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New drug for weight loss
Rimonabant Helps for Smoking Cessation, Weight Loss
Interesting — you may need to register to read this. Wonder what hideous side effect it will have.
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This is something I need to remember next week
Next week I see the sleep specialist, do a stress test and see a cardiologist and see an endo for the first time.
My biggest, overriding question, is this:
If you had the medical history I had, is there anything else you would be doing that I am not.
I’m wondering if we need to increase the Zocor, right now.
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Losing Weight
I’ve lost weight with just about everything you’ve heard of.
I’ve lost weight with Weight Watchers, I’ve lost weight with Jenny Craig, I’ve lost weight with hypnosis.
What I have been unable to do, is keep the weight off. The minute something takes my attention off of losing weight, or keeping the weight off, I gain it all back.
I even lost 100 pounds once. That was with hypnosis, and it was easy. But then a life event came around (okay, a couple), took my focus off of losing weight, back it was on.
Even this year, I’ve managed to lose some weight — then my husband broke his hip, and back the weight came.
The sad part, is that I usually get MORE weight, not just what I lost.
It also gets harder to lose the weight each time.
And that is why I think it is a disease. I don’t think other people have to think about losing weight all day, every day — or keeping weight off, all day every day.
But then maybe they do.
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Medco Saga — or is it Zyrtec Saga
FYI: Zyrtec is the only drug I’ve had to deal with when it comes to managed care.
All the other scripts — insulin, Zocor, Altace, test strips etc. have not been a problem. They haven’t even bulked on the insulin even though they have a cheaper one in their formulary. But I do have a documented allergy to the formulary insulin.
Anyway, they shipped on Friday, after predicting a ship date of Monday. So it is on its way.
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Zyrtec Redux
Good news!
Medco received my script. They are processing it.
I was worried because the post office box was absolutely stuffed and I wasn’t sure it was going to get picked up. I kept thinking I should have taken it inside.
And since I mailed it yesterday at 5:00, this isn’t bad.
They claim they will ship on the 10th.
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More Zyrtec fun
It’s a VERY good thing I knew the allergy medication game was coming. Here’s the latest in the saga…
The doctor’s office didn’t get the precertification back quick enough for Medco. On Feb 26, Medco sent the script back to me. The precertification came through on Feb 27.
So now I have to wait until the script is returned to me, and then send it back to Medco to be filled. So far, we’re talking about the following:
I went to the doctor on February 16, and got the prescriptions.
I dropped them off at the mailbox on the way home — but it was a postal holiday so it didn’t get mailed until February 17th.The rest of the order arrived on February 27th — a 10 day turn around.
SO, if the script arrives in the mail today, I’m looking at March 12 to get my Zyrtec.
NEVER NEVER put off filling medications. In fact, I’d be totally screwed (though I didn’t let onto this), if I had not built up a 60 day cushion on my meds.
ALWAYS make sure you have a full month’s supply at all time otherwise you’ll have to pay a 30 day copay rather than a 90.