My Dad took my new prescription into Costco today, but they refused to fill my antibiotics prescription.
The pharmacist said that the dose seemed "way too high", and even though my Dad tried explaining to him that this was the right dose (200mg doxy BID if anyone's interested), he wasn't having it and said he had to call my doctor and until then, no abx.
I was worrried after my Dad came home and told me this. I had completeley run out of abx and I could just imagine some long drawn out nightmare trying to get them and I didn't like drawing attention like that to my LLMD's office. I was worried that we were all going to get into trouble!
Anyway, I went in later today and the pharmacist came out and spoke with me. He said that he had been doing some research on the internet and I looked down at a sheaf of documents in his hands and there on the top sheet was the beautiful, welcome sight of the maple leaves of LymeNet!
I was instantly relieved. He said he now completely understood the doseage and reasons for it, and he just wanted to make sure that I knew that there was a good chance I would herx and to be prepared for it and be careful and take care of myself, and he handed me my antibiotics. I wanted to HUG him.
So, all's well that ends well and I am SOOOOO grateful for LymeNet! THANK YOU!
Cheers,
Ali
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wow Ali, what a wonderful story!!!!
Im glad this site was able to help you....i teared up a bit when you mentoined those leaves...i knew it was this site!!! good for the pharmacist...he actually believed in lyme enough to warn you of a herx!
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Hello Alison P !! I'm Julie, a long time Lymie. I notice you listed Danville as your location, and I live up the road from you in Martinez . . . I can well envision the Costco pharmacist doing what he/she did, as I go to the Danville Costco off and on. I usually avoid it because I have encountered that lovely snobbish attitude that the rich employ (even in a Costco) while standing in line in their designer duds waiting to buy their case of 500 gazillion toilet paper rolls . . . that said, I hope you're not a snobby rich Costco shopper! LOL.
Also good to hear that a pharmacist managed to get himself an education on the internet. ::::waving to Costco pharmacist:::::
If you ever run into another unenlightened pharmacist, try the Safeway pharmacy in the Virginia Hills shopping center in Martinez (on the Pleasant Hill border, on Alhambra Ave.) Fred will set you right up, as he has told me in the past that he fills abx for lots of Lymie families in my area (without giving away confidentiality details). There is another pharmacist in there as well, that is extremely sympathetic to our plight. I forgot his name, of course But they are both wonderful men who are very upbeat, as well as quietly sympathetic.
Were you featured in the latest Contra Costa Times lyme article from a few months back? I read it, but can't recall if one of the ladies who was in the story was you or not. Anyway, yoo-hoo from a close-by Lyme buddy. Got bit in Briones, while walking my dogs. In 1987. Diagnosed in 2000. Julie
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Julie, you actually made me snort out loud when I was laughing! Yes, the snobby Danville COSTCO. It's *so* true!
This is how desperate I was to get my abx: I shuffled my sorry self in there, didn't brush my hair, no bra just an old T-shirt and my lucky XXL red sweatshirt over it, pants with the top button missing and flip flops. I was looking HOT! LOLOLOL. And doing that slow Lyme walk ....that "oh my gosh it hurts to even move .. wow that turtle's going fast" sort of walk.
All those ladies with the coordinated sweatsuits, blonde dye jobs and gobs of jewels were eating their hearts out, I'm sure!
So cool that you are in Martinez...I know it well, in fact my hubby and I got married there at the courthouse. If I ever get the energy I will go back to those cute antique stores.
Thanks for the tip on Fred -- he sounds like a hero. After going through what we've gone through, it sure is nice to get that rare understanding kind person. I will for sure remember about that Safeway.
I was not in the recent article about Lyme. But I think I know the one you're talking about.
I am not sure when I got Lyme. I am going back over my health history and I think it may be congenital. The next nominee for when I got Lyme though is 2001 in Santa Cruz, but I never had a tick bite so it's hard to say.
Good to meet you!
Alison
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Your story restores my faith that there are good people around, pharmacists and docs who try to do the right thing! Guess it would be hard to hug someone who is behind a counter!
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Hey Alison, I'd try and do that new fangled "private messaging" thing, but I've had trouble in the recent past with it, so thought it'd be just as quick here to see if I could grab your attention for a few, and see if you'd email me some info?
Since we live relatively close, can I ask who is your LLMD? Do you have a regular physician who is lyme friendly? And pediatricians (if you have kids) that are also willing to work with a LLMD?
Both my sons and I have been treated by the famous LLMD in the city, but haven't been in for a regularly scheduled visit in over a year (for all of us). I'm worried with the way I hear his practice is so jam packed, and now they don't even answer the phone anymore, if I still have my finger in that pie, so to speak. My insurance deductible is so prohibitive before I actually get some relief in paying the LLMD's office visit charge, that I have not been going in to see him "just to check in" and keep my place in line there.
Anyway, if you could, please email me at [email protected] and give me anything ya got? If you put something regarding lyme in the subject line of the email, I'll know it's from someone on lymenet and won't just automatically delete if I don't recognize your email address.
Thanks! Oh, and hey, I just love the vision you must have presented to those lovely Danville ladies while you sauntered into the pharmacy there at Costco to get your meds. I've yet to venture into that particular Costco in my sweats, but have no trouble at all doing it at the Concord Costco . . . Julie
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