u/mochimoshpit

alright y'all i'm fuming. i take slynd birth control. it's the only one that works for me. this is after i stopped taking BC a while ago (lo lo estrin fe) because Express Scripts refused to fill it and put me on a generic that absolutely wrecked my body. the slynd really works for me. however, express scripts is giving me a complete run around and clusterfuck about giving me a refill. i just took my last pill today. i am out of this medication now.

FOR THREE WEEKS. i've been going through loopholes with express scripts, my doctor's office, and the local pharmacy at which i pick up this medication because i do not want to have it delivered through express scripts. first, express scripts tells me the pharmacy should have had it on june 15th. the pharmacy says they never heard anything from express scripts. i tell my doctor what's going on and she tells me express scripts doesn't know what my member id is or my birthday....even though we just had a huge prior auth debacle over this medication THREE. FUCKING. MONTHS AGO. i hate express scripts so much. they are the worst thing that has ever happened to healthcare.

oh and on top of that, they aren't filling my rizatriptan either and i'm on a waitlist with a new neurologist until august. during my worst migraine season, i am out of triptans. fuck express scripts.

hi! i have pots and neurocardiogenic syncope, along with ehlers-danlos (subtype up in the air, rheum dx'd me with hEDS for documentation's sake but heavily suspects clEDS, for which i'm awaiting genetic testing), as well as chronic migraines.

for context, i live in pittsburgh. to say the least, the climate here is...not great. it is unpredictable -- rainy one day and 90 degrees the next. on top of that, there's also tons of hills and the air quality is atrocious. i cannot drive because of this (...plus very bad peripheral vision) and i feel like throwing up most of the time i'm in a car. i also use a theraice migraine mask at least once or twice a day and i go through triptans like mad. for dysautonomia, however, i am currently taking propanolol and midodrine 2x a day.

last week, my boyfriend and i took a trip to salem. the plane ride to boston was rough - we hit turbulence and i had to take a triptan. however, once we landed and i rested at the hotel for a bit, i felt better. i wasn't horribly fatigued or bedbound in the hotel like i'd feared. i was able to put on makeup and walk around the town for a few hours. having my sit-stand cane helped a lot, too, but i was not on the verge of passing out nor in the weird state of clinging to consciousness, which NCS keeps me. my tachycardia was fine, too, and i hardly felt dizzy.

another day went by and i still felt fine. the worst of it was my joint pain from EDS, but that was to be expected. i only had one minor headache the whole time i was there. i wasn't fatigued or passing out or dizzy. i felt...mostly functional. it was lovely. we went to marblehead, too, and i was able to walk the length of devereux beach and then back after a 15-minute rest.

we came back to pittsburgh on saturday. since then, the headaches came back and i nearly passed out in barnes and noble on sunday.

my mom keeps joking that it's because it's a sea-level place, so there's salt in the air keeping me upright. is there any truth to that?? are there any scientific papers i can find to back this up? i also told my cardiologist about this and she's really intrigued, too.

hey everyone, i'm looking to get into cat sitting. i have experience grooming cats (my own and when i worked at a salon), so would i be able to offer that as a selling point, too? i'm also disabled, so i can't walk a dog (hence why i'm looking into cat sitting)

on that note, are there other animals i can pet sit? like birds or lizards or bunnies? i'd be down for anything as long as i don't have to put it on a leash and walk it lol