#but having to do a prior auth for a med I've taken for 7 or 8 YEARS after trying 3 other ones because I switched insurances is EVIL

[ballsballsbowls]

In case you think it doesn’t happen to people who work in pharmacies:

1. Go to refill my asthma medication as I’m moderately low.

2. Call my PCP, who filled it for me last time as I didn’t see my pulmonologist because I was buying a house and getting a root canal in 2021

3. “That’s Dr. Pulmonologist's script and we won’t refill it.”

4. Call Dr. Pulmonologist, get an appointment for 4 weeks from the day (which is the only good step in this whole miserable chain)

5. Put in a refill on their line as I now have an appointment.

6. They don’t refill it, presumably as I am Not An Active Patient as I haven’t been seen since 2020.

7. Get seen a month later with like 7 days of meds left.

8. Ask for a sample or something as I suspect my meds will need Prior Auth as I am on a weird ass asthma med after trying 3 other ones prior and having a HOST of side effects.

9. Get a 14 day sample (spoiler: it’s giving me side effects) begrudgingly because she figures that everything will be resolved within 10 days anyway.

That was July 25th. I still don’t have any meds OR any updates on the status of my Prior Auth and I am going to very much be out of meds.

I have to say: this is 100% not my doc’s fault, and I know that in spite of having worked retail pharmacy in the past where docs are the problem in a LOT of these cases (or at least partially the problem), because we’ve had to do a prior auth for this specific med a couple of times over the years and I’ve never had this much trouble before.