Medicated Mix-Ups
If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I loathe using the phone. Undiagnosed/untreated ADHD don’t go well with trying to focus on a crackly voice down a tube with no facial or hand gestures to help parse what’s being said, so it’s a huge anxiety-causing thing. Hell, even thinking about using the phone pushes my anxiety levels beyond the point of reason, and writing about it is making my heart flutter slightly.
So of course, and I’m not sure why, but half of my meds are suddenly screwed up. My Depakote got doubled based on the last letter from my psychiatrist (which I managed to get fixed for at least this month), while my Zoloft has apparently been halved when I go online to order my prescriptions (despite the fact the right dose was on the selfsame letter). Two out of three ain’t bad, most people usually say, but it’s rather the opposite in this case.
The phone comes in because I probably, likely, am going to need to call Dr. K to get her to sort this out officially. I could potentially ask my friend who works at my doctor’s office to fix it for me, but I don’t want her to get in trouble for helping either. It would be one thing if I hadn’t gotten a call from Dr. A at the surgery harping about the Depakote, but he did, so my paranoia is turned right up when it comes to getting my friend in trouble. Even if asking her would be the easiest thing for me because oh hey, no phones. At least Dr. K is awesome insomuch that I can drop call her and she’ll call me back,but still, still…
Anyways, writing this in the hopes it will spurn me on to call tomorrow and ask her to contact Dr. A or Dr. N about it so it’ll be right before we go on vacation at the end of the month. Otherwise, I’m going to be running short of my Zoloft and that would never do.
Hope y’all are well out there. And preferably, not on fire; it’s roasting here in the UK.
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PS — I have a couple of other blogs that I do, and one of them I’m trying to get into the habit of doing as a daily with opinions and life and whatnot. You can find that one at Raeyn[Dot]Com. T’other is at the domain this used to be on, Digitalglitch. That one is crafts and hobbies, and I really need to do an update there as well!
Glad I’m not the only one who hates the phone. Until recently I thought I was the only one until my daughter’s adoption case worker mentioned that he avoided the phone when possible, and now I see that you do also. Thank you both! BTW, they’ve always blamed it on my OCD, not my bipolar or GAD.
It’s quite hot, and very humid here in Kokomo, IN, USA as well. Our air conditioning broke and we can’t afford the total replacement that they say it needs, so we’re suffering…
Most of my friends seem to loathe using the phone, NT or ND (neurotypical or neurodivergent). I think that a part of it is that we don’t *HAVE* to deal with phones to communicate quickly these days… in addition to anxiety/bipolare/etc.
You have my sympathy on the lack of air conditioning. I’m from Texas originally, so I took it for granted that it was going to be everywhere. Really, the temp would be fine if it weren’t humid; had I not gotten together with my husband, I had been planning to move to Phoenix ’cause I *love* dry heat.
Anyways, I hope you aren’t without a/c too long. Otherwise, could always try setting up chairs in the freezer aisle! xD