I am out of my rescue inhaler, Albuterol, and I’m gasping for breath. I’ve been sipping coffee (I read that that helps), but I don’t know that I can sustain this until tomorrow. My regular pharmacy is closed, as is my physician’s office.
What to do? I can’t call my doctor to have my script transferred to a different pharmacy.
If your pharmacy is part of a chain, any branch should be able to fill it. I once flew to California and forgot a med, but a branch of my pharmacy there filled it.
Anyway, find a 24-hour branch of your pharmacy. Call them, and ask them to fill it.
If that doesn’t work, start calling urgent care clinics and ask if any of them stock the inhalers and can fix you up with one if you go in.
As a last resort, go to an ER.
Maybe an appointment at an urgent care (not emergency room) clinic? Then they could write a prescription to a pharmacy that is open with enough medicine to tie you over until your regular doctor/pharmacy can refill.
Ypu may have teledoc through your insurance. They can call in a script.
Rivkah’s order of operations is good advice. Albuterol isn’t a controlled substance and people running out of meds on a holiday weekend isn’t exactly uncommon.
In the Teledoc virtual waiting room as we “speak,” thank you for the advice.
Get a ‘primatine’ mist inhaler, otc.
It’ll help. Not perfect tho’.
As others have said, contact a local hospital. They will have information about what pharmacies are open on holidays and after normal business hours. And if there are none, the hospital will have its own pharmacy.
Yeah, best answer. Really
Hey, once you get all fixed up, please come back and let us know that you are OK.
I hope the OP is OK. FWIW, you can always get an albuterol treatment–often with a nebulizer–at an urgent care clinic and/or ER. If you’re gasping for breath, I would head there.
Something similar happened to me regarding a script refill this past holiday. I was recently put on a blood thinner by my cardiologist, and realized too late that I had no pills left on December 24th. I rushed to my normal pharmacy at 1:30 p.m. and found that they had closed early at 1:00 p.m., and wouldn’t reopen until December 26th. Compounding the issue was the fact that I was going to be out of town until December 28th.
So I drove over to another pharmacy that was still open with my empty pill bottle and explained the situation to the pharmacist. I thought it would be a big hassle trying to get the script filled at the other pharmacy, but instead he just asked how many pills I needed. I said 3-4 pills would be sufficient. He took his master pill bottle and carefully counted out 4 pills, poured them into my original pill bottle, and wished me a happy holiday. No charge. 
Thank you for the well-wishes, I am very much alive and well (knock on wood) and a replacement inhaler is in my pocket.