Drawing Week 4 to a close ...
I had the blood test done for the end of Week 4 today. I won't know the results until likely Monday or Tuesday.
I picked up the second month's meds today and discovered they had mistakenly filled the PEG-Intron as a Redipen. We want to try the syringes again. However, they were swamped at the pharmacy with flu scripts and I couldn't bear the thought of having them change the order.
They also filled the ribivarin with the generic brand, which surprised me. They said it was at Dr. Scott's direction. I checked with Dr. Scott's office and they said it was, which I didn't doubt, and that it really didn't matter that it was generic rather than the Rebetol. Walgreen's had called them and said it was cheaper and Dr. Scott OK'd it. I suspect my insurance company called Walgreen's.
I guess the stamp on my latest Blue Cross/Blue Shield correspondence was prophetic. It read, "Demand Generic!"
As long as the virus disappears, it's OK with me.
Grace and peace ...
I picked up the second month's meds today and discovered they had mistakenly filled the PEG-Intron as a Redipen. We want to try the syringes again. However, they were swamped at the pharmacy with flu scripts and I couldn't bear the thought of having them change the order.
They also filled the ribivarin with the generic brand, which surprised me. They said it was at Dr. Scott's direction. I checked with Dr. Scott's office and they said it was, which I didn't doubt, and that it really didn't matter that it was generic rather than the Rebetol. Walgreen's had called them and said it was cheaper and Dr. Scott OK'd it. I suspect my insurance company called Walgreen's.
I guess the stamp on my latest Blue Cross/Blue Shield correspondence was prophetic. It read, "Demand Generic!"
As long as the virus disappears, it's OK with me.
Grace and peace ...
1 Comments:
Hi Buzz,
I wandered over to your blog from Ron Metcalf's. I noticed that you said you were having so few side effects that you wondered whether the treatment was working. I am at week 6 of treatment and have minimal side effects, being a bit inquisative I paid for a PCR test at the end of my 4th week and it came back virus undetectable. So don't worry, you don't have to have side effects to get a result.
Best of luck
Jonathan
http://hepcfight.blogspot.com/
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