My wife recently had an issue where it was either an anaphylactic reaction or scombroid poisoning. They treated her at urgent care and prescribed an EpiPen in case it happened again. The pharmacy comes out and says sorry it’s $120. I know my wife has very good insurance so I had to fight with them, surely there’s a generic or something? Then they look into it and say well we have a different kind of one that this prescription covers that’s $5 but it expires in September. I’m like yeah, obviously I’ll take the one that’s 24x cheaper. Like why do we have to do this whole bullshit? Why didn’t you offer that one 1st? Fuck for profit healthcare.
I’m not in the medical field but EpiPens are expensive for their autoinjector technology. Having syringes with 0.3 mg of epinephrine ready would be a lot cheaper.
Downside is, you have to take the time to fill a syringe, which might be difficult if your mid reaction, plus it’s harder for a bystander to help you since they would have to work out the correct dose.
I use Toradol for migraines, and doing this mid migraine is hard enough as it is, I can’t imagine having to do this in anaphylactic shock.
My wife recently had an issue where it was either an anaphylactic reaction or scombroid poisoning. They treated her at urgent care and prescribed an EpiPen in case it happened again. The pharmacy comes out and says sorry it’s $120. I know my wife has very good insurance so I had to fight with them, surely there’s a generic or something? Then they look into it and say well we have a different kind of one that this prescription covers that’s $5 but it expires in September. I’m like yeah, obviously I’ll take the one that’s 24x cheaper. Like why do we have to do this whole bullshit? Why didn’t you offer that one 1st? Fuck for profit healthcare.
Fuck any public service for profit.
I’m not in the medical field but EpiPens are expensive for their autoinjector technology. Having syringes with 0.3 mg of epinephrine ready would be a lot cheaper.
Source: Wikipedia - Epinephrine
Downside is, you have to take the time to fill a syringe, which might be difficult if your mid reaction, plus it’s harder for a bystander to help you since they would have to work out the correct dose.
I use Toradol for migraines, and doing this mid migraine is hard enough as it is, I can’t imagine having to do this in anaphylactic shock.
I completely agree with you.
yeah…nah…when seconds matter to death, you want an epipen.