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So angry, I want to cry
Okay, admittedly, part of me being so mad is because either today or tomorrow will be the first day of AF, so I'm a little overly-emotional right now.
I get my bcp through a mail order pharmacy that is run through my insurance. Usually this works fine. This last month of pills was the last one I had, and I had run out of refills. I call the pharmacy, they say they will fax my Dr request for refill, and she will fax it back, and they will mail me more meds. I have done this before, and it has worked fine. I called to set this up 3 weeks before I needed the pills.
Fast forward two weeks, to last Friday, when I hadn't heard anything or recieved my meds. I call the pharmacy. At first, they can't find any record of my order. I get annoyed. Then, the girl on the phone says she does see that I called and made the request, and they did nothing. NOTHING!!! I leap into anger. The end of that convo was that they would get right on it, and expidite my order, at no extra cost to me.
I get a call just now from the pharmacy. First of all, the calls was one of those damn automated things, where I have to say stuff to proceed, yadda yadda yadda. It ended up forwarding me to a rep who didn't know why I was calling. I'm pissed at this point and just told him that they called me, and he needs to figure out why I was on the phone.
Turns out, as of the first of the year, they stopped carrying the meds I was on. However, that's not how he said it. He said "our preferred drug is x, and the non-preferred is y" (i'm on y). I told him I don't want the preferred drug, that I want y, knowing I will have to pay more for it, but I don't care. Then he says they don't have y. They why the heck even make it sound like he's giving me the option? So now I'm getting x, and they are overnighting it to me, at no cost to me (the shipping, I still pay for the meds).
Here's why I'm freaking a little, aside from their mess about not taking care of things and such: I was on a different bcp a while back, and it was terrible. I was so tired all of the time, and I gained a bunch of weight. I really liked brand y, and I felt like it was giving me my life back, and now I'm afraid that brand x is going to screw with me. But, I need the pills by Sunday (when I start a new pack), so I kind of felt like I had to just take the new brand. On the plus side, I have my annual visit with my doctor in May, so by then I will know if the new pills suck or if I can deal with them.
I can't wait till I'm 35 and can get my tubes tied, or some other form of permanent birth control.
Okay, that was really long. Sorry about that. I feel better after that. Thanks for reading.
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Ugh. That sucks. That's a big reason why I didn't go on BCP - I was too scared to see how my body would handle them. Here's hoping the new BCP is OK!
And I would've been ridiculously irritated if I had the convo that you had the with the pharmacy people. I HATE when companies are like that - you called me for a reason, and you can't tell me why!? Get it together people!
What a mess!
I hate automated systems, whether they call me or I call them.
Oh Meghann, this is why I hated bcp.
(((hugs))))
The weird thing about the BCP is that I've been on various brands constantly for 11 years, and before a year ago, there was only one brand that made me feel terrible. In fact, I was struggling with exhaustion, and it never occurred to me that it might be my bcp. I've never had strong reactions to any meds, so this I guess is just part of getting old. Boo.
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