The wife takes various prescription drugs. Most of the time, she a get a generic version, which saves some money. There is one that she has to take everyday is for heart condition.
The name brand is rather costly. There is a generic brand, which her doctor recently switched her to using. The idea was to be able to save some money on the drug. According to the doctor, it is the same drug, and should work the same.
The wife started taking it. That’s when we discovered that the two version of the drug are definitely not the same. The generic version ended up giving her intense migraine headaches.
We called the doctor about this but she was reluctant to put the wife back on the name brand version. The wife started with a new cardiologist who suggested we order the name brand from Canada.
The wife ran out of the drug recently and the pharmacy said she had no more refills. We called the doctor to get the prescription renewed, but when she called it in, it was for the generic. We found this out when we went to pick it up at the pharmacy. They didn’t have any of the name brand in and it would be a few days before they got it.
We had the doctor call it in to another pharmacy. When we checked with the new pharmacy, they didn’t have the name brand in either. It would be a few days before either one got the name brand version in stock.
The wife called the pharmacy in the grocery store nearby our house. She got the cardiologist to call in a prescription to them. When we went to pick it up we hit a whole new snag. The pharmacy didn’t take the wife’s insurance. The pharmacist was very nice and called her insurance company to try and straighten out the mess, but with no luck. Without insurance, the drug costs around $700. Great googlie mooglies!
We called a pharmacy in the next town over. They had the name brand version of the drug. We asked the grocery store pharmacy to send the prescription order over to them.
I dropped the wife off at the house, then drove to the latest pharmacy in our quest. I explained to them that we needed the brand name version of the drug because the generic was giving the wife migraines. I had to wait for them to get the wife into their system, get things squared away with her insurance, and then wait for them to fill the prescription. They finally gave me the prescription, name brand version.
I’ll tell ya, between insurance and the pharmacy and the medical community, medical care is getting to be a pain in the backside in this country.
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