Pharmacies are weird when it comes to stocking stuff.
There are medications that pharmacies just don’t stock cause they are too expensive or have too short a shelf life to have sitting around.
So pharmacies are usually able to order meds and get them delivered in 1-2 days, regardless of their “normal” stock.
For example, I worked briefly in the cash office at a grocery store and say daily sales, and the pharmacy would have days where they would “sell” $500k of medications versus their normal day of like $800.
Turns out it was a cancer medication that cost like 500k a dose.
Clearly the pharmacy never had that laying around and special ordered it each time…
Yeah, my pharmacy didn’t stock doxepin when my doctor trialed it for insomnia, and that’s just a normal antidepressant. It’s not one of the ones commonly prescribed, so there’d be no sense in stocking it just to gather dust.
Pharmacies are weird when it comes to stocking stuff.
There are medications that pharmacies just don’t stock cause they are too expensive or have too short a shelf life to have sitting around.
So pharmacies are usually able to order meds and get them delivered in 1-2 days, regardless of their “normal” stock.
For example, I worked briefly in the cash office at a grocery store and say daily sales, and the pharmacy would have days where they would “sell” $500k of medications versus their normal day of like $800.
Turns out it was a cancer medication that cost like 500k a dose.
Clearly the pharmacy never had that laying around and special ordered it each time…
Yeah, my pharmacy didn’t stock doxepin when my doctor trialed it for insomnia, and that’s just a normal antidepressant. It’s not one of the ones commonly prescribed, so there’d be no sense in stocking it just to gather dust.