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Ok so I went to my Endo today and she gave me prescriptions for HRT. Which...I found out could only be filled in one pharmacy local to me. for 159 for just one of the scripts...50 for another and 10 for the last....I have two dollars to my name...

Why me....

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No insurance? Better check into a plan..if you don't have a pre existing condition and you are young,,insurance is cheap..You do have a job don't you? At least I hope you do,,,try the H.R.and see what your company offers.......

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Guest Elizabeth K

Walmart - that's where many go when prices get high elsewhere - your most expensive drug is apparently a brand name. You need to talk to your prescribing physician about practicality and affordability, and you MUST understand that everything to do with transitioning is EXPENSIVE!

There is no free ride.

Lizzy

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Ok so I went to my Endo today and she gave me prescriptions for HRT. Which...I found out could only be filled in one pharmacy local to me. for 159 for just one of the scripts...50 for another and 10 for the last....I have two dollars to my name...

Why me....

Ahh tis betta to be broke with HRT in hand...

Than to have money with frusration of a want unfulfilled Glass Hoppa.

Remember that sis,money can be made,but happines is at hand.

Biiiiig Warm Huuuugggzzzzz Young Sister.

Big Sister,

Angie

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Ok so I went to my Endo today and she gave me prescriptions for HRT. Which...I found out could only be filled in one pharmacy local to me. for 159 for just one of the scripts...50 for another and 10 for the last....I have two dollars to my name...

Why me....

Sweetie,

I know your pain. The cost of transitioning is high. This might be a good time to discuss the possibility of providing a fund that helps those in need to transition.

I have no real answers hon. I too am held back by finances.

HUGS and love

Brenda

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First of all I am constantly amazed by physicians who write scripts for patients that are unaffordable. I always wonder what planet they live on!!!

There are some options: You can check to see if your closest Walmart carries these drugs in their generic form in their formulary. In my community some of the other druggists will match their $4. price.

2nd option is to get on the patient assistance program----most drug companies have these for people who make under $24000 a year. They will provide a 3 month's supply of the drug by mail for free by mail and can be renewed by your physician. Third option is to shop on line for Canadian drug companies. US drug prices are inflated compared to the rest of the world. ( I have heard concerns about drugs that are manufactured in Asian countries like India, but actually the worst drug scams have been done here by US manufacturers---like making inhalers for asthma sufferers with no medication in them!) Hun I take a medication that if I were to pay retail full price for it is $1500 a month. I have medical insurance and it costs me a $30 a month co-pay.

BTW I think that a revolution in health care is on the horizon and this will include a big change in prescription costs generally in this country. I think it is coming soon.

ricka

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Ok so I went to my Endo today and she gave me prescriptions for HRT. Which...I found out could only be filled in one pharmacy local to me. for 159 for just one of the scripts...50 for another and 10 for the last....I have two dollars to my name...

Why me....

I got my first month of estradiol (recently, just switched from Premarin) from the grocery store pharmacist. List price $9. I get all the long term stuff from Express-scripts, using insurance, but the immediate supply when I get a new script is from the grocery store and the list price was tiny. This was probably a generic, I didn't bother to notice, but I think even name brand Premarin is very inexpensive now. More than estradiol, but not by a lot.

Allison

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Walmart - that's where many go when prices get high elsewhere - your most expensive drug is apparently a brand name. You need to talk to your prescribing physician about practicality and affordability, and you MUST understand that everything to do with transitioning is EXPENSIVE!

There is no free ride.

Lizzy

At walmart my Estrogen is $2 and so is the Spiro, I'm not on progesterone (and don't know if I will be) but medroxyprogesterone is only $2 as well

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