I was pretty relieved that the guys who rode with us got laid at the wedding (well, not literally but you know what I mean), bc its pretty much all they talked about on the way down there and I would have hated to hear all the bitching on the way back had it NOT happened lol. I was nervous about meeting my guy's whole family for the first time but everyone was really warm and welcoming, not to mention more focused on the wedding rather than anything else so WHEW! And thank goodness I only had to endure a few comments of "soooo....when are you two getting married? Hehehe!" I'm still at that stage in life where its an almost knee-jerk reaction to scream "NEVER!!!" and run in the opposite direction when I'm asked that question, but I'm working on a more diplomatic response, I swear.
Anyhoo, I got a rather nasty surprise the other day when I went to go pick up some pills at the pharmacy. For some retarded reason, my insurance wouldn't refill my birth control until Monday even though I ran out of it on Saturday. I had tried to pick up the refill before we left on the trip so I wouldn't miss any pills since I take them continuously, meaning I skip the sugar pills and go straight into a new pack. I've explained this to the insurance before, and so has my doctor, but this time I was just like "Fuck it" and said that I would be back on Monday to get them. When I did go back, there was a new pharmacist I hadn't seen before and I guess he pays more attention to what he's doling out to people because the girl ringing me up had to bring him up to talk to me for a second. Apparently, neither of my doctors and none of the other pharmacists thought it all that important to let me know that I should NOT take my birth control at the same time as I take my Topamax, as the Topamax decreases the effectiveness of the Pill. Let me just add that I've been taking both these pills at the same time for the past, oh I don't know, about 2-3 months.
I pretty much looked just like this when the pharmacist dropped that bomb on me:
I mean, REALLY! How the fuck does that kind of information just slip on by for so long?! Granted, I should have read the information packet that came with the Topamax more closely but thats some pretty damn serious stuff right there. I'm putting a lot of trust in these doctors and pharmacists to give me as much knowledge as possible about these meds, and then its like "Oops, we forgot to tell you that this medication may cause your birth control to completely fail; SOWEE!!!" Ugh! I HIGHLY doubt I'm preggers but I'm a worrier to the extreme so I'm going to pickup a pregnancy test today at lunch just to make sure. How embarrassing if I were to be one of those women who has no idea she's knocked up until she's giving birth.
I kinda want to call and yell at my doctors, but honestly I just don't have the energy to. I don't really like my gyno all that much to begin with, and as of late have been seriously thinking of switching my well-woman care over to a midwife center. I could call my neurologist and complain, but I think the Topamax is really starting to do its thing and I'm not to keen on stopping it right now only to have to start something else, ya know? The pharmacist said to just space out the time between the pills, so now I have to start taking my BC at like 2pm which is pretty weird. I might talk to the gyno anyways and see if there's another kind of BC I could get on that wouldn't be such a pain in the ass.
God, what a bitch it is to have to rearrange so many things all because of these stupid ass migraines.
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