I am going to go to the dr soon, and i feel sure that i will be dx with pcos. i am really interested in trying metformin... the problem is that while i have insurance and can go to the dr, i have no prescription coverage. does anyone here have to pay for their metformin out of pocket? how much is it?
wow, that would be amazing. i just found out that i have no co-pay to see a dr OR a specialist, too, so this looks completely do-able! i'll be making my appt sooner than expected!
Target also has the same $4 prescription list---that's where I get my met, as my co-pay is 15$ if I went through my insurance company. It's a lovely, lovely thing.
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Giant Eagle (a regional grocery chain) has it on their $4 list. I'm on 2000 mg/day and pay $12 for 3 months. Under my mail-order prescription plan, I'd pay $30 for the same medication! I go there to fill all my generic scripts, and "pretend" I'm uninsured. (There is only one script I mail away, and that is Synthroid. The makers of Synthroid have a deal with my insurance provider, so I pay $16 for it instead of $60!)
If your doctor wants you on a different dose (say 500 or 1000 mg/day) talk her into prescribing the 1000 mg pills. Then cut them in half. This means your script will last twice as long, as the $4 plans don't make a distinction between the 500 and 1000 mg pills.
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Giant Eagle (a regional grocery chain) has it on their $4 list. I'm on 2000 mg/day and pay $12 for 3 months. Under my mail-order prescription plan, I'd pay $30 for the same medication! I go there to fill all my generic scripts, and "pretend" I'm uninsured. (There is only one script I mail away, and that is Synthroid. The makers of Synthroid have a deal with my insurance provider, so I pay $16 for it instead of $60!)
If your doctor wants you on a different dose (say 500 or 1000 mg/day) talk her into prescribing the 1000 mg pills. Then cut them in half. This means your script will last twice as long, as the $4 plans don't make a distinction between the 500 and 1000 mg pills.
I go to Giant Eagle as well. I'm on 2000 mg of XR pills (500 mg each) and it costs around $8. The initial problem I ran in to is that they didn't want to give me a full month of pills. I need 120 and they cut you off at 100. For some reason recently though they've gone to giving me the full amount (which is the $8).
It's still cheaper than my insurance. (If I mailed in for 3 months it'd be about $60, one month at a time probably about $80). And you don't really have to 'pretend' you don't have insurance. They have my insurance and my perscription club stuff on file. I just have to watch once in a while if something's cheaper on one plan than the other. Plus you get Fuel Perks.
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Have you thought about asking your doc to prescribe the 1000 mg pills? I'm on the same dose and pay $12 for 3 months ($4 a month.)
My doc just didn't see the sense in me taking two pills at a time instead of one. Plus, under the $4 plan, I pay half what I would be paying if I was still on the 500 mg pills!
My doc writes all my scripts for 3 months at a time because the mail-order people want them that way. It's just easier like that.
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I haven't had a chance to ask her about the 1000 mg pills, I didn't know if the XR came in that size or not.
Personally, I've been taking 1500mg instead of 2000mg (so the 500mg is good) because I have a hunch that I was being 'overmedicated' based on my lab work. I'm only on met to balance my hormones, not to control IR or anything. 2000mg did the exact same thing for my cycle that 1000mg did... and my lab work was good on both dosages... so I split the difference.
I'm going back next month, so I'll see if my hunch was right, and if I can get my prescription changed over to 1000mg tablets I will. Taking 4 tablets once a day gets a little old...
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I love the Wal-mart $4 prescriptions too! I am TTC and my doc said to start taking pre-natals....I was able to get them at Wal-mart for $4 as well! I had no idea that Kmart and Target did this as well!
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