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I hate to keep going on about this but I just realized again that the doctor and staff at the clinic never tried to gauge my pain level. Usually when you come in with pain the first thing they ask is where you rate your pain on a scale from 1 to 10. I’m hovering between a 6 and a 7 depending on what’s happening but I was given basically an over the counter drug for mild pain.

I may go see a doctor again but not this one. I’m afraid it may actually kill me.

glyndarling:

quatorz:

erykahisnotokay:

runawayhurricane:

totalharmonycycle:

southernrepublicangirl:

Ah the free market at work.
(Similar to when I went to CVS to pickup a 90$ prescription and they had their own generic version for 7.99).

This is important!
Tell your Friends.

I can’t believe some insurances quit covering them 😐

From Slate:

The generic Adrenaclick will cost $109.99 for two doses, compared with $649.99 for the same amount of drug in an EpiPen. That’s good news, both for financial and safety reasons: STAT reported last year that some parents and institutions had begun filling up syringes with epinephrine as a cost-cutting measure, a DIY solution that could pose great risk to the children who may have eventually needed injections. A more affordable alternative will help ensure safer epinephrine injections.

That’s assuming, though, that the people who need these devices know exactly what to ask for when they’re sitting in their doctors’ offices. Otherwise, they’ll still be stuck with the overpriced product. Here’s why: The mechanism by which Adrenaclick injects the drug is slightly different from EpiPen’s mechanism, so the Food and Drug Administration has ruled that the two are not therapeutically equivalent. That distinction is important because it means a prescription for an EpiPen cannot be filled with Adrenaclick. If you want the cheaper option, you have to have an Adrenaclick prescription.

You must ask your doctor for an Adrenaclick prescription! 

I also found a coupon from Impax on 0.15mg and 0.3mg epinephrine injection, USP auto-injectors, which appear to be the generic version of Adrenaclick; these coupons cover up to $100 per pack for 3 packs of these injectors (6 total injectors).

Some customers may be automatically eligible for $100 off the retail price thus only paying $10 for a pack, but this may be good backup for those who for whatever reason do not meet those requirements.

Spread the word.  If we make it unprofitable for these a-holes to buy the rights to old medicine and jack up the prices than it will quit happening.  

@funnylori

Source: lawschoolprincess

It’s not that I can’t handle pain. It’s that I sucked it up and did something very uncomfortable in the understanding that something would be done about my pain. But she basically told me to just wait it out, even though I’ve already been waiting a month, and gave me nothing to effectively deal with the pain.

So basically I exposed myself to a great deal of discomfort and gave up the few hours of mental rest I get a day for nothing. And it’s upsetting.

And now I’m thinking the only way for me to do anything is to get a second opinion which is basically starting over from scratch and I can’t do that, mentally or financially.

It especially bothers me that the doctor assumed I couldn’t have a tear based on my age. But people have been telling me I’m too young to be tired for years and I’m and I’m exhausted 24/7 so we’ve pretty much demolished that notion haven’t we?