#taking medication

So besides the insurance/neurologist issues, there’s occasionally this issue which has never gotten this bad.

So I get to Thursday night. No refill sent to my pharmacy and I’ve already started withdrawal. Talking to my psychiatrist over portal email. She offers to call neurology. I’m not declining that offer.

Friday morning: Email from psychiatrist states my neurologist wrote the script in his system but never sent it over (sounds really accurate).

Friday early afternoon: My local Walgreens is now getting really pissed and calls my neurologist. He still doesn’t send the script over.

Friday late afternoon: I’m dealing with some more withdrawal symptoms (like a sky high pulse) at my primary doc’s office. Never been happier to see her in my life. She has her people call Walgreens to verify they never got the refill and then call his people to see what the heck is going on. Despite the pain management contract I have with neurology barring me from getting controlled substances from other doctors, my primary prescribed enough to get through the weekend. There is no stopping her when the well-being of her patients are on the line.

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WHUMPTOBER day 22: Pick your poison

"Allergic Reaction"

My Monday night professor has developed a habit of looking over towards me when she senses I know extensively on something. So when a classmate asked how ADHD meds worked, I sensed her head moving in my direction.

So I infodumped for a good 5 minutes on how the process for ADHD med prescribing should work (for people who actually have ADHD) often involving trying multiple meds and/or doses.

How ADHD meds actually work for us (they don’t speed up your brain if you actually have ADHD, they slow the brain processes down to where one can function when on a proper medication/dose).

We’re usually on them for the long haul (as a friend of mine is learning the hard way, he can’t function since stopping his ADHD meds)(and never quit them without doctor supervision. Withdrawal is not fun).

Not having my brain running a thousand miles a second and being able to focus for the first time in my life (didn’t expect it to work on the first day as my psychiatrist was rambling about needing a build up period).

But I keep trying to tell my doctors that my autistic self processes things (especially meds) differently.

Psych meds I’ve been lucky to get to 90% on the lowest possible dose or somewhere relatively low.

Asthma and allergy meds I am on what feels like horse med doses and I’m still having issues. Same with acid reflux.

There is literally no middle ground with how my body works. It works on the extremes.

And with the processing things differently comes medication side effects. I either get no side effects or severe adverse reaction/allergy. I can eat right after anesthesia with no problems. Never had side effects from anesthesia. I can’t take morphine or codeine without vomiting anything I injest all over the place.

She got her head against the wall,