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What a change!
Apr 27th
It’s verrrrrry nice to be pleasantly sleepy and it’s not quite midnight. Getting off the Theophylline was the best thing I’ve done. No more staying up til 2 am and fighting to go to sleep. Now that the aches are gone I feel almost like a normal person.
Goodnight.
Overnight overkill
Apr 15th
I just received a surprise overnight package (no, the UPS driver wasn’t hot) from the VA pharmacy. I usually get my meds through the regular mail. Intrigued, I popped that puppy open to reveal a cooler with ice packs and one box of my inhaled medication.
Wha-what? Nobody told me that one was supposed to be refrigerated!
Nobody told the drug company either. Nowhere in the nine pages of information does it say keep refrigerated, just room temperature and dry.
Overkill? But thanks VA for the free cooler!
Are you kidding me VA?
Mar 5th
I got new meds in the mail yesterday.
They’ve replaced my open and shut purple disc (bottom) with the three dispensers at the top. It took me a half an hour last night to figure out how to use all these stupid things.
The light blue one is used twice a day. You take the cover off, twist it open, insert a capsule from the blister pack, close it up, squeeze both sides to puncture the capsule and then inhale. Then you open it back up to dump out the empty capsule.
Then the short grey one has about the same number of steps. That’s twice a day, too.
Then the pink one thankfully comes pre-loaded, but I have to remember to only do this one once a day but inhale it twice in a row.
And this is on top of the pills I have to take!
I try to schedule my meds for around 10 in the morning and at night to work around the eating/not eating requirements. When I’m out, I can slip that little purple disc and a small pill holder in my purse and voila! Quick click and inhale and I’m done. WTF am I going to do now? I’m out almost every night until well past midnight! This shit is going to put a serious cramp in my social activities. I can’t carry all this out with me!
“Excuse me loverboy whilst I take 20 minutes to fondle and suck on all these stupid inhalers before I work on you?” (That’s assuming I ever bring a loverboy home again.) Oh yeah, that’s sexy as hell.
Fuck asthma.
