Drugs are 'spensive.

I'm not happy about my new health insurance. But at least I have heath insurance, right? I really shouldn't be complaining. But I'm going to anyway.

So with my new insurance I had to have prior authorization to get my lexapro. Which took about 5 days. Just long enough to require me to buy a few pills at cost to get by. $32.00 and several phone calls later my prior authorization is approved and I can go get my pills from the pharmacy. I go to the pharmacy after work only to be told it will be a $99 copay to get my pills. "What??" my voice says. "What the fucking hell?!?!" my brain says. Turns out I have a $200 deductible and $91 of what I pay for my lexapro will go toward that. Once it is met I still have to pay $51 for a months supply of my pills. Super frustrating.

I felt like I jumped through all these hoops the past few days just to get my freakin' refill only to find out it's going to cost an arm and a leg. I know it could be worse. It could be a lot more expensive. And it could be for a medication I needed for some really awful disease. It's not that bad. But it's just that it's bringing  back all those frustrations about being on lexapro in the first place. I start thinking about how if I didn't need the medicine I wouldn't be dealing with all this insurance crap right now. And then I get pissed of that I can't be anxiety free without a pill. So grrrrr.

But on the bright side tomorrow will be 365 days until I am Mrs. Brian Cordill. :o)