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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 01:15 pm
Who would ship off a bottle of an injectable medication and not include any needles? (Don't bother answering.)

It was weird enough last month, when I got a 30-day supply with 25 needles. They had to break open a ten-pack to avoid giving me 30 needles, so it was deliberate. I figured it wasn't worth the hassle to ask for the other five, especially at their shipping prices, so I reused five needles once each. That's not as awful as it sounds, but I'd still prefer not to do it. Now I guess I'm supposed to snort this liquid, or perhaps use it as a suppository. Or maybe they figure by now I have a permanent little hole bored in my skin and I can just pour it in. Twenty-five needles must be the industry standard for "number required for the average patient to bore a permanent little hole in the skin for all future medicine doses."

Thank goodness my cat is diabetic. (That's kind of a weird sentence, isn't it?) I'll use some of hers.

Sheesh.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 09:33 pm (UTC)
This is true. Tho with the IVF meds, my dosage tended to change almost daily as they ramped it up when my ovaries laughed at the drugs and declined to respond.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 09:39 pm (UTC)
I'll just go with "the person making this shipment was clueless". Heck, they have not only the dose and the number of times per day I'm supposed to take it, but they have my phone number AND my doctor's phone number... Ah well. It's not the first time a clueless person at a pharmacy has made my life slightly less convenient! *cue hysterical laughter*
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
"...and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail."

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 10:03 pm (UTC)
Exactly.