These people have advanced degrees.

[gridlore]

What a colossal fuck up. I've been on Mirtazapine for several weeks now. A week ago Monday, I noticed I was running low, and entered a refill request with my pharmacy. I got an "oops, no refills left, contacting the doctor" message.

Fast forward to last Saturday. I'm now out of Mirtazapine. We go to the pharmacy. They never heard back from the issuing doctor. I get three pills to bridge the weekend. Request refaxed.

Yesterday. No refill. I have an absolutely sobbing on the floor meltdown because Kiri had picked up a prescription for me, and neither of us checked it. It wasn't Mirtazapine, but my Warfarin.

I call the clinic, leaving an angry message. Get called back this morning.

They don't do refills by fax. You have to come in for the form. I am seeing the guy on Friday now.

But I have to fucking ask: if you give a person a prescription that has to be refilled with a hand-written prescription, and it is a 30 day supply, why in the ever-loving fuck would you schedule the next appointment for 45 days later?

A very stressful week and I'm spending three days off my crazy pills. Oh, joy.

Comments

[kshandra]

I'll check the tags in fucking_meds to see if anyone has discussed mirtazapine withdrawal previously; if not, would you like me to post there, or will you?

EDIT: No specific tag for mirtazapine (or its brand name, Remeron), and I don't have the time right now to dig through 100+ posts in the generic anti-depressants tag.

[gridlore]

Put briefly? Big fun. Insomnia, nausea, anxiety, return of depression-related symptoms.

[kengr]

Also, why the hell didn't the clinic either tell the pharmacy that you needed to come in to get a new prescription or better yet contact *you* to tell you this.

At *best* this is classic bureaucratic stupidity. At worst, it's [censored] malpractice.

You *don't* set patients up to run out of meds.