Posted by headachequeen on December 24, 2004, at 16:42:33
In reply to Re: Topamax and metabolism, posted by bridgey1128 on December 23, 2004, at 16:46:39
> Kat to answer your question, I got the part!! Yay! As for Topomax as the sole mood stabilizer, it's going to have to do because I found out that I have a $2000 cap on my drugs for my insurance. I broke down and cried. Luckily it was at the END of this year and not in the middle of I would have had to just stop taking it. If I had KNOWN that the 25mg pills were so much more FREAKING expensive I would have just stuck with the 200mg tablets!! That one prescription is $500!!!!! I only found out because they were trying to make me pay $200 something dollars and I was like..what? SO I called and found out I was over my cap. I had no idea I HAD one! If I stay with the 200mg tablets I think I will be ok. That prescription is only $135. OMG!! Can you believe the difference?? They really do pay by the pill. I REALLY wish they had told me that. I usually only have to pay a copay. That is just what the insurance company is billed. Boy I sure am glad that my mom in law is a nurse and can get me my Zyrtec D for free or I would be up a creek without a paddle. *sigh* The joys of the American system...
Well done, Bridgey,,,
as for the extra cost... I cannot get the 25 mg tablets as my doctor prescribed 200 mg twice a day at this point and that means 200 mg... so the pharmacist will not give me 25 mg regardless...
had he prescribed 200 mg in 25 mg tablets it would be all right.. .go figure...
sometimes I wonder....
I have been cut back on the topomax as well as on the tegretol to see how the increase on clobozam works... I can tell them how it works, it knocks me out and I still have seizures; my husband came to bed last night after the football game and I was under the blanket and bedspread and he knew there was a problem as I do NOT ever put my head under the blanket... convinced I will run out of oxygen... so he had to waken me to be sure I was all right and in the same universe as he...
and that took some doing...
maybe old tegretol wasn't so bad after all???
right now I am starting that wonderful saran wrap routine, having to fight my way out of it...
a fugue, the neurologist calls it...
and here I used to think of fugues as beautiful music... HA! so much for that idea...
kat
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