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So what do you do when you are prescribed something and you can't afford it?
I am prescribed 75mc/h Fentanyl patches, 15 per month, and 10mg oxycodone, 120 per month. The oxycodone isn't bad at all as it is only about $40 to fill (before, when it was Percocet, it costs between $80 and $200, depending on where I went). The Fentanyl is RIDICULOUS! For 15 patches it is about $600! Luckily, I found this site and got the price down to $309 per month, but this is still too much! I am borderline on losing everything as it is! Since losing insurance in October, things have been on a steady decline ever since! Now that I have allowed an insurance lapse there isn't an insurance company that would touch me with a 10-foot pole now! For a bit of background, I fell off an 8 story building about 13 years ago. This fall was not even the root of all my problems, but it certainly added to them. My father, who has never been the one to give me anything I didn't work my a$$ off for, gave me the wonderful gift of the genetic flaws that cause your discs to rupture, your cartilage to thin, your spinal column to swell, and your joints to swell. THANKS, POP! Really, I wish he hadn't been so generous! So, to add to my faulty genetic structure, my fall gave me a metal hip, metal knee, metal shoulder, one kidney, and some great scars (if chicks dig scars, they should be phlocking out of the woodwork at me! ;) So, anyway, I couldn't work for a long 3 years and, when I finally was able to walk again, I couldn't do my old job anymore. SUCKS! Now, the bills were piling up, my wonderful wife (who never ONCE even THOUGHT about leaving and I still can't figure out why) had moved us out of the beautiful home we'd had built for us and into a cosy 900 ft2 apartment, and the company I was working for when I fell decided to let me go because I couldn't do the job anymore. I must admit, if it wasn't for my wife and son, I would have just ended it all right then. Determined to make it work, I took a job in sales and found I was pretty good at it. Making good money wasn't enough, though. The entire time I had been in the hospital, my wife and son had been surviving on credit cards and paying the minimum out of savings and now, there was no savings left. Just think about how much of a credit card bill you could build by paying for everything you need in 3 years! All the bill collectors that piled up in my 3 years in the hospital were now out for blood!
Well, that hasn't changed much between then and now. I am able to work and I make decent money, but every penny of it goes toward simply surviving and paying as little as possible to the bloodthirsty hounds called collectors.
Like I said, I can't afford the Fentanyl but I can't function without it. I asked the doctor if there was something lower in cost but, as he is going off my history from Florida, he can't change the script. I just don't know what to do.
I think I wrote this to simply get it off my chest, rant a bit. I feel a bit better but I am still stressing big time about those meds. I can't buy them and at the same time I can't work to make money without them. It's amazing how that works, isn't it?
I never was for "Universal Health Care" plans because I have always worked so hard for what I get. Now, I would vote for a health-care plan in a second because I have seen the other side of life. The saddest part of that previous statement is I know there are plenty of people out there who can't even afford the doctors visit, much less any prescriptions he might write. I know my problems are small in comparison to the big picture but it's hard to see outside of one's own vision.
For those out there who have similar, or worse, problems, remember:
I will pray for you all tonight
I will hope for a better tomorrow
I will help those who ask for help
I will never lose faith that God is the Father, Christ is the Son, and they both love us all, even if we don't know who they are. |
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