Lucky Break on Meds!

Unlike my last package of IVF meds, todays package came bright and early at about 10:30am! It had the remaining 43 vials of Menopur I'll need for this cycle, all well packed in bubble wrap. I even got an out for delivery notice from IVFMeds.com letting me know the package would be coming soon.

MeRopur!

I emailed their customer service Tuesday night asking about Meropur vs Menopur and their rep called me Wednesday morning. Instead of emailing, he wanted to explain to me personally that they were in fact the same drug by the same company, Ferring. IVFMeds sources their Menopur from several different countries in Europe and as I thought, this batch happened to come from Italy. Thus far, I'm once again impressed with their quality and customer service.

With my Menopur safely in hand, it was time to move on to my Kaiser order! I called them on Tuesday as well to confirm that my prescription was ready for pick up and got the all clear. So I climb in the car, battle through traffic, find a lucky street parking spot, and stand in line. I get up to the counter to pick up my "ready to go" prescription and surprise! it's not ready. The tech tries to tell me that he doesn't have it at all, I insist he does, and he agrees to get everything together if I don't mind waiting.

So I wait. And wait. And wait some more.

He finally calls me up to the counter only to tell me sorry, he doesn't have my Omnitrope. Le sigh. Again, I insist that he does have it, remind him that I got confirmation that it came in, and he's still insisting that he doesn't have it when another tech walks by and says hey, isn't that in the fridge? Oy. So he finds the Omnitrope, huzzah!, tells me he needs to write it up and I need to wait some more. Okay, I'm good with more waiting. And waiting. For another 20 minutes.

This time I get called up to the counter by a different tech, they go through my prescriptions and surprise! they don't have my big mixing needles. She can't seem to figure them out, apparently 22 gauge needles in the same quantity as the other needles is a complicated request, and she eventually decides to just make a new script for them. So again, I wait.

About an hour after I get there, the pharmacy eventually gets everything correct and ready to go! A third tech started scanning all my items, rang me up, and asked for my card to swipe at the station over so I didn’t immediately see the price. When she handed me the bill to sign I just about died - it was only $30!!! Whaaaaat???

My $15 Omnitrope!!

My last Omnitrope order ran me over $300. Whatever they did differently this time, my medication rang up as covered!  I kind of froze because it seemed too good to be true, I didn't want to draw attention to the price in case it was a mistake and I didn't want to pay more so ahhhhh I just signed the bill, took my bag and hightailed it out of there! I don't know how it happened but it was so worth the wait and I am so grateful to whatever they did to get my meds covered. This process is running us a small fortune and every little bit helps!

Cilly and Fuckie confirming via bodily inspection that I have removed all items from the bag