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I have for many years used this medication and found it the adequate treatment for my hypertension. Its accessibility over the past few years has been increasingly and aggravatingly sketchy..sometimes the pharmacy has it in stock; more often it does not and has to order making it necessary to order way ahead of need. This week another disregard for patients happened to me. I ordered my teveten a week in advance. Called today to see if it were ready as I was now out of pills! The pharmacist had to tell me that Abbott was no longer making the pill and neither they nor affliates of Walgreens could get any. It was their mistake in not telling me earlier this was the case although they evidently had faxed my cardiologist and had gotten no answer; therefore no order for a replacement. The pha...

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i HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED TEVETEN FOR MAYBE 20 YEARS AND BELIEVE IT IS THE PROPER HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION FOR ME AS DO MY SPECIALISTS. HOWEVER IN RECENT YEARS THE ACCESSIBILITY HAS BEEN SO LIMITED AND IT IS SO INCONSISTENTLY DELIVERED TO MY PHARMACY (WALGREEN'S IN SAN RAFAEL) THAT TODAY I AM WITHOUT MY EVENING DOSAGE. MY PRESCRIPTION WAS PROMISED TO ME ON JUNE 20 NOW THEY SAY THERE ARE NO SOURCES IN THE WHOLE BAY AREA WITH TEVETEN. THIS IS A DRUG WITH NO GENERIC AND NOT ON THE FORMULARY SO IT HAS A HIGH PRICE TAG. I HAVE WILLINGLY PAID THAT BUT THE ANXIETY OF GETTING IT IS "GETTING TO" ME! WRITING ON JUNE 23 HAVING USED UP ALL MY EMERGENCY STASH. i HAVE SENT MESSAGES TO THE DOCTOR AND TO ABBOTT LABS...THEIR PHONE NUMBER ADVERTISED FOR CONTACT NEVER ANSWERS BTW. PHARMACY ...

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