meltdown insurance company update

[Guest guest]

I really appreciate everyone trying to help - it really is good to know

there are people who you can talk to about all these issues.

Just spoke with my doctor on the phone and she confirmed what the pharmacist

told me yesterday - the insurance company can't just cut you off. There is

a State run agency who oversees all this and she said they could possibly be

doing something on the illegal side - also told me to write to my legislator

and gave me a number of other sources to contact and complain. I know I'm

not the only one this is happening to. I'm sure there will be more news

regarding this.

I most likely will write some letters and contact a few organizations - but

first I need to figure out today's problem which is switching over from the

Effexor to the Cymbalta. One thing at a time I guess. So I'm going to buy

a few Effexor's (15 to be exact) out of my own pocket which still will run

me about $78 and am getting samples of the Cymbalta so I can do the weaning

down process. So that will work for the time being. And that they can

supply me with samples of the Cymbalta for a good while. When they can't

anymore - well, I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I find I

can't take on all my problems all at once - which is what I tend to try and

do - fix everything at once. So at least I'm thinking a little better today

and am only dealing with one thing at a time.

Even though it took 2 days of melting - somebody is looking out for me

because an answer (sort of) has come. And I really, really appreciate all

of you.

Teri (central WI)

[Guest guest]

>

> I really appreciate everyone trying to help - it really is good to

know

> there are people who you can talk to about all these issues.

>

> Just spoke with my doctor on the phone and she confirmed what the

pharmacist

> told me yesterday - the insurance company can't just cut you off.

There is

> a State run agency who oversees all this and she said they could

possibly be

> doing something on the illegal side - also told me to write to my

legislator

> and gave me a number of other sources to contact and complain. I

know I'm

> not the only one this is happening to. I'm sure there will be more

news

> regarding this.

>

> I most likely will write some letters and contact a few

organizations - but

> first I need to figure out today's problem which is switching over

from the

> Effexor to the Cymbalta. One thing at a time I guess. So I'm going

to buy

> a few Effexor's (15 to be exact) out of my own pocket which still

will run

> me about $78 and am getting samples of the Cymbalta so I can do the

weaning

> down process. So that will work for the time being. And that they

can

> supply me with samples of the Cymbalta for a good while. When they

can't

> anymore - well, I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I

find I

> can't take on all my problems all at once - which is what I tend to

try and

> do - fix everything at once. So at least I'm thinking a little

better today

> and am only dealing with one thing at a time.

>

> Even though it took 2 days of melting - somebody is looking out for

me

> because an answer (sort of) has come. And I really, really

appreciate all

> of you.

>

> Teri (central WI)

>

>

>

>Oh, be sure you write your state legislators --- your state rep AND

your state senator. It is usually amazing how fast they can get

their staff to take care of a problem!!! --- You know, they want

your vote and the more they help you, their constituent, the more

likely you might be to vote for them!!! We learned how to use the

state legislators especially while my husband was working at one

historic site and then was transferred to another. He started the

new job in April, we found an apartment in May? And at the end of

July we closed on a house. The couple who had a shop that was

attached to our house, had the key so that if and when a moving

company would get there to give a bid on moving us, my husband's

former boss saw the moving truck and thought they were there to begin

the move. When she found the neighbor's adult son working and giving

the key to the individual from the moving company, she took OUR key

away from him and then decided to take a walk through of our messy

house! She then went back to office and was having so much fun

because she had left an empty soda can somewhere so that we would

know she had been the house. (we actually were living on the grounds

and the state was paying for our move!)

Well, we made a very unexpected and very fast trip from one end of

this state to the other to see if we could get a mover to come and

submit an estimate. No such luck!!

By October, I was buying new clothes as it was getting cold and one

of the people I worked with overheard me say I should call the

legislator's office and said " Do it! " Since we knew the state rep

and the state senator for that district, I called the rep's office

and asked if the rep was in and if so would she go in and tell him

that the Castle's wanted to know WHERE THEIR FURNITURE WAS!!

Fortunately, the rep was in his office having a meeting with the

state senator! My husband got a call from someone in the main office

of his department who said " we didn't know you knew so many people in

high places!!! " The moving company was there the next week and we

had all of our furniture and clothes!!!

So, they will do what they can to help you --- the aide may do the

leg work, but that's the best thing to do.

I even send letters to guys in Washington who don't let you email

them unless you ave a zipcode in their district.

So GO FOR IT!!