Having the 'Beetus sucks, but not always for the usual reason.
Dealing with CVS is fucking impossible because they do not listen. They fuck up my prescriptions A LOT. So I have to call them. A LOT. Those calls often devolve into arguments. If I could go to another pharmacy, I would. A heartbeat can't describe the speed with which I would do so. But my insurance makes going to CVS mandatory, at least if I want my medications to be covered, and I very much do.
Witness, if you will, the second latest conflagration between us. Ever since I was diagnosed, I've been using One Touch strips and lancets. I almost ran out of lancets, and when I got my refill, I assumed CVS had given me the correct items. The packaging looked different, but this shit has been through so many rebrandings, I barely paid attention. That's on me, I guess.
When I did run out of lancets, I opened a new box and stared at the contents. Huh. That won't fit in the device that shoots the needle into my finger. Then I read the box and saw why. For some reason, CVS had given me Accucheck strips and lancets. Which are incompatible with One Touch.
After a couple of phone calls, I confirmed the issue was with CVS, not my endocrinologist. I knew that, but when I do battle with corporations, I want to be sure that I have the facts 100% correct so I can catch representatives in a lie if I need to.
I called CVS to destroy them. Except . . . they destroyed me. The reason I got the Accucheck supplies was because United Healthcare, in their infinite stupidity, stopped covering One Touch.
It would have been helpful if CVS had told me about that, because I now have a ton of Accucheck supplies but no machine I can use them with. In short, I'd gone a few days without being able to test my blood sugar, and I was looking at going a few more days.
I wrote a note, just in case I died, so my family could sue CVS into the goddam ground. At least they would get something out of this fuck up.
After fighting with United Healthcare and CVS and having several conversations with my endocrinologist's office, I came to the conclusion that I needed to get an Accucheck machine. It took me two and a half weeks, but I can test my blood sugar again.
While I have you here, I'd like to also complain about the BD needles I use in my insulin pens. They recently changed the design. Before, I'd inject myself, and if I hit a nerve there'd be pain, but mostly I didn't feel anything. There might be a little blood occasionally, but that was it.
Now, I get a giant white circle in my skin, and half the time it fills with blood. Not right away, though, so some of my shirts have blood spots on them because of this.
I hope the asshole responsible for the BD pen needles gets fired with extreme prejudice. I suffer enough. I don't need this shit, too. It would also be helpful if he
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I set this aside for a moment so I could give myself my final injection of the night, then go back and give this a quick read to make sure it made sense before trying to remember where the fuck I was going with that sentence. I needed to open a new box of the BD needles, and imagine my surprise when I found it full of the old style needle. Holy shit! I can't tell you how relieved I am by this, and I desperately hope that this one wasn't just the last box they had, and I just happened to pick that one now. So here's what the good needles look like:
And this is what the shitty ones look like:
Whereas the good ones have a plastic shelf under the needle, the shitty ones have a very slim plastic tube instead. That is what is causing the white circles and the blood spots. I'll be mentioning this to my endocrinologist and CVS at my earliest convenience.
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