Medications and PCP Care?

SFC Carol Braden — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:17:58 -0400

After 7 months why do I not have all my medications? Tried to get care are the VA women clinic everything I was told would be done was not on my first visit, in fact most of it was turned so I had to do it myself, like get my medical records send to clinic. I started Feb 2020 to get my medications from VA. It has be a fight to whole way and I still do not have one of them. The one I do not have yet is not on the formality, the two that is on the list I can not take, one I am allergic the other interacts with one of my other medications. PCP has not did the paperwork required to get my medication I can take(was told it was going to be done). It is 7 months and the paperwork has not be completed for me to get my medication. I can not get status on getting the med and no one will answer my questions on the portal. How can I a new PCP in a totally different clinic? Tried to file a complaint and patient relations just wanted to return to the doctor and clinic that will not do anything. Plus one of the medications I take for blood pressure was just up and changed the way I take it from twice a day to just once a day. Well that send my blood pressure to stroke levels had to take my emergency medications because of the change. Why was the medications changed?

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 24 at 2020 8:01 AM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:01:01 -0400

I wish you luck. The VA is always a crapshoot. some are really good, some are really bad and some are in between. My daughter has never had any problems with the VA but when I got off active duty the VA totally dropped the ball on a deployment related injury. I wound up going to a private doctor and using my own insurance because the VA told me the next available appointment for an orthopedic eval was 9 months away.