I'm more then grumpy right now

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Raven

garlic is also considered to be an antibiotic
but the difference is
it doesn't kill off the beneficial bacteria
only the bad bacteria....
yogurt only re-supplies lactobacillus bulgaricus
and Streptococcus thermophilus
which are quite different than Saccharomyces BOULARDII
hopefully your package from puritan will arrive today

Been on it since yesterday, I'm hoping it will help, but now I get to have the insurance company battle. My GI specialists wants me on the higher priced antibiotics not the generic flagyl and lucky me CVS called last week (ahead of a weekend of course), they won't fill it due to the insurance company. So now I have to see if the GI office can make a case for putting me on it, although at this point if someone told me that would end it; I'd pay the $1,000 bucks for the f'g pills.

The weather outside matches my mood perfectly.

[Got Stripers]

Insurance companies s*ck, they had my prescription since last Thursday and I still can't get it approved to get started. My GI specialist said Fallon Health Care is terrible and I'd have to agree based on this delay.

The major hospitals aren't much better, my girlfriends 89 year old mother sat in BWH for 4 hours without a nurse responding to multiple buzzes to help her to the toilet (she just had neck surgery) and finally peed on the floor. Due to that we expedited the release to Braintree Rehab yesterday and today don't they yell at her and treat her like crap all day today, to the point the girlfriend is pulling her out and bringing her home to stay with us instead. She was with us for a few weeks prior to surgery and with a finished basement it will work out, but that is where we spend most of our time and I'm not looking forward to the 80 degrees she likes the heat on.

Like my dear old departed Dad always said; getting old isn't for sissies.

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Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Been on it since yesterday, I'm hoping it will help, but now I get to have the insurance company battle. My GI specialists wants me on the higher priced antibiotics not the generic flagyl and lucky me CVS called last week (ahead of a weekend of course), they won't fill it due to the insurance company. So now I have to see if the GI office can make a case for putting me on it, although at this point if someone told me that would end it; I'd pay the $1,000 bucks for the f'g pills.

The weather outside matches my mood perfectly.

I'm normally a reasonable person but these situations are when it pays to be an #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&. If your doctors prescribe a treatment that the insurance pushes back on your dealing with a cost calculation set by some consultant bean counter.

Ask/Tell your doctor to demand the better drugs. They likely know the right key words to make it go through. Doctors don't usually prescribe medication stronger than necessary.