I Could Spit Nails!

Warning-Trigger-Major Vent

You will seldom see a negative post from me but today I am so angry I am having a hard time dealing with it. I want to pick up things and start smashing them against the wall. I think about the people who are hurting me right now and it makes me think about using my mace and...well I won't say it but use your imagination.

I have been sick for six weeks now and it is due to a doctor who refuses to prescribe the antibiotics I need so desperately. I've had really bad bronchitis coupled with major stress and the combination is wearing me down.

When I first saw her, she prescribed atibiotics and after only three days I was starting to feel better. She had given me ten days worth, but the other seven days worth were stolen by the same person who stole my klonipin. And my credit card. And my military ID. And my social security card and many other things.

I told the doctor and asked her to please give me another script. But no!
She tried me on something else that didn't do **** for me. When that didn't work, she tried me on something else. I feel like screaming. Why won't they listen?

I've put a call into the VA clinic once again, asking for the original script of antibiotics. And I put in a call to the patient advocate. As the minutes tick by ad no one has returned my calls, my gut is tied up in knots and I can't eat or take my meds right now.

It's not physc meds-it's just ****ing penicillan! I'm so tired of being sick. I have no energy, I can't work out or get anything else done and when I cough it sounds like dying seals.

I'm goig to go for another cup of coffee and then bring the red headed fury down on them. I will do it calmly (ha!) and politely but they WILL be listening.

Thank you for letting me vent. I feel a touch better. I'll let you kow what happens.

I'd say your anger is justified right now. You're right: It's not psych meds. It's not opioids or other painkillers. It's an antibiotic for an infection. You're not drug-seeking. You want to get well. What, is she waiting for you to get pneumonia?

Only thing I can think of is that there is some kind of paperwork she'd have to fill out for another prescription. I do know that a lot of health care providers and organizations have guidelines and protocols to avoid the overprescription of antibiotics as a way of limiting the chances of contributing to an antibiotic-resistant superbug.

If you reported the theft to the police, the police report should be enough to show them for them to justify writing and dispensing another script. You could also remind them that given what antibiotics tend to do to people's GI systems, you're not exactly asking for a joyride here.

Thak you Marielle-

I still get cofused as to what goes where.

Anyway-I got the antibiotics. After our dicussion was done, she says "You're not going to like what I have to say."
I'm thinking, "Oh *****, now I have to kill the bi*ch."

Then she sez "I think you're fixated on these antibiotics-I don't think you need them-but I'm afraid if I don't give them to you, you'll have a bipolar breakdown."

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

It sounds like a square dance, doesn't it? Spin that gal around, there she blows, let's do the bipolar breakdown! (Many whoop-de-doo's and sounds of kettledrums and fiddles.)

I'm going to take an antibiotic. I think I'm fixated on them...

WHAT. A. BI T CH.

Bottom line: you got the antibiotics you NEED.

I hope you feel better very soon, T&S