I’m in for a night of shopping hell. My wife asked my MiL to go with us and then my BiL invited himself. We wanted to try to make it to four stores tonight but will be lucky to make it to two with them shopping with us. They are horrible to shop with. I usually don’t go when my wife goes with them but I committed to go before she invited the outlaws.
@FranC it's complicated. I sure wish I had thought about this before, man. I was getting my meds from CVS, consistently, so they used ONE generic I was completely used to (most pharmacies do this.) It was actually the cheapest one, that most people hate, but nope, not me.
Generics have a variance of 20% plus or minus (so that can be up to 40%, actually, depending on your luck.)
I got a 90 day supply of meds from my mail order pharmacy. They're a different generic, they do not WORK (normally I'd bed doing notes, so clearly) and like, they are now giving me HIVES, which is a known side effect of like, Adderall. This is also because they all use different freaking fillers and crap.
Believe me I am NOT happy and I will probably call my mail order pharmacy today. But Adderall.... that's a class III prescription drug and that means the Feds have very strict rules about it.
It also means they probably won't nicely and kindly replace it for me. I may have to go back to Ritalin (which does not work, but neither does this crap) and doesn't give me hives, but DOES give me the odd heart palpitation or two. My doc may be out of town already (my pdoc is firmly in play mode ATM) he doesn't even have an after hours covering person.
I guess I could try Dexedrine. It's not so different from Adderall but like whatever I do, SOMEONE is gonna accuse me of being of the persuasion of like, "Speed freak" which I am NOT,
I am VERKLEMPT. I finally got my dose where I need it and, and and… .Sigh.
Well I guess I can find out from the mail order pharmacy what they recommend I do. I need to be able to focus but I also need to not have HIVES and just ARGGGGGHHHHH.
Anna
Generics have a variance of 20% plus or minus (so that can be up to 40%, actually, depending on your luck.)
I got a 90 day supply of meds from my mail order pharmacy. They're a different generic, they do not WORK (normally I'd bed doing notes, so clearly) and like, they are now giving me HIVES, which is a known side effect of like, Adderall. This is also because they all use different freaking fillers and crap.
Believe me I am NOT happy and I will probably call my mail order pharmacy today. But Adderall.... that's a class III prescription drug and that means the Feds have very strict rules about it.
It also means they probably won't nicely and kindly replace it for me. I may have to go back to Ritalin (which does not work, but neither does this crap) and doesn't give me hives, but DOES give me the odd heart palpitation or two. My doc may be out of town already (my pdoc is firmly in play mode ATM) he doesn't even have an after hours covering person.
I guess I could try Dexedrine. It's not so different from Adderall but like whatever I do, SOMEONE is gonna accuse me of being of the persuasion of like, "Speed freak" which I am NOT,
I am VERKLEMPT. I finally got my dose where I need it and, and and… .Sigh.
Well I guess I can find out from the mail order pharmacy what they recommend I do. I need to be able to focus but I also need to not have HIVES and just ARGGGGGHHHHH.
Anna
Sitting at Mom & her sister's house.
Crab cakes, fried shrimp and some tomato and cheese concoction.
Crab cakes, fried shrimp and some tomato and cheese concoction.
Huh. That was super helpful (calling my pharmacy.) They can fix it, my doc is not around but he happened to give me a week's worth of Adderall because like, he was concerned I was going t to run out. So, they can do an override I guess. This means bathing and going to the pharmacy like NOW I am not enjoying this at all. I don't want to go but I guess I have to. Sigh.
Anna
Anna
There is no one that can get me to go Christmas shopping this close to Christmas. Nope,ain’t doing it
I test stuff and I want to do another test mix while the info is fresh in my mind. Sometimes one SFT leads to multiple SFTs or DFTs.
Oh I got going alright. I did not want to, but I did. I brought EVERYTHING with me, and anticipated I had a 50/50 shot. So yeah I got there and explained to the pharmacist and she was all like "Why are these scripts old?" and I was like, "Yeah, this is not going to go well at ALL." So then she was on the phone with my insurance company and apparently I need "NEW" scripts that say "medical exception" on them and the generic. I am afraid by the end I just lost my cool as they kept transferring me from department to department where I was like "So do you want me to die of hives?" and finally they decided to transfer me to a dude who like said I did not HAVE pharmacy benefits AT ALL and nothing was ever dispensed and I tried to get him to say that to pharmacy lady (who rightly I suppose) pointed out that she had seen my meds and etc. etc. That is when I just was like Prince on American Idol (he so did not want to be there) where he just dropped the mike and SAUNTERED off as Ryan what's his face tried to talk to him and he was just like, "Oh NO you paid me to sing, go (censored) yourself." I grabbed my stuff and left.
This was because I was gonna have a meltdown. Anyway, I sat in my car, panting kind of LOL. Then I called a few Mexican pharmacies which like, were like "OH MY GOD NO WE DO NOT SELL ADDERALL' like it was some scary THING when they do sell an amphetamine derivative as a diet pill that is like 16 times stronger AND has other crap in it. So then I was like, "I bet I could write "medical necessity" on these suckers and change the dates and just go to Walmart."
Only, I KNEW I couldn't even in my rage haze I mean even if I got AWAY with that, my doc would kill me, like, that's just not cool adulterating prescriptions. You don't. I mean, that is drug seeking behavior. Plus I knew if I went to Mexico in that state, I might return with Tramadol or SOMETHING bad, and like yes the whole thing was just MESSY.
I guess I am going to have To Keep Calm and Carry On but today is over. I'm not doing anything productive. I took another hive pill and a Benadryl but man.... You can't just NOT take stimulants I would have run over a kid or something. Maybe for the next few days I'll go back to Ritalin or whatever. I don't care. Ugh. At least I know what to tell the doc to do and I feel like I was mean to the pharmacist and like, she did spend a lot of time on it.
So yeah, when they started circular transferring me I just lost it (I was there like 1.5 hours) and now I am home. Many things could be accomplished but really, I just feel like mixing up some "Joy" with some other flavors at say random like grape, a smidge of eggnog, you know, and making the vilest juice ever and etc. Oy.
Sigh. Well it's only a few days I guess. This is how you learn .I can take extra benzos to work so I don't become an explosive mess (hopefully) for a day or two.
Learning sucks so HARD. I hate my doc. He gave me his cellphone once but I lost it. I guess he thinks I am "stable" I guess mostly I am hah.
Anna
I used to do a lot of my shopping Christmas Eve. It was great. Dead quiet. I got out of singing carols (my mom is mostly tone deaf but my dad's family side almost had a concert violinist-- she got married instead my grandmother was SO mad) and so all us kids learned instruments and we are good, nay GREAT singers and she's like not singing in tune and you want to smack her and feel sorry for her all a the same time. Now, with like giftcards, it's just A TON easier. This is one thing I will give the internet. LOL.
I was supposed to go to Julliard, but I became an alcoholic philosophy/English major at Swarthmore,. LOL no regrets.
Anna
Well, I did get out of shopping. I was taking a shower earlier and my wife noticed that there was a leak on the garage ceiling. We had a problem before with the floor drain in the shower in our master bathroom. Anyway, the plumbers putty I used must have been bad. So I’m in the middle of cutting a hole in the garage ceiling which I’ll have to put new insulation and a Sheetrock patch. I already went upstairs and fixed the drain. I used silicone this time instead of putty. I’m going to let the silicone dry and run the shower before I replace the Sheetrock.
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