And as if my day weren't already sucking big hairy monkey balls...

[kellinator]

I just got an automated voice mail from the mail-order prescription company my employer uses. The computerized voice says they can't fill my prescription because it didn't say what the strength was supposed to be.

...YOU IDIOTS!! It's fucking Ortho-Evra! It's a patch! That you put on your ass! It doesn't come in strengths! Even a layman like me knows that!

...Motherfucking fucktards.

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[sujata.livejournal.com]

Alas, you are, as always, surrounded by idiots.

You have my sympathy!

*hugses*,
your friend
Molly

P.S. Any chance you'll be able to make it for the game Sunday? Scott says this will be the last of the reality bombs. We just might get our own reality back. Or whatever passes for reality, with us...

[sujata.livejournal.com]

P.P.S. And girl, I haven't talked to you in, like, for.evah. You and Michael can't be doing the horizontal tango every night. Don't make me start calling you every day and reading you... 'cause you know I can read, boo. ;-)

Love you, miss you,
*warm hug*,
Molly

[bossieboots.livejournal.com]

Personally, I just like to say "asspatch."

[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

I just had this godawful visual of how they would make those in different strengths:

"Okay, so you got the standard one, that you slap on your ass, for regular women...then you got the Big-Ass Extra-Strength Super-Heavy Duty one, that you wear like a sarong. Extra protection, you know, for hoes."

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am howling...

Now that I've quit laughing...

[cotharyus.livejournal.com]

Not at you - but because somehow....well, it was either laugh or cry. The comments above mine didn't help any...especially about sizes and stuff...too much. What I really wanted to say is, I need someone to take a picture of me that's as ...snark'dified as the one you used for this post. It just speaks volumes. I could use that for a post and not even type anything, and feel better...

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

This must be the same computer that blithely informed me that I should be careful of drug interactions and side effects - on the perscripton for my son's VAPORIZER.

[blueingenue.livejournal.com]

I dare you to fill out the form again with strength = 1 asscheek.

[sujata.livejournal.com]

I second that. >:-)

[stevenglassman.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm pretty certain that there are different strengths, even for that. (Not that I'm an expert, I'm only the son of a pharmacist. I've been drafted into helping with clerical work a few times, though, and I'm always mind-boggled by how many different strengths and versions there are of most things. Eight bottles for one product. Caplets, suspensions, asspatches... )

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Can't tell you about the med in question, but I know that patches for, say, phentanyl DO have varying strengths. I know this because my mother made heavy use of phentanyl patches after her chemo.

[polychromatic22.livejournal.com]

As there are differing strengths of pills (my doctor put me on a medium dose after I got high blood pressure from being on high dose which I had switched to from low dose because it was messing with my sex drive), I would definitely guess that there are differing strengths of patches. What suprises me is the idea that they wouldn't have seperate names, the differing pill doses do tend to. But that might simply be to keep the "patch" family of dose strengths straight in people's minds and to make marketing easier.

[atomicnumber51.livejournal.com]

Ortho-Evra does *not* come in varying strengths.

The prescription system that called you is dumb. Call them, and you should be able to get a real person to override the stupid system check and send your stuff out.