I wonder if an SOS call to the pharmacutical company who makes
her meds would get you at least a temporary supply

Sara

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:22:32 GMT, Russian <nobody@nowhere.com>, in
message ID <IwGoh.15037$rz3.8963@trnddc03>, in the newsgroup
alt.support.hepatitis-c wrote:

I haven't said this before on here but I pulled a crafty one before I
started tx.  It was a lesson I learned from old.  Although it is
mainly socialised medicine here in the UK (so payment wasn't an
issue), I knew damn well how unreliable drug companies can sometimes
be.  I took advantage of the very poor communication between the
hospital and the drug company.  I actually did not start my tx until I
had received delivery of the SECOND 4-week box so if there was a foul
up, I at least had plenty of time to sort it out.  I always had a
minimum of 4 weeks worth of meds in my fridge (except for the last 4
weeks of course when it started running down).  Of course the hospital
knew which week of tx I was on.  It would be pretty stupid (and
potentially dangerous)  lying to them due to all the bloodwork etc but
as far as the drug company were concerned, I started tx 4 weeks before
I actually did.  You know what happened of course.  They were late on
their delivery when I would have run out of meds.  I would have had
one of my shots two days late and would have run out of ribavirin for
a couple of days.  Anyway, I just picked up the phone and told them I
hadn't received my drugs and they were flying around trying to put it
right for me.  They must have been baffled why I seemed so laid back
about it :-) .
This was a lesson I learned from thew old days of seeing a private
doctor for a methadone script.  I used to have 6-weekly appointments
and with things like that pharmacists can be quite picky if there is
an error on the prescription.  So I used to work it with the doctor
that I had two weeks prescriptions in hand each time I saw him.
Funny how I carried that old experience through to my interferon
script many years later.