My journey from stay-at-home mom to empty nester; and my journey with fibromyalgia and psoriatic arthritis.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Medication woes
I don't sleep well. I don't sleep at all without medication. I currently take two medications to help me sleep. Even then, I don't sleep well. I called my pharmacy for a refill on my Lunesta. They called back and said they couldn't fill it because my insurance wouldn't approve it. I was confused. Suddenly, my insurance will only allow me 15 pills for 25 days. I don't know why. So, the pharmacy said they would call my doctors office and have them get prior authorization for 30 pills for 30 days. Ok, great. I wait a couple days for the slow machine to work. I send my husband up to get the pills, and he is told that the prescription has been transferred to another pharmacy. WHAT!? Then I remember getting an email saying I had several prescriptions ready for refill. I though it was from the mail order pharmacy that my insurance uses. I look and discover its from an app that I downloaded to help me remember to take my medications. My mail order pharmacy is Caremark, this was from Carezone. Ok, so I won't check my emails while I'm in bed with a bad migraine any more! Pharmacist tells me that he can't just have them transfer the prescriptions back because that' illegal. He gives me the number for the carezone pharmacy. I call them and tell them to cancel my refills, and I don't want to do business with them. He tells me that there were only two on record with them, neither of which is my lunesta. Gggrrr. I call my doctors office to ask them to send a new script for the medication, at the recommendation of my pharmacist. My doctor is only in the office two days a week, so things move real slow there. They tell me that they can't send the prior authorization number again. Why the hell not?! They don't have a good answer for that. At this point, I have been without my med for a week and a half. I'm pissed. At this point, I'm taking 3x the dose of an over-the-counter sleep aid, along with wine coolers. I don't drink alcohol. I don't have much choice. I need to sleep. As of tomorrow, I will have been out of my lunesta for 2 weeks. I have no idea if I will have it any time soon. Yeah, this is my life.
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