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I had a bit of a round and round about this using my mail order pharmacy. It all stemmed back to how the doctor wrote the script. So I had the pharmacist tell me how to write it and had the doctor do what they said. We got 3 boxes, each containing 2 Auvi-Q's and a trainer as a 90 day supply.
Perhaps something similar caused the confusion for your pharmacy?
Auvi Q gives me the willies. The more technology you have, the more that can go wrong. Our allergist at a major teaching hospital agrees. He will prescribe it if asked, but thinks the Epipen is more reliable. My teen and her friends are all used to the Epipen. Sooner or later the Auvi Q will malfunction, someone will be in anaphylaxis and the Auvi Q won`t talk as it is supposed to, there will be a fatality and it will get pulled. The Affordable Care Act plans won`t cover it anyhow.
Auvi Q gives me the willies. The more technology you have, the more that can go wrong. Our allergist at a major teaching hospital agrees. He will prescribe it if asked, but thinks the Epipen is more reliable. My teen and her friends are all used to the Epipen. Sooner or later the Auvi Q will malfunction, someone will be in anaphylaxis and the Auvi Q won`t talk as it is supposed to, there will be a fatality and it will get pulled. The Affordable Care Act plans won`t cover it anyhow.
I heart the AuviQ. DS hearts it. It is easy for teen boys to carry.
So, things have been really busy for me at work with year end. I didn't know the coupon was expiring yesterday. I really, really would have appreciated if those of you who were aware of this would have said something earlier in the week. Really.
Contemplating putting up the batsignal for Links help.
I have limited experience with Xopenex and nebulizers but enough to know cost and quality is a factor. For adults you can suck it up a bit more but for kids sometimes it makes a difference.
Auvi Q gives me the willies. The more technology you have, the more that can go wrong. Our allergist at a major teaching hospital agrees. He will prescribe it if asked, but thinks the Epipen is more reliable. My teen and her friends are all used to the Epipen. Sooner or later the Auvi Q will malfunction, someone will be in anaphylaxis and the Auvi Q won`t talk as it is supposed to, there will be a fatality and it will get pulled. The Affordable Care Act plans won`t cover it anyhow.
At Walmart they kept it on file for me last year.
Then you have a device that would work perfectly fine, but for the fact that the user does not know how to use it because they were relying on the voice to talk them through it.
Whereas both have the minute chance of not injecting when they are supposed to, the Auvi-Q has the additional risk of the voice part of it failing. Then you have a device that would work perfectly fine, but for the fact that the user does not know how to use it because they were relying on the voice to talk them through it. This is the reason that my daughter`s allergist and I both consider it less safe than the Epipen, more things that can go wrong, as I said in my earlier post.
Whereas both have the minute chance of not injecting when they are supposed to, the Auvi-Q has the additional risk of the voice part of it failing. Then you have a device that would work perfectly fine, but for the fact that the user does not know how to use it because they were relying on the voice to talk them through it. This is the reason that my daughter`s allergist and I both consider it less safe than the Epipen, more things that can go wrong, as I said in my earlier post.
I think this is a reasonable POV to consider ... it would probably not cause problems for active allergy folks like us :), but I could see a newbie maybe getting flustered if voice failed. I don't have an opinion yet on which I prefer ... sometimes I like to sit things out for a while and hear about other people's experiences. I do think some competition is good and may lead to better designs and more company responsiveness to consumer needs/preferences.