I just had a related experience. I've been out of a medication for a bunch of days, and today i finally was able to get myself to call the doctors office to ask for a refill. The receptionist in a tone told me "ok but you shouldn't wait till you're out of meds to ask for a refill, you should call in the refill when you're down to 5 pills left." Arg. As if needing to call in a refill hadn't been nagging on my mind daily for a month.

TBF she didn't know i have adhd, but still. It took a lot of restraint to just tell her "ok" instead of giving her a long explanation of the struggles i deal with.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there a long German word for the irony of having issues getting meds because of the thing the meds are treating?

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Germany makes new words by squishing preexisting words together so if they don't already they can quite easily make one

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Medical receptionists are literally the worst people for people like us to have to talk to