Mark,
Can you take a few extra pills each day untilyour dr. come back from
vacation? I know generic Dilantin isn't as stong as the regular and
that is what I would do.
Millie
> The place where I work changed health insurance companies and didn't
> bother to give me a mail order form for my prescriptions. I thought they
> were still using the old mail order pharmacy, so I filled out a form and
> sent it there with my scrips. Come to find out that they were using a new
> pharmacy and didn't give me a form for it, so I had to call the old
> pharmacy and have them forward my scrips to the new place or send them
> back to me so I could mail them to the new place.
>
> The new pharmacy called my doctor after getting the info from the old
> pharmacy, and had them fax a copy of the scrips. The original scrips said
> 'dispense as written' on it, but the faxed copy didn't (as far as the new
> pharmacy knew) so they sent me generic instead of brand name. When I
> talked to someone at the new place, they said according to my health plan,
> my prescriptions were too expensive to cover, so they had to send generic.
> The only way I can get the brand name is to call my health insurance and
> see if I can get an override on the policy. I have to have my doctor tell
> them why I have to take the brand name meds.
> Problem is, my doc is on vacation, so I can't contact him. Even if I'm
> successful in getting my correct meds, I can't send back the generic, so I
> won't know what to do with it. I am so pissed off about this (pardon my
> language). Thanks for letting me vent.
>
> Mark
>
>
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