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So true I have a great relationship with my o2 delivery drive (Dave) I can ring him anytime day and night and if he is working he will drop everything he is doing and drop me off new o2 tanks if I'm getting low

.....sorry, this is a further thread jack...and liable to be missed by folks who should see it....but, sigh..i need to say..... ....adding a little bit to my "regular" and playing the "game" comments above. it happened to be convenient so i picked up and delivered my own O2 tanks...they loved it, saving them money and hassles.... AND, for me, keeping a face to the "file". also, lugging your own tank(s) with their frigging name on it makes it REALY hard to deny that they "carry tanks". the downside here is that developing a relationship with the delivery drivers can be immensely beneficial. those folks see and hear and "get" the patients at the other end of these tanks. there is many a clusterhead who can attest to delivery drivers going far above and beyond for them. also, never hurts to poke your head into the back room and introduce yourself to the techs who fill tanks and prep equipment..a thank you goes a long ways with folks who rarely see YOU.....

I thought it could be something like that, but she made it sound like they simply don’t carry oxygen tanks at their supply…and I was like “well I have one of your M tanks at my house right now LOL”

...woo-hoo kat...good for you....clusterheads kick ass!! ...your experience is so NOT uncommon that it boggles the mind. a business whose express purpose is to provide oxygen to scripted patients yet acting like ..."well, but not YOU"....SMFH.... ....ya gotta look at it as a "game"...i guess i learned it from negotiating business contracts, but it is a lot harder to blow off an anonymous caller or paper requestor than a real live (in our case incredibly HURTING) person. made it a point to meet and engage with a seemingly endless treadmill of O2 shop managers..... so they knew me as a person and not a "file". i aint charming, but the consequences of failure were so high i did my damndest.... with pleasant discussions and reams of medical citation documents. not saying this will always work, sometimes the corporate walls are impregnable....but it worked for me more times than not. ESPECIALLY important, just like getting that first HA specialist neuro appointment, is becoming a "regular". once achieved the hurdles can just magically melt away. and if they don't....clusterheads don't give up....the stakes are just too high......

Update: I spoke to the manager at the O2 supply as calmly as I could. Finally got my script after hours of back and forth. It is seriously distressing how much effort it takes to get simple things so we can live without pain

.....did this with Lincare in CA, OK, NV, WA many times with no hassle or extra charge...just remember the mask and regulator.....

The anticipated completion date of the Yale psilo/CH study is June of this year.

This is the kind of nonsense that has me never having a tank yet in my life even though I'm on year 24 of CH.