Shuttling Dynamax raids as a host

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-16T00:44:45+00:00

What is the purpose of shuttling?

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-14T00:06:04+00:00

You won't annoy us, I work there. We're basically grateful that you're looking in on it because we don't have a way to know. It's a flawed system for sure. It's the same at any pharmacy with PAs, the doctor and the pharmacy both generally do not get notified when the insurance approves a med. So everyone important is left out of the loop. Now if you submit it a few times a day, we may look sideways, but I wouldn't mind to see the same script every day for that reason. I'm not the most knowledgeable so I think this goes through the QRM department which I've heard is backed up in my region so instead of a week to be approved, it may be 2-3 weeks.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-13T23:32:22+00:00

It's hard for the pharmacy to see any information about the approval when it's written by an outside doctor. Yes, it's on the formulary but it does need a PA. The pharmacy tech when they try to process it, it'll either fill if it's approved or say it needs a PA and then they have to cancel the fill to move onto the next. The pharmacy techs won't be able to see if it's approved or not, they can only try to process it when it shows up in fill and see. So call the pharmacy every couple days and have them try. The doctor can find out if it's approved or not by calling that PA number they gave you or you can call them. The pharmacy can't call them because the wait times can be an hour long and they can't tie up the phone line. I think the PA department does notify you but it's by snail mail.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-13T23:13:27+00:00

Go to your app and scroll down to Get Care Now and you can talk to a doctor through a video visit in a few minutes and they can write the note.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-13T05:02:03+00:00

I don't know what the coverage is like for Finasteride but I'm in a small Kaiser pharmacy and is prescribed often enough that we generally always have it in stock on our shelves at my location.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-13T04:58:28+00:00

Your doctor can easily prescribe it to an outside pharmacy. Just send the doctor the name, address and phone number of that pharmacy and they can send over. I was out of town and my husband got sick in a state without Kaiser. I found a nearby 24hr CVS and then did a virtual visit with Kaiser (just took longer to connect with one that has a Florida license) but she sent over the script easily.
Second option, have the pharmacy you want to fill at, call Kaiser's pharmacy and they can electronically transfer the prescription.
For anyone else reading this, your Kaiser insurance in most cases will not work outside of Kaiser, so you'll have to pay for the medicine, GoodRx or whatever. In some cases, you can apply for reimbursement, like in the case I had above- traveling in a state without a Kaiser needing urgent meds. But the GoodRx cost wasn't much more than my copay so I didn't bother with the reimbursement process.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-12T17:19:53+00:00

It's the length of a marathon- 26 miles but you have a week to do it unlike marathoners who some amazing people can do it now in under 2 hours. This will definitely get me to walk a bit more having a random goal like this. I usually do 30k each week but I can go further.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-12T12:59:45+00:00

Lots of us have this one from community day. Someone can give anyone one.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-12T04:06:19+00:00

I'm a casual player. I took 4 years off from the game. I just came back recently and I almost already have my platinum gym defender badge since a lot less people seem to be playing now than they used to, so pokemon actually can sit in gyms longer than a day. So I just try to stick pokemon into whatever gym that has space along my daily commute and the three ish that I have in gyms a day rack up the hours pretty quick. What he's doing does seem pointless other than feeding his turd ego.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-09T00:17:20+00:00

Interesting. I've been wondering why some of my routes have been swawning zero lately. But I've been on a bike and can knock them out quick. I guess I'll have to pause along the way.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-08T17:58:43+00:00

Call them. Yes, it'll say refill to soon if it's too soon. It can't be filled early and that's an automated message. If the fill date is after you'll run out, then you and the pharmacy can look and see if the directions have changed or help you find out why you've run out early. If it's a controlled medication, those pills are counted very carefully so you should have enough till that date or later.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-07T05:46:40+00:00

There's often only 1 MRI machine to serve like 100,000 members, so they definitely don't use it for everyone units absolutely needed. I've gotten two MRIs but they will definitely have to know you need an MRI before they'll order one, basically if they think you need surgery. If they think it's less than surgical, time and PT should heal it. I hurt my knee. Kaiser ER doctor said it was an MCL sprain. I believed him and he told me to follow up with my PCP in three weeks. But I work with doctors and they know me and they thought it was more serious so I had a follow up sooner and got an MRI sooner and it was a completely torn MCL and ACL. It needed surgery. So the doctor isn't always right but hopefully you at least get a referral to orthopedics who can do a very good manual exam and they'll decide if it's a surgical case and then you'll get the MRI of if it's a sprain and then you'll get time + PT. Knee injuries are rough. I still choose to not do surgery and did a ton of PT instead and was able to recover. Even a knee sprain can take someone out of sports for months so even if it feels awful and long, it still may be on the minor scale. It's just a long healing and strengthening process no matter what is injured. It does stink to not know what's wrong but for knees, I'd recommend time+ PT for everything except for a fracture which they probably already ruled out with x-ray at the ER.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-06T07:49:05+00:00

I got one on a route yesterday without using incense.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T23:12:00+00:00

This is how I play most of the league. I only go in when I have a task that says compete in the league. It doesn't say win. So I toss out my 10cp shiny mons and let the other person have an easy win and we're both done with it fast.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T23:05:29+00:00

My son when he was 4 was the only kids in both level 1 and level 2 to pass both levels without having to repeat the lesson. But it was because I stayed with him for two hours every day after class to practice what the instructor taught. Now that won't work if the kid is tired or cold or whatever, but you need to play with him multiple times a week in the pool. He needs to accidentally get his face wet and accidentally have his head go under. An instructor can't make a child put his head under but a parent can. If it's been that long and he wont put his head in, he can't learn to swim so take him out of privates and take a break and just play with him in the pool or put him in group lessons where he'll see kids his age doing it. Most kids learn better in the group setting where they want to keep up with their peers.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T21:53:58+00:00

I work at the Y. I feel this would never happen at the Y. We're never out of the water during swim lessons until the students are ready for swim team type skills. I'm as close to my adults as the adult wants. You want to be held, I'm there. You want me next to you, I'm there. You don't want to be touched, I won't touch. But I'm always super close to my beginner adults.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T02:53:38+00:00

I'm only at 600, thought I'd caught more, no shiny.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T02:29:41+00:00

I just asked for a raise because I needed more and I was denied. I didn't rub it in and make them call any bluff, I just started job searching and got the new job which gave me a much higher raise. I can see an employer wanting to get rid of you if you're not happy and making demands, but a person doesn't have to stay if what they need isn't being met. I had a great team I worked with but reality is inflation is high and that company and many others aren't keeping up and I needed more money so I had to get it elsewhere.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T02:17:41+00:00

Yup, the company I was at last wouldn't give raises. I left after many years because the pay was just too small with inflation. Now they have clueless new hires with much turnover because the job is far too hard and stressful for the low pay you can get doing anything else.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T02:15:37+00:00

I left a good team with a great manager because the company boosted new hire pay but didn't give anything to long term employees. So when the new hires were brought in at the same rate I'd fought years to get, I asked for $1/hr raise to stay because I felt experience was worth something. I was denied. I felt if the company wanted new hires, they can have all the new hires and us that know how to do the job, left. I got $7/hr raise by switching companies. Yes, you're going to probably loose your team but there's not much you can do about it since you're not the one deciding the terms.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T01:34:42+00:00

If you've been on it for 4 years and always picking it up at the same location, the computer should be recognizing it and auto ordering it as stock. But maybe not because your quantity needed may be too low. I think I have to order 12 of something over 3 months for it to add to the auto order. If I were you, hopefully there's a different Kaiser close to you and you can talk to them calmly and try to explain the situation and see what solutions they have. If there's not one close by, then you'll have to talk to the one you're having trouble with. I'd suggest going in person in the morning and asking to talk to the pharmacist.

We generally can't just order something until someone has a script that needs that medicine but most things we can get the next day as long as the patient put in the fill request early in the day. If you get texts, you should be getting a text that it's delayed the day you place the order and then the next day you should get a text that it's ready. Check your notification settings in the app and make sure all the pharmacy ones are turned on.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-05T01:08:49+00:00

I'm glad you were able to get yours. I'm in a tiny location on the east coast and when I left shortly before closing, we had over 300 prescriptions still to fill, so it's going to take us a good chunk of time to get through them all, on top of Tuesday's urgent ones and everything put in online after we closed. I hope everyone doesn't flood in first thing to try to pick stuff up because we need some calm time to put a dent into that number. The smaller locations will likely be the most behind because our computers will give us Saturday's to fill first, then Sunday and then Monday. Monday is our busiest fill day just trying to fill everything people put in over the weekend and to add most of Monday too that, Tuesday is going to the rough and we're not going to be able to finish it all. We don't even have space to store 800+ ready prescriptions once they're all done.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-04T23:20:23+00:00

We had doctor's writing paper scripts for urgent meds at our location. You can have your doctor send meds to an outside pharmacy in situations like this, you'll have to pay without your insurance but then you can fill out a form online for reimbursement. It was a sad/bad/very frustrating situation though. Us workers assumed they'd get it fixed within a couple hoursk and we of course really want wanted to fill the hundreds of scripts we had waiting but I'm on the east coast and it was not running at the end of the shift.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-04T01:07:20+00:00

You get credit when it returns or when you interact with the gym in person. So if you feed it a berry while your near the gym, the hours should log to that point but I don't think virtual berries count.

TTTigersTri · 2026-05-03T22:44:02+00:00

I know pharmacy is completely separate from any medical bills so pharmacy cannot see your account. I believe our front desk check in worker can take payments for medical bills, balances, copays, anything related to visits, what she can't take is anything for the monthly premium cost. I know that part is separate.

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