I’m nervous about my new pdoc, I won’t see her till march. I told my old pdoc about the appointment but I don’t now what the old one will do. I don’t know if they will just keep sending in refills or if they will deny me service since I am switching clinics. I still have two months to go before I see the new one and I have no way to visit the old pdoc for a med check.
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Why can’t you visit your old doc? Do you mean you have no transportation, is that why you can’t see him?
If your old doc knows you are going to a new place to see a new doctor it seems like any doctor in his position would help you to make a smooth transition. That means no break in getting your meds. One of these doctors is responsible for making sure you don’t run out of meds. It’s their job. Whatever you decide to do, don’t wait until the last minute to do it.
Get everything in order as soon as you can. Get this medication situation straightened out now and don’t wait until you run out of meds before you take action, Use the phone or use e-mail or visit these doctors in person or write a letter. But call both if you need to to get this problem sorted out. Find out which one is going to help you so you don’t run out of meds.
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Get everything in order as soon as you can!
I don’t let society not give me meds because, for one thing, it’ll cost the system thousands of dollars for a mistake like that that sends me to the hospital.
Jayster
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i can’t see the old pdoc because of a transportation issue, the taxi service I was using doesn’t take Medicaid anymore so I have to use another one and they require more money to go out of town to see the doctor. I called the old pdoc’s nurse and left a message I got about a week and half left of most of my pills. I have to hope they call me Monday or Tuesday. I already got told that the new one cant do squat until she sees me for my evaluation.
Don’t just wait for the phone call. Be proactive and call them again first thing Monday morning.
:The squeaky wheel gets the grease".
I’ve learned (and you probably have too) that if you don’t bug people, than sometimes they will often not act as fast as they can and they will take their time. Don’t call too much, but keep on them. Be clear on what you need and what you want. Do any buses run that way?
No buses, I looked it up. The area I live is kind of in the middle of a bunch of farming towns. I bet the nurse is already tired of me, I called them at least 20 times when I was trying to get my Haldol emergency prescription sent in. I just can’t believe my new clinic expects someone to go without meds for 5 months in while going to therapy appointments to wait for a psychiatric evaluation. Therapy only helps so much.
I can’t believe it either… Is leaving a patient without meds their policy? Do they do that to everybody or is it just you? Do they know this policy may put you in the hospital? Or do they expect you to buy the drugs yourself from someone else and pay for them yourself? It seems like something weird is going on if they won’t give a sick person their medicine. Are they just ignorant?
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They said it’s just because they are so over booked with patients. They make you go to four therapy appointments and one of them is the intake evaluation. Then the therapist puts in the referral for treatment. But the front office kept saying I hadn’t had my three regular therapy appointments and refused to accept the referral. It wasn’t until my therapist got mad and went to her boss did they accept the referral. But the soonest they can get me in is march 16th, I’ve been going to therapy there since early November.
Whatever else is going on or whatever their policy is or whatever red tape is standing in the way of you getting meds, the bottom line is they are denying you medicine and if you don’t have that medicine then it might put you in the hospital. To me, that seems almost like a criminal act that could possibly get them in trouble.
They say they cannot get you meds. Often the buearaucracy will say it’s impossible to change policy or to it’s impossible to help you. While you just gave a prime example of what bulls*it that is. It’s often not a case of they CAN’T help you, often it is more a case of they don’t WANT to help you. Your just a patient to them and they don’t want to go the extra mile to help you. They don’t want to fill out extra paperwork or bother with helping someone. You need to get someone to pressure them into getting you meds when you need them. Denying someone their life saving meds is impossible.
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There’s nothing the new clinic can do so I had to make an appointment with the old one to continue getting my refills. I just have to find a way there. May be my partner can bribe her mom to take me or something. I’m going through a new busing system, they may just take me but who knows how much that is going to cost me.
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Have you looked into getting your medication delivered to your home? That’s how I get mine.
The only place that does that I think near me is called genoa. they use to supply my invega sustenna injection to the clinic. it got delivered every Monday before my injection date. I didn’t mind having it sent to the clinic and picking it up weekly there it made sure I got my meds on time and made sure I took them daily.
OK, that’s good.
thanks for the help @77nick77!
You’re very welcome cbbrown.