The 39th TPBM Perfect Timing - Summer's Here, Let's Chat Thread

misspix wrote in post #10748058
pfffffft. Like a wall and a roof will keep me away from a bundt


and

Maybe, and just maybe, I would share the holy bundt with you. Okay WTH, you are in on the HB. Knock twice then scratch at the back door but don't share the secret knock with anyone.

short5 wrote in post #10748077
Maybe, and just maybe, I would share the holy bundt with you. Okay WTH, you are in on the HB. Knock twice then scratch at the back door but don't share the secret knock with anyone.

K. knock twice, then scratch at the back door. No worries, I tell NO ONE *zips lips*

I was so thankful when my epilepsy meds finally went generic. Over the course of the company switching insurances, it went from $300 to $175 to $5 to $50 and now $7. All the rest of my meds are $4 or $7 a prescription too. But man the days when we were paying through the nose for them were sure tough.

*peeks through walls at bunt aura-ness*

What Z is really trying to say is the HB has been consumed in its entirety.

Permagrin wrote in post #10748101
I was so thankful when my epilepsy meds finally went generic. Over the course of the company switching insurances, it went from $300 to $175 to $5 to $50 and now $7. All the rest of my meds are $4 or $7 a prescription too. But man the days when we were paying through the nose for them were sure tough.

*peeks through walls at bunt aura-ness*

One of my meds is 15K or so a year but I pay About $2500. I can't complain.

Woolburr wrote in post #10748103
What Z is really trying to say is the HB has been consumed in its entirety.

There is that reserve bit just waiting consumption

Woolburr wrote in post #10748103
What Z is really trying to say is the HB has been consumed in its entirety.

good thing I brought some un-holy animal cookies. Proceeds to nibble off limbs.

short5 wrote in post #10748119
One of my meds is 15K or so a year but I pay About $2500. I can't complain.

There is that reserve bit just waiting consumption

oh gosh, that's incredible. How do they expect a normal person to afford that?

Permagrin wrote in post #10748101
*peeks through walls at bunt aura-ness*

HAHAHAHA!! Through my second glass of wine, I read that as 'bunt-assedness' !!!

Woolburr wrote in post #10748103
What Z is really trying to say is the HB has been consumed in its entirety.

Permagrin wrote in post #10748120
good thing I brought some un-holy animal cookies. Proceeds to nibble off limbs.

*brings limbs close to body, just as a precaution*

Permagrin wrote in post #10748125
oh gosh, that's incredible. How do they expect a normal person to afford that?

Really? They don't care. That is the bottom line. Prescription medication is a business, at its heart, not an altruistic endeavor.

Permagrin wrote in post #10748120
good thing I brought some un-holy animal cookies. Proceeds to nibble off limbs.

Permagrin wrote in post #10748125
oh gosh, that's incredible. How do they expect a normal person to afford that?

Like a lot of companies, if you are truly in financial hardship they have programs to give it for free or for in return for participating in surveys and stuff. Much of the MS drugs are relatively new and take a lot of research and expense in developing. There is really a lot of hope for a cure and they are not too too far off. Huge amounts of money are dumped into research. Once a good drug is developed and goes mainstream it will drop in cost.

misspix wrote in post #10748147
HAHAHAHA!! Through my second glass of wine, I read that as 'bunt-assedness' !!!



*brings limbs close to body, just as a precaution*

hahahaha

misspix wrote in post #10748152
Really? They don't care. That is the bottom line. Prescription medication is a business, at its heart, not an altruistic endeavor.

it's true. Sad but true.

short5 wrote in post #10748171


Like a lot of companies, if you are truly in financial hardship they have programs to give it for free or for in return for participating in surveys and stuff. Much of the MS drugs are relatively new and take a lot of research and expense in developing. There is really a lot of hope for a cure and they are not too too far off. Huge amounts of money are dumped into research. Once a good drug is developed and goes mainstream it will drop in cost.

wow. I'd hate to be a guinea fowl though (can't bear to say guinea pig lol) but on the other hand, we sort of are, every time they "try this to see if it will help". Gotta love "modern" science.

As usual, Z, your response is more thought out and reasonable than my knee-jerk 'people just suck' theory

And Terri is right, it is a business, not a charity. That also means they are motivated to improve drugs, make better ones, and in doing so make money. It is what drives the very good, fast pace, albeit expensive, development of new medicines..

misspix wrote in post #10748184
As usual, Z, your response is more thought out and reasonable than my knee-jerk 'people just suck' theory

No no no, dear, people DO suck, please don't get me wrong on that

short5 wrote in post #10747951
Chinese medicine dispensed by minimum wage pharmasits.....

I renewed one of my regular prescriptions last month, and it had always been a little blue pill. All of a sudden, it was a little green pill. I called the pharmacist and asked if that meant anything, and he assured me it did not. It was the shape and the letters on the pill itself that I needed to be concerned with, and they were correct. I then looked up the manufacturer, and it was an American company, but the pill was manufactured in India.

I now have images of the guy who makes my pills doing gymnastics on a pole. I have a whole new respect......