I've been on T for about half a year now, and recently doing my own injections has been really difficult mentally so I'm trying to switch to gel. I was supposed to start gel this past Wednesday, but for some reason the prior auth that my doctor's office says was approved was never received by the pharmacy, and the only way I could figure that out was by playing messenger pigeon and wasting half an hour calling back and forth between the two. FINALLY, I get a helpful receptionist at my doctor's office that says she'll get in touch with the pharmacy to try and fix the problem. I get a call from the pharmacy an hour later, and they tell me exactly what I just told the receptionist as if they were the geniuses that solved the problem. Yikes. It's nearly a week later and I've heard nothing????? like everybody collectively just shrugged and gave up on trying to fix it???? I've given up on doing all the work of making phone calls myself. Now, because I expected to be on gel by now, I'm late on my dose, and because of other times pharmacies have screwed me over it feels like I'm late on my dose more often than I'm on time. My cycle has come back which is hell mentally, especially with the start of the fall term. Honestly, sometimes I feel like stopping T all together because it feels like every time I call to get a new prescription (yes, my shitty insurance will only cover a 28 day supply so I have to call my doctor every two weeks to ask for a new T prescription) something goes wrong or I end up having to hound people with phone calls to make sure they do their job. T was supposed to bring me happiness, but instead it steals away so much of my damn time. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful, but I always laugh when I see just how goddamn difficult it is to get my T compared with how easy it is whenever I need to refill a different prescription.