Hello!
I am 24 and I have no insurance. The medication I take has no generic version and it is SSSOOOOOOOOO expensive. I was wondering if anyone here knew of any prescription plans or cards that someone like me can get and benifit from?? Also what do you think about ordering from like a Cananian pharmacy? I live in the US.

Thanks in Advance I will really appreciate ANY suggestions.........
Jade

Hello!
I am 24 and I have no insurance. The medication I take has no generic version and it is SSSOOOOOOOOO expensive. I was wondering if anyone here knew of any prescription plans or cards that someone like me can get and benifit from?? Also what do you think about ordering from like a Cananian pharmacy? I live in the US.

Thanks in Advance I will really appreciate ANY suggestions.........
Jade


It's difficult to find a private insurance that's affordable.

And, there are "discount" prescription cards advertised on TV (such as People's Prescriptions, etc), but they're worthless. Nothing that you pay a few dollars for every month is going to pay for your prescriptions.

I think that your best bet is to contact the drug company who makes the medication you take and see if they have a assistance program. Many of the larger drug companies, do. They offer low cost or free medications when your physician completes the necessary paperwork showing your need and inability to afford the drug.

What medication are you using?

Thanks so much for replying!!

I am taking Adderall xr. I actually just emailed the company that makes it today b/c I have run out of options..... Your so right about the advertised cards, they are crap! I have reasearched like every one since I posted this and not ONE would help me!! I will most likely just have to go back to taking regular Adderall 2X's a day. They have a generic for the regular one just not the new extended release one, which I really like and for me works SOOOO much better.

Thanks again
Jade

Jade,

Couple angles here...Adderall SHOULD be dirt cheap because it's just a mix of amphetamines that were the diet pills of the 60's and 70's...the bennies that even long distance truckers were eating like candy.
Problem is they got abused and thus banned almost as heavily as morphine and heroine.

Of course, the high price is because they bundled a passle of them together and got a patent making it look like something NEW.

You CAN'T get these controlled substances abroad and anyone claiming to ship them will rip you off. You can get into trouble even TRYING to order these things abroad.
(I even checked my American pharmacy supplier (I use the largest online one) and even THEY won't ship it because it's Controlled Class 2.)

A thought: Write to SHIRE (the manufacturer) and ask them if they have some sort of "compassionate plan"...many companies do recently to counter the effects of the bad publicity from one miserable drug scandal after another. Some give FREE drugs, some deeply discounted if you make a good case for need.

From what I know with LOTS of amphetamine use when I was young, you want to get off this stuff if you can and as SOON as you can. It's addictive and dangerous, prescribed or not! IMHO

Hello!
I am 24 and I have no insurance. The medication I take has no generic version and it is SSSOOOOOOOOO expensive. I was wondering if anyone here knew of any prescription plans or cards that someone like me can get and benifit from?? Also what do you think about ordering from like a Cananian pharmacy? I live in the US.

Thanks in Advance I will really appreciate ANY suggestions.........
Jade



Jade,

I've had to study the new Medicare prescription plan extensively for my mother. Unfortunately that wasn't good, so we checked out the discount cards, also figuring that they would not be much help. Therefore, I called the pharmacy to see which one, if any, actually provided a discount. Luckily, since my mother has the AARP supplement her Medicare coverage, she also gets free of charge the AARP discount card. That happens to be the one card that the pharmacist said got the best breaks, but at 24 you would not qualify.

Still, if an individual cannot afford their medicines, do go to the pharmaceutical web sites and print out the applications for their assitance programs. They usually also require that the doctor fill out part of the application and that the medication be mailed to the doctor's office, but the patient can often get the medication for little or even free, with the doctor's help and they meet the requirements.

Hope that will help.

Jade, before my mom got her own insurance and medicare part d, she dis a search and found that the manufacturers have a "free medicine" website. Just type "needymeds" and the website will come up. My mom was able to get humalog, toprol xl, zestoreritic, lantus and a bunch of other meds.

The income to qualify is reasonable as well. The websites also have a form you can download, and it tells how the program works. Good luck!