Advair Costs / Discounts / Coupons
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giant pain in my wallet (at $175 per month for the Discus 50/250).
I'm looking at Canadian pharmacy options - $100 is their price. But
before I start that - I was told by my pharmacist there are often
coupons/discounts available. Does anyone know about these - where to
get them, how frequently the are available, and how much of a discount
they provide?
Thanks
PS - I am also now interested in educating myself about drug company.
Any recommendations for websites with such info - I'd prefer a site
with facts and data - as opposed to opinions/rants.
Dragonfly
> I just started on Advair and it is great for my COPD, but I now have a
> giant pain in my wallet (at $175 per month for the Discus 50/250).
>
> I'm looking at Canadian pharmacy options - $100 is their price. But
> before I start that - I was told by my pharmacist there are often
> coupons/discounts available. Does anyone know about these - where to
> get them, how frequently the are available, and how much of a discount
> they provide?
I have heard from my doctor that the company who makes advair might be
one of the companies that provides free meducations to those who need
the drugs but can't afford them... My partner (Dx with fibro) gets
celebrex that way.
Advair, thankfully, is fully covered by my insurance (the free county-
run program; if you're poor enough, you don't even have a co-pay),
orhterwise I very well might be dead by now, given the direction my
asthma attacks were going before I started taking the advair...
Which also makes me think, perhaps you could get drug assistance from
your local government? No idea where you live (except not Canada!),
but in California there is a county-run programs designed to help
people at varying places on the poverty spectrum, from those very sick
homeless people to low-middle class people who can't quite make ends
meet with the added burden of expensive medications... Something to
look in to perhaps.
> Thanks
>
> PS - I am also now interested in educating myself about drug company.
> Any recommendations for websites with such info - I'd prefer a site
> with facts and data - as opposed to opinions/rants.
On the cardboard box of the advair I get (though mine is the 500/50,
might be different...) there's a website and phone number you can call
to get more in-depth information on advair and on the company that
makes it.
Me, I just went to my uni's medical library and started browsing the
recent medical journals. But, not everyone has such access, and I
know few people who would have enough biological science and/or health
science vocabulary to understand the articles, so this may not be the
best suggestion. :)
*Dragonfly*
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