Author: nomoremommyfood
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:25 pm
I’m SO happy someone else noticed how easily the damn things break in half! After finally figuring out a "correct" method of taking them – ALWAYS allow at least an hour (if you’ve pressed for time when you wake up, enjoy the option between arriving on time, but sick, for work/appointment/etc. or taking your medication as directed) – stand in front of the mirror and lift tongue, dodge tongue piercing and apply strip directly upon vein before it comes into contact with ANY saliva, lest you blow the whole operation and, again, find yourself either sick or taking a second strip and running out early (and, if you’ve run out early, it’s OBVIOUSLY because you’re either selling them or taking half a box a day), when I realize 3/4 of the time, the goddam strips are so delicate they practically need tweezers and a petri dish to keep from cracking.
I can’t begin to describe my fury when, on my final strip of the month, I opened the foil while standing over a laundry basket and had half my mysteriously pre-broken strip flutter gracefully from packet to pile of dirty underwear.
Seriously, RB? SERIOUSLY?!
I’m also on patient assistance, so I really "can’t complain" about the price. But, of course, I’ll complain, anyway. Because, in the 3-4 months I’ve been on no-longer-advertised patient assistance, I’ve never spent less than a week making sure my prescription is at the pharmacy, on the day I run out, even if it takes literally days of phone tag. Not to mention, what other drug manufacturer requires patients to ignore common sense (as well as instructions from Walgreens) and wait until the very day they run out of a medication they must take on a daily schedule to pick up their prescription?
I actually called and was told to avoid picking up my prescription before the exact day I ran out. So, what am I supposed to do when I’ve waited until the very last second to walk to the pharmacy (Sayonara, previously made plans!) and find the doctor called in Suboxone tablets, not film? Reckitt won’t cover it, I don’t have $700? I doubt (I know) I’m not the only person on patient assistance who runs through their um, "other" opioid options around the end of the month.
When you spend this much time fretting over obtaining drugs fast enough to avoid withdrawal (or establishing rituals around making your drugs as effective as possible), the similarities between standing on a corner and standing by the phone become all too evident.
God, I miss the generic.
