Posted by Meri-Tuuli on December 19, 2006, at 14:48:46
In reply to Re: I'm curious....$$$....£££....$$$.....trigger.., posted by Phillipa on December 19, 2006, at 14:30:34
For those of us in the UK, we only pay about $10 for each medication regardless of quantity, type of drug, etc. However, thats when you see a doc using the NHS, which I think nearly all of us babblers do. Sometimes we go privately, and then we pay out of pocket, but I don't know how common that really is. I just try to find a GP that will be amenable to my drug suggestions and therefore we pay peanuts for all our meds.
That being said, a GP rarely presribes benzos/ritain/MAOIs etc or 'exotic' combinations. So it has its downside too! Pdocs are more likely to prescribe something 'exotic' but its a push.
Of course, some babblers in the UK also order from online pharmacies, but that'll be much the same as in the US I imagine and they do so to get stuff their GP/pdoc wouldn't/couldn't prescribe them, stuff like provigil, MAOIs etc etc.
Yeah before I started using babble, I took our dirt cheap meds totally for granted. At the time, I was taking effexor and that cost me the 10 bucks standard prescription fee-I was shocked to find out that it costs something like 100 bucks if you were to buy it privately! I guess the NHS is alright at something!
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