Maybe I need an Intervention?

This is not related to Jade at all, but I'm sure some of you will enjoy.

Sooo... are all Psychiatrists [aka pdocs] a$$holes, or just the ones I choose? Well, technically, this time around it's the new pdoc's office staff.

The back story: I'm running out of my prescription of Lex@pro. I order through a mail-order pharmacy and the doctors usually write 90 days with three refills. I didn't realize this one was different. I had been on this med for a while now and already had a prescription from my previous pdoc. When that ran out, I sent the new one in. Makes sense, right? Only problem is I didn't realize it was a 90 day prescription with no refill. I wanted to give the doc enough time to order a refill and for it to process through the mail-order so I contacted the office about 2 weeks ago [when I noticed it was getting low and I then saw no refills on the label]. I called the main office and she told me to have my pharmacy contact them. I explained that it was mail-order so it was different, but I would see if they could do that. I went online and chose the option to "contact doctor for refill." I kept an eye on it as it "processed" and then a few days later, was denied. So I called again. This time I asked if they could just fax something into my regular pharmacy. She took down the number and said she would. Called the pharmacy 2 days later, nothing. I get an email from my mail-order place saying the Le*apro had shipped. I was like, "really?" and I believed it. Figured maybe the doctor ok'd it after all. A few days later, it said it was denied. Now I'm more confused.

Flash forward: Today, I call my regular pharmacy and ask again if they received any orders for me. Nope. So I just called the pdoc's office again. I give the girl my name and she looks me up.

"Oh, you haven't been in [in so many] months, I can't order you a refill."

"What? I've been going back and forth with you guys for 2 weeks trying to get a refill and you are just telling me this now?"

"Well, you haven't seen the doctor since_____."

"I know, you just told me that, the year has flown by. So I'm supposed to quit my prescription cold turkey*?"

"You can go to the ER."

W.T.F? Seriously? "That's nice. So I guess I'm quitting cold turkey?"

Well, where HAVE you been getting your prescriptions? [the drug addict that lives in my basement of course. No, actually I told her that my old pdoc had given me a prescription before I switched to the new one]

"For the last ___ days?!" [I explain the mail order thing and how it is written for 3 months and that there are usually 3 refills. She didn't get it. Obviously, I'm a drug addict.]

I gave up, "I suppose I'll make an appointment, I was going to anyway."

"We have 1:30 open on October ___"

"Well, what's the earliest time he sees patients?"

"1"

"Ok. What is the latest?"

"1:30"

"So he only sees patients from 1-1:30?"

"Yup"

::sigh:: "I meant IN GENERAL, when is the earliest and when is the latest appointment times?"

"He sees them from 8am to 6:30pm. But there is nothing open"

"Until when? I'm sorry, but I work during the day"

"mid-October"

"Well you have me stopping the drug cold turkey, so does it really matter?" [So she gives me a date in October at 6pm, but I tell her I have classes on that day. So she gives me the option of 6pm the following week on the same day. I tell her I HAVE CLASSES THAT DAY.]

"Well, I have 12:30 open [this day], 11am open [that day]..." [I explain to her again about how I do this thing where you go to a place and you do stuff for a certain number of hours and then they pay you... She sounds confused and tells me again, that it's going to be a while until I'll get an appointment then.]

"Just tell me when he can see me later in the day."

"November [---] at 3:30."

"Fine, I'll take it, I'll just have to leave work early. You've been a lot of help."

Do you know how bad I wanted to scream? And why the freak do these people always assume you are lying or trying to swindle them? Remember this post about my old pdoc? [which is one of the reasons I got a new one]. If I was a drug addicted psycho, do you really think I'd be asking you to get me a prescription for 10mg of Lex@pro? Why wouldn't I ask for Li+hium or V@lium or some sort of pain killer. Idiots. They're all idiots.

In a fun twist, my mom takes the same medicine, only at a higher dose. When I told her about what happened, she is letting me "borrow" some of hers [I'll just have to cut them in half] until I can get my appointment and I'll just give her the same amount back when my prescription comes in. So basically my pdoc has caused my family to resort to drug trafficking. Good times, good times...

*Most psychiatric drugs have some sort of side effect if you just stop quickly without tapering the dose. Sometimes the withdrawal symptoms can be serious, as with P@xil. With someone that has severe mental health issues, it can cause major mood alterations. The person I spoke with does not know my diagnosis, health history, list of meds, etc, etc. I don't think a administrative assistant should be the end-all to my conversation. But whatever. Because I sensed I'd run into a problem, I started taking the pill every other day....so technically, I wouldn't be quitting cold turkey. Recently, I posted about weaning myself off Lex@pro and it didn't go well. I ended up going back on it. I started getting highly irritated at every little thing.