RE: Big Pharm is messing up my life
May 10, 2015 at 4:28 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2015 at 4:33 pm by Aroura.)
(May 10, 2015 at 4:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You have to learn the difference between brand names and generic.
http://www.mariayang.org/2011/02/16/anti...a-graphic/
Quote:According to drugstore.com, 40mg of fluoxetine costs $40.99 per month. 40mg of Prozac costs $398.49 per month. Prozac went off patent in August 2001.
These fucking doctors who are owned by the drug companies push the brand names.
Yes, my doc doesn't want to put me on just any SSRI (I know some have gone generic now), she wants to put me on a new one, Vortioxetine. Of course she doesn't want to put me on any of the generics, I've already tried all of those in the past, and so her excuse is I should try the new one, or how will I know it doesn't work?
Well, if the 6 before didn't work, why would this one? Why even the desire take me off of an inexpensive, few to no side effect, EFFECTIVE medication, and put me on an expensive, multiple side effect, type so far ineffective for me medication?
Also, she's just wrong or lying about the side effects of my old, effective med, and telling me the new one has few bad side effects. Well....I have the internet, I can tell she's lying after 2 minutes of Googling.
I can't see any motivation except the money. That's why I titled this thread the way I did.
Also, thank you for the John Oliver link, I'm going to check that out now.
I've gotten used to taking an inexpensive generic medication for so long (with a good, sane doctor who gave a crap about me and was willing to give me what worked for me, and not just his pocket book), so I really lost track of how bad Big Pharma is.
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