My doctor recently changed my miagrane medicine and when I went to get it filled it was $149 for six pills. That's a little steep I think but when I have one of those really bad headaches it is worth it to me at the time. I can't beleive that a pill is so damn expensive. It makes me wonder how people who can't afford that amount of money actually deal with their headaches.

I wish I could just give medicine to anyone who needed it but could'nt afford it. I don't have miagranes everyday , maybe once or twice a month but I have had them so bad that I've had to go to the emergency room and the pills are quiet cheap compared to what one trip to the ER would and has cost me.

for six pills?,
jeez,
they must be crazy powerful.
thank god i don't suffer from headaches.

wow thats expencive


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That sucks. I use to get them a lot when I was kid. Do get the visual disturbances with it or is just a raging headache?

Any way have you tried finding your trigger?

When I started to get them as an adult again I narrowed my recent ones down to aspartame (fake sugar found in most sugar free products). Try keeping a diary of foods you eat and things you do, that can often help narrow down what is triggering them.


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Geeze dont you guys have a medicine subsidising list thingy??? like where the government pays for part of the medicine so that when you buy it, its cheaper??


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Nope.

The government has medicare and medicaid, which it tells the pharmacies which drugs they will pay for and how much of that drug they will pay for. They do not regulate the drug industry on how much they can charge for a drug. And most of Americans are not on these government health assistance plans, so it does not apply to them.

Private insurance companies also tell pharmacies what drugs they will cover and how much of the drug cost they will cover, and then make their clients pay a copayment to help offset the cost (usually 15 to 25 dollars depending on which inusrance company it is).

And if you don't have the Government assistance or private insurance (self owned or from your employeer), well then your screwed if you need medications, especially if they are only available as brand name. Most of those cost hundreds of dollars for a months supply, some cost hundreds of dollars for a few pills, and some cost thousands of dollars for one pill.

You don't even want to know how much some of the medications cost in the hospital. There are some drugs that cost over $10,000 per injection and the patient will need several injections.

So in short, a big problem in the US is prescription drug costs. Is that a problem, some say no, most say yes. What comes of it will be interesting with the newly elected democratic majority in Congress. They hate the drug companies and are looking for big wins to out shine the republicans, so decreasing drug costs will be a big win for them.


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wouldnt be cheaper to buy big bottle of a strong spirit and drink your self unconsious until it passed


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Ok I seem to have a lot to address here. First of all I am taking Imitrex for my miagranes and I also take Topamax. THe imitrex is the one that cost ONE HUNDRED FORTY NINE DOLLARS for six pills. The thing is I'm a business owner so I don't have goverment provided insurance and I don't have insurance from my job. I have to purchase our insurance myself and I do but it does'nt cover every medicine and at this time there is no generic for the imitrex.

Drinking would not help my headache , I have in the past tried everything. I've been to the emergency room
on several occasions, I've even been hospitalized for the severe headaches so I simply have no choice but to take the meds the doctor prescribed.

The bright side of this is that I don't have to take the imitrex until the headache has just started so it's not like I have to take it everyday or even every week.

I've been in the hospital several times and been studied to try to find the triggers for my headaches. I've been told I have a co-dependancy and when things are going s**tty in my life , my head does'nt hurt , when things get better and everything seems to be ok then I develop a headache, thus meaning I strive well under pressure , take the pressure off and I have a headache. I don't put much merit in to that diagnosis and my present doctor does'nt buy it either.

Medicine is just to friggin expensive here in the U.S. this is true. I mean ,you hear all of the time about people buying it from canada and other places in the world to save money.

I have several medicines that I have to take daily and most of them are quiet expensive. I just deal with it the best way I can and every now and again I need to vent about it to keep my self from blowing up the pharmacy. I'm just kidding , I'd never do that .

Thank God for the NHS
149 is extremly steep id probaly suffer the migraines, or find some absinthe

My friend has migrains that bad they knock her out for three or four days,they say the tablets she needs Cost One Thousand Dollars,her daughter went to America for student exchange so she hunted around for this tablet and in the usa it would cost only one hundred and fifty dollars ?? Migrains are so debilitating.


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Yeah those pills are worth their weight in gold when you're in that much pain. I guess the supplier thinks they are worth their weight in gold too.