Interesting website, a good resource for Diabetes.
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More pharmacy games
Sigh… Here’s another one of the formulary things….
Yesterday I needed a Depo Prevera shot. One shot is good for 12 weeks (84 days). Of course, nothing is covered at my local pharmacy unless it is written for 30 days. And if I go through the mail order pharmacy, it’s about $15.00 higher.
Weird? or What?
So I’ve got to track this down and fight it, because I got charged $53.xx instead of $30.00
And I’ve got to go back to my doctor and tell him to write the script for 30 days!
We ran into this a few years ago. I need to be on Deflucan every day for a month. Well, the doctor thought it only came packages for treating normal yeast infections and wrong the script for that.
The local pharmacy rejected the third refill and gave me all kinds of guff and stress. Finally the pharmacy actually thought for a second and said — if your doctor would write it for THIS form of Diflucan it would be covered AND it would have been cheaper.
Why didn’t they say that the first time … and of course, they wouldn’t refund anything for before.
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It worked…
Yesterday that is
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Importance of Sleep
Really good article and research results. Boy have I learned this lesson over the years.
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On the good side of the pharmacy service
I got my insulin yesterday. And I have to brag on Caremark on this.
I ordered the refill online this weekend, first day it became available. It was filled on Tuesday and FedExed on Tuesday evening.
Was dropped on my doorstep about 2:00 pm, and when I got home at 4:00 pm, not only was it still there, but the ice packs were still solid.
The really nice thing, is that I could see the status on the internet of the entire shipment from the time they accepted it, and until it arrived at my doorstep.
That really reduces the stress — though I have to admit the tracking of the shipping part of it is FedEx, not the pharmacy.
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Exercise prevents diabetes
If you aren’t diabetic yet, exercise can help to keep you from having it.
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Wrestling with Sleep Apnea
Okay, this one goes with my carpal tunnel syndrome ….
“Yeah, duh? Of course they do”.
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Exhausted…
I am absolutely exhausted and on my way to bed, even through it’s 6:18 pm. Hopefully I can sleep most of the night.
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Restless Leg Syndrome
Ken asked what Restless leg syndrome is.
It’s why they put eletrodes on your legs during a sleep study. A certain segment of the population kicks involuntary and it can be so bad — mine is — that it wakes you up.
I don’t think a lot of research has been done.
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Dealing with Pharmacy’s
I thought I had written something about this before, but this weblog entry on another site reminded me that I needed to say something about it again.
Unreasonable Pharmacy programs
Moral of the long story: make sure your doctor checks off the “Dispense as Written” instruction on the script.