That Was Humiliating...

[blas]

Enjoy my pain and the pure suck from the pharmacist.

A few weeks ago, I was really sick with a stomach flu that turned into....well....for lack of a better term, I was really, really backed up.

I went to the doctor and she had me nearly in tears when she told me I had to go get some.....suppositories.....*shudder*

My friend took me to the pharmacy at Wal-Mart, where I tried to quietly and discreetly swagger up to the counter.

The pharmacist obviously didn't realize that I wanted to go through this discreetly.

He actually yelled for the other pharmacist "Don't we sell suppositories over the counter here?"

I nearly died.

Then he was corrected, told that yes they do, but they keep them at the pharmacy.

Then, he proceeded to describe to me, again too loudly for my liking, "You're going to just insert these into the rectum, you'll want to make sure that you get it all the way up so that it doesn't fall out, and you're going to want to take this when you're going to be staying at home and not going anywhere for a while. These will work very, very quickly and you may be in the bathroom for quite a while."

I wanted to die. I wanted to die....right that moment.

I mean come on....the time that I needed to get cream for my lady parts after I had chryosurgery, the pharmacist leaned in very close and almost whispered how to take it, to be discreet and so that no one else needed to hear my business.

Definetly never going to Wal-Mart pharmacy again if that nitwit is working.

[RootedPhoenix]

Why is it that that pharmacist did not handle that discreetly?! GRRR!!
!!!!!!!!!

*offers hugs and herb tea*

[blas]

Maybe he thinks it's totally natural to shove things up your butt.

I'm well aware that doctors have seen and heard it all and are pretty indifferent, but at least my doctor realized that I was embarrassed and she tried to help me through it.

I also know that pharmacists are used to prescribing and filling the weirdest meds, and nothing really shocks them, either.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ouch. You aren't going to find many people who enjoy having their pooping problems broadcast for everybody in earshot to hear.

[blas]

Fortunately, the only other people in the pharmacy at the time were old people, and we all know they have their own digestive issues....but it was still humiliating nonetheless!

[PepperElf]

hope everything works out ok.


yes i had to go there


but yeah i hope you feel better soon.

[Bradester]

Wow, I thought that only happened in sitcoms!

Look on the bright side, someday he'll probably announce some old man's impotence to the Wal-Mart pharmacy and find himself pulled over the counter.

[McGoddess09]

That sounds like something I would do to my sister, in the privacy of our own home, with only her, my mom, and me. Not something a pharmacist should do.

[Diablo]

When I was in the navy, and when the ship was in the shipyard, often times there would be loud grinding or paint chipping going on near the smoke pad. So basically all the smokers would be standing around and the racket would be so loud you couldn't even think. Well me and my buddies, as soon as the racket stopped for a split second, one of us would blurt out something like..
"AND THE DOC SAID IT WAS GONORRHEA...."
and everyone would turn to the one person yelling it out. I don't know why but we thought it was fucking hilarious. I think its just what happens when you shove 4000 teenagers on a carrier....

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Maybe he thinks it's totally natural to shove things up your butt.

.

Well, you know, he's got his head up his, so he obviously isn't embarassed about that.

[WhiteRose]

yeah, bad move on his part...

maybe next time you should say to him really loudly (make sure the section is full of people, especially cute ladies) "So how's that impotence medicine working? I hear the doctor had to up your dose!"

[hecubus]

That pharmacist was definitely a complete dick for not being discreet. My dad is a retired pharmacist, and hearing about idiot pharmacists really gets my goat!

This thread also reminded me of something my dad told me about from when he was working in a pharmacy. He ran into so many stupid customers who had prescriptions for suppositories that he had to add the line, "Remove foil wrapping from suppository before inserting."

Yep, that's right. People were actually inserting the foil-wrapped suppositories , and then complaining that they didn't work.

[Iris Kojiro]

Yep, that's right. People were actually inserting the foil-wrapped suppositories , and then complaining that they didn't work.

I've heard some horror stories that involved people chewing up the suppositories and swallowing them.

As a rule, I always make sure to write in the directions that they must unwrap them and insert them rectally.

[Geek King]

You know, the way to stop that is to look the pharmacist in the eyes and say, "HIPPA." One of the things anyone dealing with the medical field fear.

[Cats]

There's actually a Halmark card that's in the 40's-50's style of a lady and pharmacist...the pharmacist hands her a bag and says "here's your stool softener", and the lady says, "can you say that a little louder? I don't think they heard you in the parking lot". I walk past it all the time at work.

I've heard some horror stories that involved people chewing up the suppositories and swallowing them.

"Hey Mort, do these suppositories come in other flavors?"
"Peter, are you eating those?!"
"No Mort, I'm shoving them up my butt! Of course I'm eating them!"

Sorry, I had to.


Sorry you were embararassed, but the evil in my just couldn't resist a little humor to brighten your day.