WOW medicine is expensive

[PESteele 10+ year member]

as some might know my aunt has brain cancer and she starts chemotherapy and radiation 2marrow. The price for 31 once a day chemotherapy pills is $8,500, now thats redicioulous. Thank god for health insurance

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[supraman1379 10+ year member]

Yea medicine is very expensive. My step dad spends like 80 bucks for one perscription. And he has to refill them like once every two weeks. But he also has a ton of other stuf too. He has a broken back.

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

you mean for 31 pills?

I know my grandpa was on some kind of IV not to long ago, its like 1800 bucks a day, or treatment!!!...that's f0king insane.

sorry to hear about that though. and yes...thank God for health insurance...id be broke as hell right now with out it...mine is up to like almost 600/month.

 

[PESteele 10+ year member]

yeah 31 pills

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

Ya, thats just rediculous, I mean I spend about 40 bucks a week on insulin but 8500 bux for a month is **** rediculous., I wonder if it would still be that much if she didnt have insurance

 

[2loud4u 10+ year member]

Wow that is alot of money.

My meds are around 600 a month and I thought that was alot.

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

as some might know my aunt has brain cancer and she starts chemotherapy and radiation 2marrow. The price for 31 once a day chemotherapy pills is $8,500, now thats redicioulous. Thank god for health insurance

im on a 2 year chemo treatment plan and my doc said after it was all said and done it would be close to 1 million withouth health insurance. i have a bottle of anti nausea pills called zofran that costs 16 grand for a bottle of like 200. i remember you starting a thread about your aunt a while back, glad to know that she made it out of surgery ok.

 

[Phrozt 10+ year member]

insurance ftw...

 

[psych0ticnemes1 5,000+ posts]

im on a 2 year chemo treatment plan and my doc said after it was all said and done it would be close to 1 million withouth health insurance. i have a bottle of anti nausea pills called zofran that costs 16 grand for a bottle of like 200. i remember you starting a thread about your aunt a while back, glad to know that she made it out of surgery ok.

you have cancer?

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

you have cancer?

yep

cmon, trade amps with me, you know you want to.

 

[nVRuckus 5,000+ posts]

as some might know my aunt has brain cancer and she starts chemotherapy and radiation 2marrow. The price for 31 once a day chemotherapy pills is $8,500, now thats redicioulous. Thank god for health insurance

even with insurance I pay $30 per month for my thyroid medication.

 

[Railrocker 10+ year member]

Sorry bout your aunt. Ill think good thoughts for her. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Ya I think the drug companies charge whatever they think they can get out of people/insurance companies for their drugs. Of course a lot of money is spent in development of them.

Springy I never knew you had cancer. Good luck man, radiation is a mofo.

I didnt know how common cancer was but at my dads 4th of July party like 6 of the 40 people who was there had fought cancer and won. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[9512ds 5,000+ posts]

the bad thing about insurance companies covering medicine costs is that some insurance companies will only cover generic models and if itsd a new treatment there wont be a generic version out yet

 

[project f-150 10+ year member]

Pe good luck to your aunt and you to springy. I know how rough it can be. I finally just beat mine just about 2 months ago.

 

[9512ds 5,000+ posts]

my mother and aunt both had breast cancer and both beat it and my grandfather just beat prostate cancer as well

woot for cancer survivors

 

[nVRuckus 5,000+ posts]

My wife might have to have a historectemy(sp?) because she is at high risk of uteral cancer. they just removed 2 pollops a few weeks ago //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[9512ds 5,000+ posts]

My wife might have to have a historectemy(sp?) because she is at high risk of uteral cancer. they just removed 2 pollops a few weeks ago //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

well good luck man you know and we know she will pull through it