especially bad. Yesterday, I was in bed for nearly 24 hours straight. Today, I feel like crap, and just apologized to my husband for being an uncivil bear to him.
I'm going to have a hard talk with my rheumatologist when I see him in two weeks. I was down with some kind of bug during my last appointment. Called to cancel a day in advance, like they want. Asked to have my meds called in to the pharmacy. Assured me they would be. Next day? No meds. I called the pharmacy to have them contact the doc. Upshot -- I've been an entire month without my meds. Cold snap and no meds? I'm not worth being around! If this is going to be the way it is with this doc, I'm going to have to find another one who's not so "come in and get your script or else"... especially when the next available appt is a month in the future. Can you tell I'm more than a little p'o'ed about having to do this whole month without meds? And these aren't even opioids! In other words, there's no excuse as far as I'm concerned.
I'm also planning on informing my primary care doc about the situation I've been through. Maybe she'll be a backup for the script. I end up having to see her every 3 months, too.
I swear, this whole meds thing is a racket anymore. You can't have more than 3 months worth of script for anything, and then you have to come in and get the scripts renewed. So, not only do you have to have the money for the scripts, but every three months you have to copay a doc in order to get the scripts. What makes it worse is I have to travel to each one of these docs 45 minutes one way -- one to the north of me, and one to the south of me. At my age, the drive, itself, is getting harder and harder to do. At least with my pain meds, I can do a televisit for one of the office visits. The rheumatologist isn't that "up to date"... most of the time, I can't even pay my copay because their computer isn't working, and their website doesn't have any way to pay online.
Like I said, I'm in pretty bad shape right now.. and it's probably showing in my irate rambling, too. Sorry... my sympathies to your hubby. My Grandmother, btw, came over from Ireland as a child. When she married, she married an American Indian. When I get mad, everyone just gets out of my way! (LOL)
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