#prescriptions

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LJS 471 is a volume of 14th-century Latin medical works translated into Hebrew. Texts are mostly prescriptions including some added by a later hand inside the original lower cover. Written in Italy in the second half of the 14th or the 15th century.

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[kryptidkhaos]

4 broke disabled queers who need RX's and groceries

it's been really rough these past few weeks. it feels like everything is falling apart and our collective household's ability to cope with it all is dwindling, not helped by the fact that all four of us are either severally under-medicated or completely unmedicated right now. i'm personally in need of both my HRT and SSRI. my roommate and i have been picking up some delivery/gig jobs here and there, but can only do that during the hours we have a car available to us and it doesn't bring in a lot. some of our rent money for the end of the month has already been skimmed off so we could put bread and rice in the cabinets, which means our grocery budget from our next paycheck is prematurely shrunk in order to make that back, and that's still a week away.

anything folks have to spare means the entire world to us and will help us breathe a lot easier the rest of this month. <3

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[my-rheality]

PSA for everyone taking meds esp if you have food/drug allergies or problems:

(this may be common knowledge but I didn't know about this until today.)

CHECK THE INGREDIENTS FOR YOUR MEDS, Y'ALL. ALL OF THEM. ACTIVE AND INACTIVE.

because I was supposed to start a new med today and was looking through the paperwork that the pharmacy gives with the medication and I noticed an inactive ingredient was lactose. I'm lactose intolerant. pretty sensitively so.

so I did some more digging and found out that another one of my meds also has lactose in it. that explains some things.

(also make sure that those conditions are on your patient profile with the pharmacy)

so for my fellow lactose intolerant peeps or peeps with different food/drug allergies or for problems with things like dairy, gluten, soy, peanuts, etc., CHECK THE INGREDIENTS OF YOUR MEDS.

[rosethornewrites]

Medicaid is apparently afraid I will abuse my hormonal birth control, and despite the prescription calling for skipping the placebo pills and immediately starting the next month, they won’t allow me to fill the prescription in that manner.

I am, fortunately, not using it as a contraceptive, but instead to manage several medical conditions.

Which maybe isn’t fortunate, given that my choices are limited on this shit and having an actual period could cause major problems, especially with my autoimmune disease. Anyway, it couldn’t be filled until today.

They’re also freaked out about the minuscule dose of a controlled substance I take. This morning I took the last dose and called to check on my refill (which I had sent days ago) only for the pharmacy system to claim they didn’t have it. The nurse at my doctor’s office, when I called, told me it was because I can’t get it filled til tomorrow because it’s a controlled substance.

Me: I guess I’ll spend tonight really high to cut the pain, then, because I took my last dose this morning.

It’s legal in my state and I’d still do it if it wasn’t.

She paused, then said I should call the pharmacy and explain but lol then I’d be treated with suspicion of being an addict, which I told her point blank. I thanked her for looking into it and wished her a nice day.

Apparently she got that fixed somehow because half an hour later I got the text that it was ready.

I had to drive 45 minutes to pick up the birth control because the system wouldn’t let me schedule Instacart (usually how I have them delivered) and I need it tonight, and then picked up the second at another pharmacy on the way home.

I’m going to pharmacy A to save Medicaid some money, as I got my meds there when I was uninsured for cheaper, but I’m thinking of slowly switching everything over the pharmacy B because it’s like 5 minutes from home.

The moment I got home, I crawled into bed and slept for 3 hours and the prospect of actually getting out of bed again is unpleasant because my pain is not good today so I need the weed anyway. And so my spoons have used calling doctors and going to get my meds and I have accomplished fuck all else.

Man, I just want my meds. I want to take them on time and not feel like maybe I should skip doses to make them last longer because of this sort of thing.

Yay, America.

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[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 468 is a collection of prescriptions from the 14th-century physician Meir ben Solomon Alguadez and one of his student. Originally written in Spanish, this is a Hebrew translation completed in 1546, with Latin translations alongside.

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DeWine vetoed House Bill 68 on Friday, which would have prohibited doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors and banned boys from competing in girls’ sports, just hours before the deadline. A review of donations from 2018 to 2023 found that the governor received $40,300 from the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA), Cincinnati Children’s, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and ProMedica Children’s Hospital, all of whom support transgender medical care. OCHA donated $10,000 to the Mike DeWine and Jon Husted Transition Fund on Dec. 28, 2018, and another $10,000 on Dec. 7, 2022, according to the report. A transition fund allows candidates to spend donations for “transition activities and inaugural celebrations,” according to Ohio’s campaign finance handbook. Cincinnati Children’s, an affiliate of OCHA, donated $300 on Dec. 15, 2022, to the fund and ProMedica, another affiliate of OCHA, also donated $10,000 in December 2018, according to the reports. Nationwide Children’s, a third affiliate with OCHA, donated $5,000 in December 2018 and another $5,000 in January 2023 to the transition fund. The governor’s office referred the Daily Caller News Foundation back to DeWine’s comments on the bill and his veto. DeWine said last week that he was visiting hospitals that provide transgender procedures to hear families out on both sides of the issue but did not elaborate on which hospitals he went to. Nick Lashutka, president of the OHCA, testified against House Bill 68, arguing that the bill “strips away” the rights of parents and their transgender children, according to The Guardian.

Cincinnati Children’s has a Transgender Health Center that works with patients from five to 24 years old, according to the hospital’s website. The center’s frequently asked questions section explains that patients can get puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones with family consent and does not list an age limit.

[everydayesterday]

Rx Hell.

various things that are mentally taxing for me with regard to getting prescriptions filled:

auto-refills that don’t refill because you have no refills left and the pharmacy system doesn’t bother to tell you

“Too soon for refill” 

“This Rx will take a little longer to fill”

“We’ll contact your provider”

provider not responding to pharmacy (either within 3 days, or sometimes *at all*)

controlled substance renewals every 30 days (with provider delay in renewing)

controlled substance narrow pickup window (out-of-town trips require extra planning, coordinating provider authorizing pharmacy to fill early if needed)

controlled substances requiring in-person pickup, rendering mail-order pharmacies unavailable to you

trying to get an Rx transferred to a different pharmacy location because you’re out of town

transferring everything to a new pharmacy hoping desperately that this one will somehow be better

30-day refills instead of 90-day

refill dates being out of sync (requiring multiple visits to pharmacy)

rationing of medication because of the various delays across the board in getting refills approved and filled

pills that need to be split because they don’t come in your exact dose

the pharmacy technicians don’t even have to ask my name when I get to the window; they already have that memorized

the pharmacy magically being able to “run it through one more time” when pressed about why they aren’t able to fill the prescription

“Do you have any questions for the pharmacist?” for the same medications I’ve been taking for years (I think they’re required to ask)

durable medical equipment medical necessity forms (in addition to the Rx; renewed annually)

durable medical equipment authorization (in addition to the Rx and the medical necessity forms)

pharmacy not being able to provide certain DME, while providing others

new medications with new side effects requiring new medications

side effects not feeling important enough to complain to provider about (e.g., skin issues, weight gain)

prescription dose increases where effectiveness has “not been established”

putting $0.14 on your credit card because that’s your share of the Rx cost

“Price without insurance”

remembering to take your medication

remembering that you’ve already taken your medication

filling up your weekly pillboxes

taking pills at 3 different times of day

pills that should be taken on an empty stomach, vs.

pills that should be taken with food, vs.

pills that should not be taken with any other pills

medications that taste disgusting when they touch your tongue

always having your medications with you whenever you want/need to leave your house

printing out your list of medications every time you travel, and theoretically having them in their original containers instead of your weekly pillbox

worrying about drug importation rules when traveling to another country

being chronically ill in the first place.

I’m sure that I’m missing a few things.  Plenty of other folk probably have it a lot worse than this, especially with being able to get prescribed by the doctor and afford their Rx in the first place.  The whole system sucks.  

Edit:  

navigating pharmacy phone menus that don't have a direct button for speaking with the pharmacist (and they only use voice prompts instead of buttons) (because there isn’t a way to do what you need to do on the website)  

every month wrongly thinking "surely, 5 days is enough time for everyone to get things figured out" when setting a calendar reminder to get the Rx refilled  

provider: “We sent that form a month ago; please double-check with the pharmacy” vs. pharmacy: “We haven’t received that form; please double-check with your provider”

Another edit:

I can't get my Rx transferred to another pharmacy location, even though it's the same pharmacy chain and they can see all of my information and confirm my identity, because it's a new prescription even though it's something I've been taking for years and is only considered new because technically I have to receive a "new" script every month instead of it just being considered a renewal because it is a controlled substance (and so I can't pick it up early), and that "new" prescription is specific to one particular pharmacy location.

[brian4rmthe6]

[jbfly46]

Anyone that has prescribed psychotropic drugs should, at the very least, have their medical license revoked, and the manufacturers should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.