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Cymbalta is too new no generics available (in this country at least)

Oh yeah this:
Isn't your wife an NP? Tell her to find some samples for you.
is illegal and she could lose here license for it.
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Crackpot wrote:Cymbalta is too new no generics available (in this country at least)

Oh yeah this:
Isn't your wife an NP? Tell her to find some samples for you.
is illegal and she could lose here license for it.
Oh for the love of... well I won't say more except to say that asking other nurses to poke around the offices they work in for samples is a common practice.

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Well, Cymbalta ain't cheap but it works for many suffering the effects of depression.

Again, it would depend upon funds available and manipulating "the system" to your advantage.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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I've just been going through a similar issue - finding that two of the medications I take daily have been determined to be not a good value to my insurance coverage based on the findings of some committee regarding clinical outcomes, etc.

But they work for ME!

Medicine should not be dictated by bureaucrats! :evil:
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bigskygal wrote: Medicine should not be dictated by bureaucrats! :evil:
What is the point of having doctors prescribe for you if some paper shuffler in an office, with no medical qualifications can say; "no, not having it..."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Because if Govt ran healthcare we might get this paper shuffler in an office, with no medical qualifications can say; "no, not having it..."
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Well that's not how it works here or in the UK (or anywhere else I know of).

In the UK and Aus, what is prescribed and paid for is purely a medical decision, no other agencies have an input. The doctor (or other person who can prescribe such as a nurse practitioner, dentist, or other allied health worker), gives you your script, you go to a pharmacy, you get your meds.
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Nope. I hope it's just a snag caused by new insurance.
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I hope so too.

Still, coud be worse, you could live somewhere where they still draw up meds from bowls ;)
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you know in some ways it's easier being off meds than starting them. When you're off them at least you can be pretty sure of your mood from one moment to the next.
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Depends on the effect on your motivation and ability to function?
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I'm pretty sure what i'm going through now is the reason for the suicide risk of antidepressants. Rapid ups and downs can be quite taxing.
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Being that the effects of anti-depressents and other mood stalbalizers are largely thru the eyes of the beholder, I'd give a vey cautious yes to that observation.

The best feedback can come from those that are close to you.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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Well, you're doing a good job of rationally observing your responses and not internalizing them. :ok

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