Description: Various thoughts on various subjects
Lately, I have been having a difficult time. I had to cancel a medicine that I was taking that was definitely helping the depression, due to the cost. The insurance company decided to raise the copay and there is not a generic available. It was a difficult decision, but the lack of money to pay for it made the final decision. Now I am in the process of finding a new med that would replace that med. It doesn’t seem right, when the other one was working just fine. However, this is the way life is. I ei
A year or so back, I was on another drug that helped me stay awake, for the most part, during the day. I have chronic fatigue which is part of my dysautonomic disorder. I was sleeping more then half the day away. They had a drug that was working, to keep me mostly awake. I was on it for a couple years, when Medicare decided to pull the plug on it and not allow it because it was not being used for it’s “prescribed” use, according to FDA guidelines. I spent the next year or so sleeping. But that was alr
Now I am on a drug for ADD. It definitely keeps me awake, even when I don’t want to be. But, hey, that is more normal then being asleep all the time. It is a controlled substance, so I have to pick up a written prescription every month. Truthfully, it does work better then the last drug. The insurance company got it right this time. Let’s hope they don’t pull this one, or significantly raise the price of it. I do not want to sleep all the time. Well, usually.