My time that I am capable of dealing with my blog and pt’s issues may get restricted going forward. We were just told that the independent pharmacy that we have been patronizing for abt 10 yrs is not going to be in the Humana Part D next year! This guy owns the only two independents in our county. Open enrollment starts in a couple of days for Medicare.
Our PCP told us the first of this year, that he is retiring at the end of 2026. However, he has had a hip joint replacement.. which apparently got infected and the hip joint is DEFECTIVE and he is to put no weight on the defect hip joint for at least 12 weeks.
We have also been told that the practice that our PCP is in – it has 10-12 practitioners – is developing a consensus for the practice in how they are going to treat pain. In the real world if a number of business people agreed to do something the same way it would be referred to as a COLLUSION – NOT A CONSENSUS.
I talked to the office manager last week and I asked for a copy of this “consensus” and she said that they had not put it to writing… I suggested that might be a very good thing for them to do.
Going forward, I am going to focus my time on adding to the “ACTION” tab and putting pt education information there.
I am not going to “share” on all the FB pages like a normally do with additions to the “ACTION” page. Below is where you can put your email into a place on the left column on the first page of my blog and Word Press will send you a email that I had made a new entry and/or look for the last 4-5 new posts that are listed in the same column
Below is a picture of the desk in the room that I call “my office”, this is where all “the magic happens :-)”. We knew that we were most likely going to have to change practitioners at the end of 2026 – if we can find one, but maybe having to change pharmacies as well in a couple of months, and now not knowing if our PCP will be coming back to the practice.
I may end up spending a lot of time trying to ADVOCATE for Barb and myself. If my blog ends up going sort of quiet, everyone will understand why!
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Oh man, I really hope that you and Barb find a PCP, and a pharmacy very quickly!
I certainly do understand what you’re going through.
You definitely didn’t need this aggravation. What is there ” consensus” going to be? I wonder.
Apparently their MME is going to be 60/day- but the office manager told me that the “consensus” has not be put to writing as of yet. Our PCP was fairly liberate in dosing – but cautious. He has only ONCE did a urine test on Barb and I think that was right after the hospital system that owned the practice he worked for was sold to another -& larger – hospital system. He has never given me a urine test – he knows that my pain is activity induced and he might take a urine test on a particular and I was show nothing in my urine. My Pharmacogenomic test indicated that I am a ultra fast metabolizer of Dopamine and when I do any “activity” my pain ramps up quickly- because when your dopamine drops – your brain will misinterpret the pain signal as being worse that it really is. He knows that I know what i am doing and told me to take what I needed, but don’t fill it early !!!… I am a MAJOR DIYer… Barb keeps pushing me to hire someone to do whatever – but I can’t find someone who will do it to “my quality”