When you are moving to another city and/or state, or when you are just traveling, you may be concerned about how to get more of your medicines that you need. Logically, if your insurance and doctor allow it, get at least a month's worth of all of your prescription medicines in advance. If you cannot do that, here is how you can migrate your prescription medications to the nearest local pharmacy wherever you are.

Before You Leave, Transfer Prescriptions to a National Chain

If you do not already get your prescriptions from a national pharmacy chain, transfer your prescriptions to this type of store right before you leave town. Since it will take some time to load your prescriptions into the chain pharmacy's database, you will want to give yourself enough time between the time you pack up and leave and the time you arrive at your destination for the chain pharmacy to get you into their system. A week to two weeks is a good rule of thumb, because they can enter you and all of the medicines you take, plus confirm with your doctors that these are the medicines you take. (Doctors are not always available to take calls, so the chain pharmacy might have to play phone tag until they can confirm your prescriptions. That is why you need the extra time to do this.)

Check with the Chain Pharmacy's Local Store at Your Destination

Once you reach your destination, check with the chain pharmacy's local store. They should be able to pull up your information in their database, since most chain pharmacies work off of a universal system that allows them to access your personal and medical information from anywhere in the States. If the information is not available to the local store at your destination, they can still call the store where your prescriptions were before and verify it that way. (You cannot do that if you did not already transfer your prescriptions to your chosen chain pharmacy.)

If You Are Traveling and Constantly on the Road

If you are not headed one direction and staying put for some time, you can continue to "forward" your medication and information if you need to. This is quite common for truckers and snow birds (retirees who travel all over the Southern half of the U.S. when the Northern half is frozen and covered in snow). As a customer of a national chain pharmacy, your local pharmacy is always the nearest store wherever you end up, and you can ask those stores to forward your refill requests to the next destination city. For more information, tlak to a professional like Colby Pharmacy.