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Okay, at this point my drug saga has gotten so Hobbie-esque that it's crossed over from frustrating to... kinda funny.

I called Student Health today to see if the doctor who wrote my prescription was in today. She was not, and wasn't scheduled to be in until May 31st. The obvious one being that that's an awfully long time from now. Not only would that be a pretty good chance of the migraines coming back, if I go off the pills the side effects always hit really hard when I go back on them. Don't want that.

So obviously I made an appointment with a different doctor. It was a pretty simple thing, it was 9:50 and they were able to get me in at 10:30. Figured it meant my morning would be shot, but otherwise fine. So I get to Student Health at 10:15 and go to the computer to check in. I got a message saying I was late for my appointment and should talk to the receptionist. Confusing.

So over to the receptionist I go. She agrees that it is definitely still 10:15 and searches the computer only to find... there is no appointment for me in the system. She asked what it was for and as I explained it she remembered that she was the one who made my appointment. Weird. She eventually decided she must have entered it on the wrong screen.

Long story short, they were able to squeeze me in and I now have drugs. Now I just have to figure out how to cut these tiny pills in half. :p
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My migraine medication is giving me a headache. I went to get the prescription refilled today, since last month they could only give me 30 pills (usually I get a hundred). Annoying, but I need to get my asthma medication refilled once a month anyway, so it wasn't actually adding an extra errand.

Well, fortunately I got in the habit of checking the bag before I leave the pharmacy after a couple incidents where they refilled the wrong prescription. So I was actually still at the counter when I realized that the inhaler was there but the pills weren't (the price also sounded like it was just the inhaler, but the migraine pills are only about a dollar with my drug plan so I wouldn't necessarily have noticed).

So they got the pharmacist for me and he explained that they don't have my dosage anywhere in the province. I'm on 10 mg and the only thing they have right now is the 25 mg pills. So what they've been stuck doing is having people cut the 25 mg pills in half (which is going to suck, because I have a feeling they won't be that much bigger than the 10 mg pills I take. I also suspect I am going to suck at this and will thus be all over the place in terms of alertness.)

But of course, they can't just give people the 25 mg pills on a prescription for the 10s. They need the doctor to okay the change. And since I go through Student Health, there's no guarantee the doctor who wrote the prescription was even there. They were supposed to call the lab if they managed to get ahold of her... so I'm guessing from the fact that I have no drugs that she wasn't in today. I guess I'll call myself tomorrow. I hope she's there, we're going into a long weekend.
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Ugh, I really don't know why I've been getting so many headaches lately. There aren't any obvious triggers. Maybe stress? It's been busy at work trying to get actual chemistry done in among the five million group meetings because of defenses and first year reports. Not fun. Though things are really starting to come together with the chemistry. We're talking paper in the near future for a couple of the solid spectra. Andre will be first authour, but I'll still be on the paper.

I have to throw a presentation together for the division meeting tomorrow, but... five minute literature presentation. I know what paper I'm going to talk about, I can totally squeeze that in between Crystallography and the meeting. Ugh, not enough hours in the day.t I wanted to work on that tonight but, well, my head hurts and that's just not going to work.

Maybe this does make sense.

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