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Ridiculous. We're prescribing GLP-1 agonists more and more because they're looking like a wonder drug for metabolic syndrome. Instead of ramping up production and leveraging economies of scale to save a whole lot of lives, they're just going to make bank off of them.
Correct. They're not in the business of saving lives, they're in the business of threatening lives for profit.
They're really gonna make us do price controls one at a time, aren't they?
Yes, of course.
But I thought Mounjaro was open source! How much are they charging for Ubantu?!
Didn’t you hear the Ubantu source code was leaked, you can just pirate it!
Assuming my migraine meds will go up, December price was 2200 for the month. Thankfully I had hit my deductible. Can't wait to see what news end of January brings.
They've got migraine biologics now?
Priced like one, but it's a cgrp antagonist. Nurtec, so still under patent but the only thing that has ever worked as prophylaxis for me.
It's robbery for the price, but sucking it up to pay a few months until I hit my deductible is worth not having crippling migraines.
I will admit I've been taking every three days instead of every two recently because I'm not looking forward to having to pay for it this year... If I start getting any aura or ocular symptoms at all though, I'm going right back to it.
Sounds probably a bit fringe, but I've heard that a single dose of LSD helps people with migraine to get rid of it for months.
LSD 2-4 times a year as prophylaxis sounds at least much more fun and would be immensely cheaper.
Can't really say how good it really works, because I never had a migraine, but maybe it's worth a shot - or at least to look into it.
Would be interesting to know if microdosing could already be sufficient.
Of course everyone is different, but as LSD was researched as a migraine medication, there is probably something to it - AFAIK many migraine meds are (were?) Ergot based
It's a good idea, I'm going to look into it. I've been taking ketamine a while for depression, along with the occasional psilocybin dose and those together have changed my life.
I have no qualms about trying something a little out there.
Thank you!
Sheesh. Glad you didn't really have to pay it.
Me too, but don't worry! The drug company will get theirs from me for the next few months!
Fuck this broken healthcare system.
as a diabetic who takes mounjaro...fuck
Would be nice to see a list one can search.
I bet they will be cheaper on the black market.
non-diabetics
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