Re: Medication assistance programs

[Guest guest]

If you have no insurance, there are programs through the Drug manufacturers that

will pay for your medication for free. Ask your doctor about it, or contact the

manufacturer of your meds.

[Guest guest]

Marta wrote:

> If you have no insurance, there are programs through the Drug manufacturers

that will pay for your medication for free. Ask your doctor about it, or contact

the manufacturer of your meds.

>

>

Marta,

This is right and you can go to each manufacturers website and they have a

section for how to do that, phone numbers or contacts. For example, I went to

the Lyrica website and along with their medication they gave this information:

Together Rx Access™

Program overview

Savings on many branded medicines through the pharmacy

Call: 1-

Visit the website

Partnership for Prescription Assistance

Program overview

Access to more than 475 patient assistance programs.

Call: 1-888-4PPA-NOW (1-)

Visit the website

I have found information by typing in free medication, ask your Doctor for

samples, pain medication usually are not left as samples so contacting the

manufacturer is the best bet.

Bennie

[Guest guest]

The only med I'm on that is expensive is my Endocet and I get the generic, and I

found a pharmacy that's half the price for it than others. My others are quite

cheap, although I would like to switch from Celexa (I hate the side effects but

it's $4 a month) but haven't because of high cost of others. The only other one

I take is generic xanax as needed for anxiety attacks. IT's not much, maybe $20.

Do you think there is help for generics?

--- Marta wrote:

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> If you have no insurance, there are programs through the Drug manufacturers

that will pay for your medication for free. Ask your doctor about it, or contact

the manufacturer of your meds.

>

[Guest guest]

There's another possibility too...because I'm SO low income, I'm part of

the Low Income Assistance program, which means I don't pay a monthly premium

for the Humana drug stuff and I only pay a $2.50 copay for most meds.

Maybe that's something you can ask your covering company about, what

assistance they have for Low Income?

Medicare will NOT pay for the oxycontin, however, insisted I try morphine

(which knocked me out to such a degree that it's unacceptable), and now I

have to try a Duragesic patch, and if THAT's unacceptable, they'll pay for

the oxycontin. The oxycontin if roughly $130-150, depending upon various

promotions--which is BIZZARE, isn't it!--but the reason I want it is that it

DOES last for several hours which means I can get a decently solid sleep,

and without that sleep...well, you know THOSE effects!

love,

Helena

[Guest guest]

>Helena wrote:

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> Medicare will NOT pay for the oxycontin, however, insisted I

try morphine (which knocked me out to such a degree that it's unacceptable),

and now I have to try a Duragesic patch. If THAT's unacceptable, they'll pay

for the oxycontin.

>The Oxycontin if roughly $130-150, depending upon various promotions--which is

BIZZARE, isn't it!

Helena,

That is why I stated people really need to contact the SSI office themselves and

when the denied my fried her SSI payment they mentioned she could appeal and I

had just written three appeals for her Son through his Special Education

programs and won.

I said I would help them and followed the guidelines and found out all about the

medical necessity program which is part of the low income program as she needed

someone to stay with her and if her husband had to quit his job as he could not

afford it. They would qualify for the SSI program so they approved her for the

Medical Necessity Program based on the doctors instruction and justification

that she had dementia so bad and turns gas on to cook all hours of the night and

almost blew them up. We presented the documentation of their dementia as her MRI

had brain plaques so it can be done with work and justification.

Just like your Oxycontin, you could not take the other drugs on the formulary ,

so you were allowed Oxycontin. Depending on the program, you Doctor might have a

form signed yearly as I take Provigel and it takes a justification letter and

they can call that in and my Father does this with his plavix so it can be paid,

the Doctor writes the justification and turns it in so keep copies of all your

information in a three ring binder.

Bennie

{Does oxycodone work for you ?

[Guest guest]

> Does oxycodone work for you ?

Yes, pretty well. I do have breakthrough (I think it's called )pain, but

considering I've been on it probably 2 years I'm happy that I don't have some

insane tolerance. Before that I had tried Hydrocodone, which I thought didn't

help at ALL until I didn't take it- but WITH it I still was in tears and unable

to have any level of quality of life- I built a FAST tolerance, it made me very

cranky and I could just pass out sitting up, so no WAY on that.

Then Lyrica, and let me tell you, that was HORRIFIC. I have no memories of the

time I took it. I had to have someone with me at all times, I slept for days, my

mom said I tried to start a fire, I was incredibly intent on killing myself- in

other words, I had very bad side effects, lol.

When my husband was so sick, and before I had finally gotten into pain

management, he gave me some of HIS pain med (I know that's wrong, but the pain

was unbearable and I had no money to get back to my regular doc) and it helped

but made me very sleepy. So, I guess my point is, I'm scared to try anything

else, because I'm scared it won't help and I'll be stuck with it.