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next_to_normal) wrote2010-05-19 05:16 pm
next_to_normal) wrote2010-05-19 05:16 pm
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I can haz drugs nao?
One of my classes this summer is on health care policy, and I hope it answers this question: "Why are insurance companies so dumb?"
To recap, I've been on Remicade since I went to the hospital in January. At first, it seemed like a miracle drug, because within two days of the infusion, I felt great and it was like I'd never been sick. The schedule is such that I started out going back after two weeks, then after four, and then it's supposed to be every eight weeks until further notice. When I went back after two weeks, everything was great. No symptoms, feeling like a regular human being again. The four-week stretch was a bit of a problem. I made it to three before I started having symptoms again. But again, as soon as I got the treatment, I was back to normal within a couple days.
The eight-week thing has thus far been impossible. I made it four weeks last time, and had to go in early because there was no way I would last another whole month. That time it took over a week before I bounced back, and I started having symptoms again four weeks after that. I still have another week and a half until my next appointment, and I've been trying to get it moved up so that I'm not in pain until next Friday, but the insurance company is dragging its feet getting my prescription refilled. (I have to go through a specialty pharmacy and get prior approval because it's so expensive.)
Don't they realize this is exactly how I ended up going to the hospital in the first place? I was supposed to start on this medicine, but because the insurance took their good old time getting it approved, two weeks later I still had no medicine and was puking my guts up pretty much every day. I would not like to repeat that experience, so please to be giving me drugs now, k?
In other news, I went over a friend's house to watch Glee last night. It was my first time, so, people who watch it - is it always like that? Is that a typical episode? Because I remain unimpressed and can't figure out why it's such a sensation (except, of course, that it's got big flashy musical numbers, but WTF, watch an ACTUAL musical, why don't you?). Afterward, my friend said to me, "You want to watch the whole thing now, don't you?" and I was like, "Um, maybe if NPH were in every episode..." I remain puzzled as to how this happened. I mean, this is the friend who introduced me to Buffy, Angel, and Veronica Mars. She MUST have good taste. And yet, not only did we watch Glee, she also subjected me to Cougar Town. I don't understand.
To recap, I've been on Remicade since I went to the hospital in January. At first, it seemed like a miracle drug, because within two days of the infusion, I felt great and it was like I'd never been sick. The schedule is such that I started out going back after two weeks, then after four, and then it's supposed to be every eight weeks until further notice. When I went back after two weeks, everything was great. No symptoms, feeling like a regular human being again. The four-week stretch was a bit of a problem. I made it to three before I started having symptoms again. But again, as soon as I got the treatment, I was back to normal within a couple days.
The eight-week thing has thus far been impossible. I made it four weeks last time, and had to go in early because there was no way I would last another whole month. That time it took over a week before I bounced back, and I started having symptoms again four weeks after that. I still have another week and a half until my next appointment, and I've been trying to get it moved up so that I'm not in pain until next Friday, but the insurance company is dragging its feet getting my prescription refilled. (I have to go through a specialty pharmacy and get prior approval because it's so expensive.)
Don't they realize this is exactly how I ended up going to the hospital in the first place? I was supposed to start on this medicine, but because the insurance took their good old time getting it approved, two weeks later I still had no medicine and was puking my guts up pretty much every day. I would not like to repeat that experience, so please to be giving me drugs now, k?
In other news, I went over a friend's house to watch Glee last night. It was my first time, so, people who watch it - is it always like that? Is that a typical episode? Because I remain unimpressed and can't figure out why it's such a sensation (except, of course, that it's got big flashy musical numbers, but WTF, watch an ACTUAL musical, why don't you?). Afterward, my friend said to me, "You want to watch the whole thing now, don't you?" and I was like, "Um, maybe if NPH were in every episode..." I remain puzzled as to how this happened. I mean, this is the friend who introduced me to Buffy, Angel, and Veronica Mars. She MUST have good taste. And yet, not only did we watch Glee, she also subjected me to Cougar Town. I don't understand.
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Yeah, I was promised an awesome Sue, and didn't get much. I don't think it was appealing enough to try to find a Sue-ier episode, though.
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