Posted 4/4/2020 1:41 PM (GMT 0)
Good morning everyone. Hope you're all well. Having anxiety attacks for the first time ever at age 55. I have undetermined-autoimmune-disease (began same time, diagnosed with Lyme). Had to see a new dr last week. The waiting room was small & there were 5 or 6 other patients & the drs exam office looked like, a converted broom closet(no joke). 1st app. I was in there for 1/2 hour. Was shocked to watch dr, cover her mouth, to conceal a croupy cough. Was given a prescription for, 1 week supply of medicine to try. Went to walmart pharmacy. Pharmacist said script was written wrong & sent me back to drs office. Returned to walmart where pharmacist said he only had 4 days worth, I'd need to return in 3 days. I asked him twice & he said, 3 days, return. I returned & he then said my insurance wouldn't pay until the next day-come back! He became irate when I told him, he'd told me to return in 3 days. Told me I was putting 'words in his mouth' and do i want to switch pharmacies? He said he'd text me when ready but never did. I told him, I was afraid to keep coming out because of autoimmune status & caring for elderly parents. He & another walmart pharma staff said, "Well we have to be out here and we have elderly parents too". I left in tears then had to return again, yesterday for the remaining couple days of meds. 4 trips to pharmacy for 7 days worth of drugs. Now this new dr insists on meeting on Zoom app by smartphone. I have no smartphone. Then read of the situation where countless people have been exposed and humiliated by Zoom showing their private chats online for everyone to see! Been having terrible nightmares, am shaking, pacing & chain smoking- can't eat. The pain in my neck, head and spine is nearly unbearable. Having a difficult time swallowing.... Taking Ashwaganda, praying and pretending to feel okay. It's so painful, to see what our lives have become. Those who're designated to care for us have so much power and so little compassion. Should we feel great danger from our healthcare system?- And now walmart has only ONE door- farthest from the pharmacy- that is open! The store's big, overcrowded, people are downright nuts and there's only 1 door, to get in and out. The anxiety this is causing is literally rendering me stupid,stuck & sick. Had to vent & get it out. Thanks for listening if anyone sees this!