Frustrated

AAAAAAAAAAAAH. I am so upset. I want to cry. I cry about the stupidest things but still grrr....

So I go to the eye doctor to get my new contacts and I find out I have an eye infection (so my eyes don't just itch from the cold I have!)

So He writes me a prescription and I go to fill it.

SO my pharmasist says that my insurance won't fill my prescription because he is an eye doctor, not an MD. All I need to do is call my general practitioner and have them call in the same prescription.

WHAT??? Well thats all well in good, except I don't have a general practitioner.

SO I run over to the 24 hour clinic and pray they can help me.

SO the doctor there looks up my prescription in his little drug reference book, and then he looks at me, and then back at the RX, and then back at the reference book, and then looks at the RX again and says...

"so you have an infection..in your...? "

"eye" i say...

"Ok and this prescrition if for...?" (as he references his book)

"The infection" I repeat "in my eye..."

"Ok and your wearing contacts now?" (book reference)

"Yes, becasue I haven't been able to go home and get my glasses yet..."

"because you have an infection?" (look at the book again, flip back and forth a few pages...)

"Yes,"

"in your..."

" in my eye..."

"Is it on the cornea?" (scanning the book...)

"Yes. Its not pink eye, its on the cornea."

"the infection?"

"Yes. The infection is on the cornea. In my eye. "

"Come back here, please"

So he looks at my eye (like the guy knows what he's looking for. I mean seriously. I am asking for a prescription for an antibiotic eye drop. I'm sure thats big on the teen drug scene these days... Can't he just copy the damn perscription?)

So he looks in my eye with his chunty MD light and I say. "It should be easy to see. My eye doctor just put in the dye..." (As in, I just left the freakin doctors office, come on!"

So he says, "You shouldn't need dye to see this infection," (Excuse me? you baggin' on my eye doctor?)

"Well," he says, "I guess I'm just going to have to take his word for it..." Grrrrrr

(Which, by the way, really pisses me off because it sort of felt insulting toowards my eye doctor..."well, i better take his word for it..." Uh YEAH, he is an EYE DOCTOR, and to be honest, a damn good doctor at that! If I could find a GP and an OBGYN that were as nice as my eye doctor I'd be in heaven... I mean, imagine, not feeling rushed at my appointments, getting my questions answered, even a moment or two of genral conversation.... and he calls me back on the phone! Personally!)

Anyway back to the know-it-all at the clinic...

SO he writes me out the RX.

... and a run back and this time, "Sorry, this time it got declined because your insurance doesn't cover this medication."

Way to freaking go.

I was so pissed off. All that damn running around! Thank the gods that my doctor gave me a sample of the stuff to start out with.

Why does this have to be so complicated? I mean seriously! Some drugs covered, some not. What is the deal? I hate going to the doctor becasue it just seems like everything is so complicated when doing so. I don't deal well with this stuff. I know its stupid but hoops and loopholes and all this stuff just stresses me out. Things should be clear. I shouldn't have to wait until I get to the pharmacy to find out if my insurace covers my medicine. I shouldn't have to even worry about that. I pay good money for my health care insurance. I should get whatever medicine my doctor thinks I need.

And if I don't stop writing about this I am going to cry, which probably isn't good because I only have this teeny tiny sample bottle of antibiotic eyedrops, and they aren't going to do any freaking good if I cry the damn things out.