Rant-a Claus is coming to town! (December mini-rants)

I support this Pitting.

Chefguy, I do know what you are talking about. The co-op I belong to isn’t so much like that but it would be way out of your way. It’s out of mine since I moved, but I still belong and I like to shop there for stuff the regular stores either won’t carry or charge even higher prices for. My complaint is that, when I find something I love, they tend to stop carrying it. Grrrr.

@Dr.Drake It amazes me how many idiots out there think the 12 days of Christmas lead up to December 25 instead of follow it. I’m not religious, but my parents and their parents were and this is the rule we followed. The tree didn’t come down until Twelfth Night. When I had a tree, that was the rule I followed.

Grrr. See, the Committee is efficient!.

Earlier tonight, I thought I got a pill out of the wrong bottle. Then, I discovered that the pills in my Mirtazapine bottle and the pills in my Paxil bottle are identical (small blue oval with F on one side and 12 on the other). It appears Rite Aid seriously screwed up. I have to call them tomorrow. I checked my refills, and the Mirtazapine is filled with small, yellow oval pills (which is what I remember Mirtazapine looking like).

ETA

This pharmacy has largely done a good job. But, last year they filled a prescription for Omeprazole. Omeprazole mixed with Mirtazapine can cause fatal arythmia. Luckily, I caught that before started taking it. Depending on how things go on the call tomorrow, I may be looking for a new pharmacy.

oops- they gave me Famotodine. I got Omeprazole when I noticed and complained. I apologize for any confusion.

Nope. I’d try draining the tank and adjusting the temperature setting, both easy things.

I haven’t been feeling well for several days, and I think it’s a medication reaction. My doctors haven’t been very helpful in figuring out what it is. :worried: I have no appetite, and I’ve been basically living on Tastykakes, fruit, and protein drinks. But every cloud has a silver lining, and this gives me an excellent reason to lay on the couch and watch Bluey all day. :blush:

I just took an Omeprazole. I take one every day for a condition (or more accurately, to prevent the flare up of a condition). Famotodine is something of a “downgrade” and a goal is to transition to it eventually. I tried once but I guess I wasn’t ready yet.

(This is from consultation with my GI, not something I’m doing on my own initiative.)

That’s my youngest daughter’s favorite show, she’d totally watch it with you. :smiley:

I caught some flavor of crud a couple of days ago - cough-barking like a dying seal pup, runny/stuffy nose (sometimes simultaneously - how does that work) and a sore throat, likely from all the dry coughing.

I’ve found a cough syrup that helps … but it’s loaded with red dye AND gives me diarrhea, which comes out an … alarming color. (Doesn’t help that they only had red Powerade and that I got a pinkish-red VitaminWater to keep my blood sugar up.)

Bleah, I hate being sick!

Wow, they don’t happen to have my wife’s medication, but my blood pressure meds are there for about 1/4 the price I pay through insurance.

I just confimed on the phone that Rite Aid put a ‘this is Doc’s Mirtazapine’ label on my bottle of Paxil. I noticed the problem yesterday but am unsure exactly how long (or if) I’ve been taking double the dose of Paxil and missing Mirtazapine.

Thanks! My mom is in the process of getting an implant too, so there’s a substantial supply of honeycrisp applesauce available. (She was supposed to be finished with this sometime in October, but she has TMJ issues and managed to pop her jaw while yawning…she couldn’t hold her mouth open enough for them to work. :confused: ) And I did get a consult scheduled for January. Unfortunately, this office only does consultation appointments in the afternoon, so either I get permission to work from home that day or I lose a whole personal day. Woo.

I actually hadn’t thought of that!

Had to have a tooth pulled first thing this morning. It was a very difficult extraction, broken roots, etc., plus bone graft. The root/gum was infected and very painful, now more so.

The Walgreens pharmacy still hasn’t filled the painkiller and antibiotic prescriptions, and it just closed. Fuck Walgreens.

Last time I needed a Rx filled, Walgreens pharmacy unexpectedly closed due to covid for what became 3 days with no information available and no transferring of Rx’s to any other nearby Walgreens (and no way to contact anyone to find any information). Luckily my Rx wasn’t time-sensitive, but likely many people’s were.

Self medicating with wine. It’s not working. I can only drink so much before I get queasy, so fingers crossed that I get to the sweet spot!

Finally got through to the pharmacy and got them to fill my Rx. Now I feel bad that I probably made some other person wait even longer for their insulin.

Someone tried to scam me on twitter. I’m not doing well financially so posted my cash app and thought maybe a christian will help me, as I need socks and underwear. This woman claimed she sent 2000 but it didnt get through. I was to put 50 on it for her and then it would come through. No.

I would like that! :slightly_smiling_face: How old is she?

I’m having a perfect storm of health-related problems. Some of it is a medication side effect, possible interaction with another medication, migraines or maybe a new life-threatening allergy, and on top of everything else, I might have Covid. I am very tired and I would like to take a break from this for a while.

I think I posted earlier that I just bought a car and found out it has a leak in the trunk. I’m kinda mad about that, because I have chronic fatigue and it took every bit of my strength to get through that, and now I have to come up with energy I don’t have to get the damn thing fixed. Not a fan of Honda right now!

She’s 8. :smiley:

Day ten without a fridge, today was supposed to be the absolute latest we would receive it, and nobody can tell us when it’s going to be delivered.

I feel like ass. Probably adjustment to new birth control medication, but I am utterly fucking useless today. I ran two miles, it didn’t make a dent in my depression.

My new job is stressful in part because everyone who supports my work has left the agency or plans to leave imminently. The person who did my job before this is gone. My boss, whom I loved, is gone. The finance director will soon be stepping down. And everyone is basically saying to me on their way out the door, “Here, you do this now.”

I’ve been around for seven years and I’ve seen some shit, but things look pretty bleak right now. Still, I’m here until they fire me.

My mom shares your sentiments; she gave up on Walgreens in favor of a local independent pharmacy after Walgreens took 8 days to fill a generic prescription.