Grrr! Has anyone else had trouble with their prescriptions?

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I almost just had a major mental meltdown over WalMart pharmacy and my insurance company! I take Lyrica for my fibromyalgia. I needed a new prescription recently and my doctor gave me one. I was sick when I had to pick it up, so my husband went for me. WalMart claimed that they had no record of my insurance! I've only been with them for years now but we've just switched over to the COBRA plan since my husband was laid off just before the new year. According to our insurance carrier (United HealthCare), I was insured from January 1st. But, on January 5, when my husband went to pick up my prescription, WalMart said they had no record of it. My husband said he'd take care of it and got me 10 of the 60 pills I should have gotten and paid cash for them... $28.68. Okay, so we THOUGHT the insurance was straightened out. Yesterday, I called WalMart to pick up the balance of that prescription, 50 pills. They once again said they had no record of my insurance. I haven't received a new card (yet) but did have all the numbers WalMart needed, so I gave them those numbers. They claimed that one of them should not have had any numbers in it at all; it should have been all letters. I told them that this was the number the insurance company gave me. They said they'd call my insurance company, then call me back. Hours went by... they never called. It was getting late, so I called WalMart back. They told me that everything was straightened out and my prescription was ready. I went and picked it up at 7:00 last night, paying an additional $30.72. When I got home, I saw that WalMart had only given me 10 more pills instead of 50! Okay, first of all, they charged me $28.68 for the FIRST 10 pills, then $30.72 for the SECOND 10 pills. What's up with that??? But, I should have received 50 pills, not 10. So, I called them this morning. Again, they're telling me they have no record of my insurance. I'm seeing red by this time! They also told me that what I paid last night was NOT an insurance co-pay. I'm like, HUH??? I told them that I was TOLD by them last night that the insurance was straightened out and I was to get the balance of my prescription, 50 pills, not 10. I told the gal to call the insurance company... again... to get this straightened out. She told me that WalMart pharmacy DOES NOT have insurance companies numbers!!! WHAT???????????? They're ALWAYS calling insurance companies!!! Finally, the actual pharmacist got on the line and said it was straightened out (once again) and that the new balance (40 pills) would be ready for me today and it would cost me $50.00, which is my co-pay for a FULL prescription of this medication! I said, no way! It was YOUR fault that I didn't get the balance last night. I'm NOT paying another $50.00! That's when I threw my phone at my husband and told him that he needed to handle this because I was ready to strangle someone! Okay... on hold again. Finally, the pharmacist told my husband that it would only cost me another $20.00 instead of $50.00. So, my one prescription of 60 pills, which should have cost me a total of $50.00, is ending up costing me $80.00!!! Can you believe this? I HOPE I don't do something rude when I go in to pick up the balance of my prescription today! Have you ever had something like this happen to you at WalMart or any other pharmacy? I want to hear your horror stories, please!