AmaltheaFrost
What do you do when your significant other declares that they can't deal with you being sick?
I've been on humira shot once a week, for several months now, and have been feeling well enough to ho back to work. Two weeks into it, my insurance makes a mistake that costs me a timely refill, and I missed my dose last Fri. Yesterday I passed out at work in the middle of helping a customer and went to the ER. Massive dehydration, but nothing else wrong with me. I get fluids and go home.
My husband had to shut our business down and take me to the hospital and then home.
Granted, he wasn't mad at me but at the pharmacy and the insurance company. But still. He made it clear his life was short (he's 64) and he couldn't deal with me being sick, and told me to fight harder to make sure I don't miss another dose. I don't know what else I could have done.
Eshani Agrawal Moderator
Hi
I think it's important for your husband to come to terms with the fact that this is a chronic condition and it may out of your control some of the time. For example, I generally am doing well on my medication, but every so often I have bad days - and my husband and I just have to accept this and alter our plans for the day. I don't think it's necessarily appropriate for your husband to say that because you're sick you need to do better, and I hope he realizes that you are doing the best you can--and that your life is also being affected by this illness, even more than his is!
That being said, being a caretaker can also be difficult. I wonder if he would be open to going to therapy or some kind of group where he can discuss his feelings? That way he can open up and feel validated in his own fears and pain while also being a supportive husband to you.
Ultimately I don't think relationships should cause us more stress. Communication is key and so is empathy on both sides. I hope that he is able to provide this to you. Please let us know how things are going. -Eshani (IBD Team Member)
AmaltheaFrost Member
Hi, and thank you for your help and advice. It's been a few days since, and he has apologized for what he said. However I know that at this time, he's under much stress and I wish to help him. He's not one to talk to others, not even family, so I have to wait for him to speak to me. It's just here lately he's shut me out.
He meant what he said, and while he knows it was inappropriate, it is what he felt at that moment. While it hurts, I can't help him if he doesn't speak it. Cause he won't talk to anyone else. If there was something I could have done differently with the insurance Co and the pharmacy, that's ifo I could use.
Eshani Agrawal Moderator
Lowrider Member
Have to stay hydrated with this disease especially if you are going to the bathroom a lot. Your husband is a jerk. Sad that even happened.
I'm not sure how you missed a dose. I can't speak for your pharmacy or insurance but mine would send a month supply to me. I would then reorder in the middle of each month. So the very least I would be covered no matter what. I assume your in the states, since you mentioned insurance. I deal with CVS Speciality pharmacy. You can (I could) even set up auto refills with this medication. Not trying to harp on you but maybe look into your pharmacy and see if they do auto refills. Also find out what day is the earliest you can refill your prescription, your insurance should be able to tell you that. Mine is the middle of the month, so about the 14th or so when i was doing monthly injections. Now that im on 8wk injections, Stelera, its about every 4 wks I'm allowed to order.
I understand if your Dr dropped the ball on the amount of refills cause that happened to me also. But my pharmacy usually requests the refills for me but I do make the calls to the Dr to make sure they emailed/faxed the paperwork over in a timely manner. Make sure or see if your Dr will put down a year worth of refills, makes things easier for us. CVS makes it easy for me to see how many refills I have so when I get down to the last months or so of refills I make my calls to the Dr office. Unfortunately, we are our own advocates for everything. For me I found out I can't rely on others even if a system like CVS is pretty much automated. There's some human interaction and it's up to us to make sure everything is in the works.
AmaltheaFrost Member
My insurance requires a specific specialty pharmacy, Accredo. So this is how the "chain of command" works in my rx process. My Dr puts in the prescription with a local specialty pharmacy, and they work with both my insurance and Accredo. They at least, get things done. Accredo on the the other hand is famous for not being communicative with either. They would rather a rx sit until I call the local specialty pharmacy to deal with it. Accredo also doesn't talk with me to tell me there is a problem, so I'm left to sort it out. As for having a years worth of fills, well humira was new for me, and changing the timing of the doses sent Accredo incommunicado. My Dr thought once a week dosing would take care of my lingering issues. Did it for three months. Nope. When I was on the two week dose, I would cycle between one good week and one bad week till my next dose. Well, that only got condensed within the week.
So we switched to Rinvoq. That caused another spasm of silent pain from Accredo, who took a month to finally get that rx filled. And again, now that I'm going on the stepped down dose of 30mg. Through it all my local specialty pharmacy has been a gem, giving Accredo the appropriate kick in the rear to get things done. I wish I could use them.
Maybe when I get a stable dosing, I won't have such an issue with them....then again....
christine.laaksonen Community Admin
Oh wow,
Richard Faust Community Admin
Hi
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Traci Musick-Shaffer Moderator