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  • More Medco Weirdness

    I switched from Zocor and Zetia to Vytorin (yes, I feel like a drug commercial). I was told by Medco that it would be a $100.00 copay since it was nonformulary. Formulary copays are $62.50, for it wasn’t much of a savings, so I was torn.


    I got the “bill” off the internet today and they charged non-formulary price, so now I’m getting two drugs for the price of one formulary copay ($62.50) — NOT bad. But I wonder why they didn’t tell me that. Weird….


    And the depo arrived today — at least it’s on the doorstep — husband will have to bring it in. Apparenlty the generic isn’t available yet, but it was $42.00 instead of $56 which is what the regular pharmacy charges. Since it is cheaper than a copay, I pay for the cost.

  • More on my recent test results

    Reflecting on these test results, these are the first good results I’ve had in years, especially when it comes to cholesterol levels. My blood sugar was a bit high but we’d had a stressful night the night before.
    And my blood sugar levels themselves have been VERY good lately.
    So I’m definitely on a good path that way.


    Now if I could just sleep

  • Animas Good News!

    After gathering serial number and rev number from the pump, they are shipping a new pump for Monday. She kindly explained, and I agreed, that the pump was still functioning, I just have to remember it isn’t water tight anymore.

    Whew!

  • More on Lunesta

    December 17, 2004

  • Medpundit comments on Lunesta

    Medpundit

    Claire de Lune: The FDA has just approved a new sleeping pill, called Lunesta:

  • Pump “problem”

    Well, I’m about to see what kind of service I get from Animas. I was changing my batteries tonight, the pump tipped over and the corner of the battery door chipped off, which I think means the pump isn’t water tight any more….

    I did call this evening — 12:43 am there time, and they said leave a message if it is urgent, and since the pump is still functioning it doesn’t seem urgent.

    I’ll call first thing in the morning, and remember to keep my pump dry!

  • Test results

    This is cool — my primary care physician has a telephone line that you can call and get and leave messages. I had several medical tests done — fluids were obtained Saturday and he left my test results on the system today.

    News was good. Creatin was 0.9, thyroid was normal and albumin < 5.0 123, good was 47, ldl was 61. He said chrostreol was "awesome".

    Looks like what we are doing is right.

  • Testing Comments

    Just testing to see if I accept comments from TypeKey users.

  • Sleep

    I finally slept all night last night. And could go asleep. Sure wish I could fix the sleep problems permanently. I know I’m going to concentrate on that over the break.

  • I’ll have to give this a try….

    December 16, 2004