I thankfully have a doctor that recently stopped being stupid about this. Instead of fighting through calling in refills every fucking month to his office about things, he set one of the prescriptions up for half a year, the other for a full year, with 'only x per time period' or something.
Needless to say, pretty sure all of us are happier for it. Since I have no car, either one of my folks always had to pick the scrip up when they would go in (we all see the same guy) or my husband would have to wedge it in on one of his days off from work when he's even in the same state (one of which, the doctor's office is closed... )
One of the two will expire at the end of this month, but six months of not having to go through that song and dance? Fucking priceless. We plan to bring him a thank you card when we next go in, no joke.
Still nothing to help with the migraines, which I have to ask him about this go round, finally, since our insurance is finally seemingly stable(maybe... ?)
The disgruntlement part: almost all the women on one side of my family (father's mother's) get migraines. Literally ALL of us. Every single one. (Some also get cluster headaches, which is what the folks at the hospital were convinced I ended up with as well, lucky me!) But, well, I'm the one who had no insurance for decades, and <just points upward> the price point was too high to do anything about it.
The cousins: "OMG how did you not go to the doctor years ago and demand a prescription for X, Y, and Z?! I would never have been able to survive without it!"
Me: "I have only had insurance for a little over a year."
The cousins: "BUT HOW DID YOU NOT DO IT ANYWAY?!"
Me: "...because you were just bitching about how it's $200+ month after insurance whacks most of the price down? And we can't even afford anything near that even now with insurance?"
The cousins: "BUT HOW DID YOU NOT DO IT ANYWAY?!"
Me: . o O ( I dunno, magic pixies? And fuck you all so fucking much. )