in the back hills of Vermont we have elderly people without insurance and dire medical needs. I think in this case (and when sending supplies to places like Haiti) there are some ways around the rules. So in my long winded reply it is they that might get into trouble in re-issuing it but probably not. You can't get in trouble by trying to help.
Thank you so much Michael and thank God for your giving heart. ;-). Hope you are well and improving every day.
michael in vermont said:
I gave mine to a free clinic near my home. It is legal for them to take it from you. Mine was unopened and they know me as a nurse in the community. My pharmacy and Rheumy wouldn’t take it. I am not sure but I think any legal issues come when they dispense it. My opthalamologist when I was a young woman had told me to be seen by an opthalamologist immediately if I got something in my eye. I only have one functioning eye. Sure enough riding around in a convertible one night a rock or cinder landed in my eye. Hurt awful! I went to the ER. They removed the boulder which was stuck inside my lid and prescribed some medication. It wasn’t until after i filled them at the pharmacy that i realized it was the wrong medicine for me. I saw my Opthalamologist in a few days and handed him the unopened bottles. He examined my eye and gave me the proper meds. I offered him the ones I had filled. He thanked me and peeled every bit of paper off the bottles and said something about removing all evidence so he could use them at his “clinic day”. The entire time he was in practice he had one day a month a “clinic day” to serve the poor in Vermont. I believe it is the re-issuing of a med that gets sticky. But in the back hills of Vermont we have elderly people without insurance and dire medical needs. I think in this case (and when sending supplies to places like Haiti) there are some ways around the rules. So in my long winded reply it is they that might get into trouble in re-issuing it but probably not. You can’t get in trouble by trying to help.