Since I last posted things have been pretty awful. I have been going through a medication change and need to go off one med before changing to something else. So it's been slow torture. Each change in dose brought on withdrawals. I'd feel like someone was poking me all over with hot needles, extremely tired and not well. This has been going on since the end of December. Last Wednesday I went change my patch ( how the medication is delivered) and couldn't find them. Turns out my PCA was picking up and threw out the bag they were in thinking it was empty. I was seeing the doctor on Thursday so figured we'd work it out. Well he wanted to prescribe a lower dose patch another withdrawal, and from there another lower dose and then go off the med altogether. So it would be three more times another almost two months of not feeling good. SO I said no, I want off now I am willing to go through what I have to and be over with it. He did prescribe something for the symptoms. That leads me to the next saga. So I dropped the scripts off at the pharmacy. Calvin went in to pick them up. I got it home and opened the bag and no med for the symptoms. I called the pharmacy and got told the script was for two patches and they come in fours. So now we wait until the next day, 24 hours of no meds. I wait until mid morning and call the pharmacy to see if it's ready. Now they tell me my insurance wants a prior authorization. I call the doctors office and I'm told they have faxed the paperwork to the insurance comapny. To wait a few hours and call the company. And also that my docotor isn't in on Fridays so they can't change what he prescribed. I call the insurance comapny at 3pm, they tell me they haven't gotten it. I tell them look because I talked to the doctor's office at 11 am and they had faxed it already. So after being on hold for a long time they finally come back and say yes they had it. They tell me they have given it a priority but it'll be at least 4 more hours before they take care of it. So now we're talking Saturday at the earliest. Now I've been going through this agnony since Wednesday evening. So I take what I have here for meds and get some sleep. Next morning, I wait until a reasonable hour and call once more. The lady I speak with puts me on hold to research the problem. She comes back and says I have the decision, they denied it. I ask why and she says well there are three other meds you would have had to have tried first. And I say well it's Saturday on a holiday weekend what am I supposed to do? I am hurting now! No answer and the call ends. So at this point I am starting to feel better and figure that I will tell the doctor not to bother prescribing anything else because by Tuesady I should be over the worst of it! I feel like the insurance company doesn't care one bit that I was going through hell, it's all about jumping through their hoops. There is something so wrong with our system!
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