What the....30 Ambien CR cost $160?!?!?!!!!

[rudeguy]

Play with fire? What?

Driving in your sleep is much more dangerous than a bong rip.

I'm a drunk. I don't want to start self medicating again. I had to get very desperate to ask for ambien.

I don't look down on anyone who smokes weed...its just not something I can do.

 

[ShawnD1]

Welcome to the wonderful world of overpriced prescription medication. Wait until you're in your 40's or 50's, and have to take a bunch of them!

????

My parents are in their 60s and neither of them take regular medication. They live in Canada and have excellent third party drug insurance, so it's not a cost thing. Healthy people do not require medication.

blame Jay Z and every druggie wanting to get a script for some.

Demand is king in the drug arena.

This is half true. Demand only drives the cost up if something is in extremely short supply, such as rare beanie babies or rare pokemon cards. High demand met with high supply causes bulk selling and low prices, such as everything sold at Walmart. Caffeine is probably the most widely consumed drug in the entire world, but a caffeine pill only costs about 10 cents because caffeine is a bulk product. A similar effect is seen with other drugs that are consumed in very large quantities, such as acetylsalicylic acid and acetaminophen.

 

[Turin39789]

How do you ask for generic? My doc's office faxes in the Rx, the pharmacy fills it, then I pick it up. Do you ask when you go to pick it up?

I really like my insurance. Yes I pay a lot for it but I get to decide how the money is spent. I also like that I know people aren't wasting insurance money by going to the doc for crap that they don't need to see a doc for. My favorite part is the $100 copay for non-emergency ER visits that's not covered by HSA.

Yea, I ask when I pick it up. "Is there a generic for this?"

Ah. I get one free routine check up a year, the rest is subject to deductible. No copay for ER, it's all deductible till I hit my OOP max.

 

[Matthiasa]

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My parents are in their 60s and neither of them take regular medication. They live in Canada and have excellent third party drug insurance, so it's not a cost thing. Healthy people do not require medication.

Hate to tell you this but no... I could eat healthy exercise an hour plus every day, get proper amount of sleep, proper everything basically, and would still need to take at least pill a day for well basically the rest of my life.

 

[EricFartman]

In China sleeping pill maybe only 0.5RMB/piece, but you just get 4-5pcs/time from doctor in legally. I can't believe so expensive in US.

 

[Mo0o]

Next time, just ask your doc if he could write you a prescription for the generic instead. Or you can ask for a trial sample pack next time to see if it would actually help.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

How do you ask for generic? My doc's office faxes in the Rx, the pharmacy fills it, then I pick it up. Do you ask when you go to pick it up?

I really like my insurance. Yes I pay a lot for it but I get to decide how the money is spent. I also like that I know people aren't wasting insurance money by going to the doc for crap that they don't need to see a doc for. My favorite part is the $100 copay for non-emergency ER visits that's not covered by HSA.

There isn't a generic for Ambien CR and your doc should know it. Perhaps surprisingly, physicians often don't know what's what with meds. The best way to go about this in general is to say something like "I need a medication to help me sleep, but I need to have one which comes in a generic".

That's all there is to it.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Re-sell them on eBay

Profit

🙂

very against the law......of course you are probably 6 years old or so...

 

[WHAMPOM]

My doc gave me an RX for these to try to help me sleep. They didn't work. I tried them twice and the rest are sitting in the bottle and will go bad because they didn't work.

Fast forward to today. I get my monthly HRA statement and it seems as though I paid $159 for them. What the???

I feel ripped off...I am seriously pissed. If they had told me how much they were before they put the charge through I would have told them to forget it.

$5.20 per pill for junk that didn't even work???

Warm milk mixed with a shot of Amereto did not work?

 

[TubeTote]

You should consider asking your DR about Soma (Carisoprodol). I use one or two of these when I need a little help falling asleep, and they work terrific for me. I'm not sure how often you need medication for sleep, but I use these only once per month if that. I also find them handy for long plane flights. I don't find them addictive. These are very inexpensive and have been around for quite a while, thinking the late 50s.

 

[Modular]

If I need to sleep I pound a few beers.

 

[dawp]

Aphrodisiac?

 

[techs]

Welcome to the wonderful world of overpriced prescription medication. Wait until you're in your 40's or 50's, and have to take a bunch of them!

Currently I take Nexium for my acid reflux. One month (30 days) worth costs me $47 with my insurance. My insurance company pays for 75% of the cost of those little purple pills. That means that 30 days worth of them costs $188, or over $6 per pill.

Yeah....... 🙄

I take the otc version of Prilosec. Works great and is a cheap as shit.

 

[techs]

I'm a drunk. I don't want to start self medicating again. I had to get very desperate to ask for ambien.

I don't look down on anyone who smokes weed...its just not something I can do.

Then you really should try Benadryl. Its what they give you in alcohol treatment programs if you can't sleep.

 

[JohnCU]

Then you really should try Benadryl. Its what they give you in alcohol treatment programs if you can't sleep.

that's trazodone