LOL. Thank you.
The air quality is bad. 240. I had to take a bus and it smells like a house had burned. I wore a mask.
Yeah, it’s really bad here too (SE Michigan.) You can see a haze covering the streets. It looks like fog.
A rant with a little win.
My Vyvanse prescription runs out tomorrow. I always have to call my psychiatrist every month to get a new script. These are the stupid rules governing stimulants. It’s Thursday so I knew I better call before Friday owing to the holiday weekend because last Memorial
Day weekend I had no meds and was so tired it was hard to enjoy anything. So I called first thing this morning.
Guess what? Closed today for the holiday until Wednesday. No way to leave a message, no way to contact anyone. Yet another holiday weekend spoiled due to stimulant withdrawal. And my husband and I took time off together with Wee Weasel in daycare just so we could relax.
I’m pissed at my psychiatrist for leaving me hanging - can’t they send mass texts or emails about closing early?
Then something bizarre happened. I had a complete fucking meltdown. Thank God I was alone. I couldn’t stop crying and even screaming for about 30 minutes. I mean full-out shrieking. I don’t remember what part of the nervous system this involves but it was a tremendously outsized, intense reaction that probably had to do with more than vacation disappointment. I finally got it together and did some high intensity cardio. I’m okay now.
Glad I start therapy tonight for the Wee Weasel stuff. Obviously I need help.
My husband bribed me into calling my PCP to ask for a five day prescription. It’s hard for me to advocate for myself medically. I took the bribe. Results pending.
For many years, I was on methylphenidate (for those who don’t know- it’s the go to med for ADHD. It’s also a controlled substance). Due to insurance problems, I ran out while vacationing for a month in Florida (I live in Pennsylvania). A prescription from my psychiatrist in PA could no longer be filled in Florida. No psychiatrist in FL would prescribe more methylphenidate without about a month of therapy first. I had brought my work laptop and intended to work remotely. Without all my meds, that was impossible. Fortunately, I was able to go on medical leave (unpaid). When I got back home, my psychiatrist and I tried several non stimulant ADHD drugs. I found success with Qelbree. It works great for me. It’s so very much easier to get a hold of. It costs less.
I asked my surgeon for something to help me with pain after my complicated gallbladder surgery. He suggested Tylenol. I told him I’d buy what I needed on the street, and if caught by the police I’d explain that my surgeon refused to prescribe effective pain control. He wrote me a script.
I love this!
I tried Straterra and it didn’t help much. Stimulants seem to be “where it’s at” for me. But man, the withdrawal. I might schedule an appointment with my PCP just to check and see if he’s willing to be my backup when the psychiatrist is out. I’d switch practices but I really like my psychiatrist, she’s the most knowledgeable person I’ve had, she never questioned my ADHD diagnosis and she’s willing to change anything at any time. In fact we just upped my lomotrogine to see if it helps with the depression.
It’s kind of a miracle I ever got ADHD diagnosed in the first place. Highly academically successful non-hyperactive woman? There are still so many precribers out there with no idea about the latest research on ADHD. People I know have been told shit like, “You have a Masters degree, you can’t have ADHD.” And I’ve heard many people who actually had a diagnosis and a history of taking such meds switching doctors and being told they don’t have it and don’t need meds.
Liberty Mutual just increased our homeowners insurance by almost 50%! Never had a claim and we’re bundled with auto insurance too. We switched to them a couple years ago and every year they jack up the rates. Enough!
Went back to our previous local insurance provider who quoted much better terms for home and auto.
Homeowners went from $2100 to $985. Wth LM?
Great let’s do it and cancel LM. Too late they already scooped the premium from our escrow two weeks in advance of the policy expiration. I blame my spouse for avoiding their notices so now let me take care of it. Omg LM website is not very user friendly. Took multiple calls to finally decipher the code to get a real csr. Who btw much to my relief was super efficient and she mailed a refund check that I had to deposit back in escrow.
It so much more reassuring to have a local office who will handle insurance needs. LM was a faceless entity.
Talking to your PCP is an excellent idea. I’d also go a step further and talk to your psychiatrist directly about this problem - have you mentioned it to her yet? You can’t be the only person with this issue, and any practitioner with an ounce of sense would have some sort of contingency plan in place that you could use for when the office is closed and you can’t reach her. That plan may be in fact 'ask your PCP for a short-term Rx," but she may have other suggestions for you. Being forced to go off needed medication is completely unacceptable in my view, and that needs fixing.
Thanks, I don’t think it’s good policy either.
The good news is my PCP did call in the script and my husband is picking it up now. He was right to pressure me to call the PCP. And his bribe in exchange for making that call was offering to do all child care tomorrow, soo… I get to sleep in if I want to.
I talked to my Aunt about my meltdown and we pieced it together. Lots of trauma triggers this week. But she did say, “You have so much going on in your life right now, you are completely entitled to a panic cry now and then.”
So I feel better.
This is excellent.
My Neighbor across the street cut down the tallest tree in the area… because he didnt like the roots messing up hi rain drains.
I have those, plus 4-6 kinds of clover and about that many species of grass. Needs less watering, no fertilizing, and you dont have to spray Herbicide every year. Just as green, just as nice to walk on. The bees love the clover, as well as the squirrels and some birds.
That’s absolutely true.
A kettle that doesn’t release the steam somehow will catastrophically explode.
After applying to every Subway there is, I got a text from a different place and have a go-see Monday.
Wait, I’m supposed to rant…ok. I wish I didnt eat throughout the day. It feels weird to go more than a few hours without eating. No, I’m not diabetic. Its difficult to lose this spare tire by doing that.
Bizarro.
I was given a scrip for (IIRC) Percocet (most of which might well still be on a high shelf in my closet, from 13 years ago), after my non-complicated surgery - as a matter of routine. Around here (DC suburbs), doctors do not seem to have any problem prescribing reasonable, appropriate amounts of narcotics.
@spiceweasel I remember when my daughter was on one of the stimulant meds for ADHD, the doctor was permitted to write 3 months at a time, because we had a mandatory mail-order requirement for such scrips. We had to get 3 separate pieces of paper, and send them all off to Dropped’em (who generally screwed it up, of course). Is that possibly an option in your state?
Not that the meds are, as noted, always in stock. My daughter is now supposedly on such things again - and the Walgreens she has to go to in her small town usually doesn’t have it in stock - and without the meds, she can’t focus enough to remember to call and remind them. Nice little catch-22 scenario there. I likened it to someone who lost their glasses - and cannot see well enough to find them because they, well, lost their glasses.
A local beekeeper brings his hives to our property to let his bees feast on the clover in the horse pastures. We get a small jar of clover honey as a thank you.
He also takes hives to our neighbor’s apple orchard and makes honey, which I’ve tried.
Apparently I’m not a supertaster. To me, honey all tastes the same.
I sometimes forget lunch, but unfortunately I’m one of those people who gets nauseated if I don’t eat pretty regularly. It really doesn’t help to prevent getting fatter. It also affects the effectiveness of my Vyvanse.
My understanding of state law is that the psychiatrist has to call in a new prescription every month, and is required to see me every three months. I also cannot fill the prescription until two days before it’s due, which becomes a problem when the medicine is not in stock. I did actually call the pharmacy and ask them to please keep my medicine in stock. They were very rude but ever since I called, it has been in stock. Not sure if that’s a coincidence or not.
My husband and I have the day off alone together, it is a freaking gorgeous day, not too hot, so it would be perfect for a walk in the park… If only the air quality weren’t at an unhealthy level. Because of my asthma I don’t think I can risk it. I suspect a lot of people are going to be disappointed this weekend, but I think we all know many are going to pretend like it’s not happening. So a hearty fuck you to climate change deniers who have created a worse world for all of us.
I called a food place last night. She told me to come in. I told her my available hours. She had me fill out a background check. I said, thanks for giving me a chance. ( she had said months ago she had too many employees). She replied, You kept calling me!
Sometimes persistance helps.
Have another interview lined up monday just in case.
She said the background check could take awhile, then called me few hours later and said it came back fine.
Rant-June is over! It went too fast. I want it to be summer longer.