I have not written for quite some time. I really need to tell what has just happened. It is very unfortunate.
Two days ago, I called a refill prescription in to the pharmacy that I have been taking for probably 15 years. The next morning I got a telephone call from my family doctor's office. I knew something had to be wrong for them to call me "out of the blue". My doctor's nurse was on the phone and said that the pharmacy had just called them and that the prescription from their office and the prescription of my cancer medicine could not be taken together because the cancer medicine would not work taken at the same time. The pharmacy had an alert and so they called my doctor. Then I was given instructions how to wean myself off of the medication that was interfering with the cancer medication. I was in a bit of shock. His nurse seemed to feel that she was surprised that my oncologist had not said anything about the two medications not working together. After the call, I had an eye appointment with my eye doctor, and so didn't think much about it again for a bit. At the eye doctor, I was supposed to give them a list of my medications I take, which I did. His nurse was entering them into their computer, and immediately said, "You have two prescriptions that can't be taken together", which I told her that I had just found that out that morning.
OK. Now I have been taking this cancer medication for 5 months. Since March. My oncologist and my family doctor both have medication records that I am taking. Also, my pharmacy has refilled that same medication twice, since starting that particular cancer medication. Between the two doctors and the pharmacy, not one of them for 5 months had an alert to tell me of the problem, until the pharmacy got an alert today, and of all places, the eye doctor got an alert!!
Who is to blame for this? I would think both doctors should have told me this 5 months ago. I have seen both doctors within the past 5 months. And why was the pharmacy just finding that out now instead of 5 months ago when I started the cancer medicine? I have gone for 5 months on a cancer medicine that is not doing anything for me!! I have wasted precious time and money and have all of these awful side effects, for nothing. Right now, I don't know what to do exactly about this situation. I am upset. I feel like I got dropped between the cracks someway.
There is nothing I can do about it now. What happened, happened and there is nothing I can do to change it. I just hope that in those 5 months, my cancer didn't run amuck. Just saying.
