Think about this:

Yesterday I had a talk with my neurologist about an ongoing migraine issue: let’s just say I have tried everything to control an ocular migraine and migraine vertigo challenge for about 10 years. I have been on a med, Emgality, which is a self-administered shot, (co-pay, $150+/mo with insurance), which I think is no longer helping me to the fullest, so the neurologist submitted a request to Emblem Health for a new drug. I received a call a few hours later from the insurance company informing me that my Part D would not cover this new drug: Apparently you can’t have drug Y unless you show X didn’t work, first: Thus, I’d have to try Nurtec, the “covered” drug before I could try Qulipta.

I received a call before from the neurologist’s office that the Nurtec had been approved. My naive assumption was that this med, in pill form, would be cheaper than the current Emgality injection. This new drug is to be taken every other day, even so, thirty-two pills were prescribed. Then I was told the cost per month: A co-pay of over $400. With insurance. If you don’t have insurance, you can search for a coupon on-line for about a 15% discount, leaving a monthly cost of over $900. The drug is going for $1-2,000/mo. as I have discovered on-line and this includes the local chains. And, if one has insurance, one cannot apply for a coupon.

Catch-22.

You lose with insurance and  you can’t possibly afford it without insurance. You just, plain, freaking LOSE.

I spoke to the pharmacist at my Union-recommended pharmacy online,  (which I don’t use, I support my local pharmacist) and he was very sympathetic, but he could do nothing more than suggest I call the pharmaceutical company which I have attempted to do, but no one was there.

Over ten years, I have tried every drug and machine-device, etc., available. Perhaps I should have continued with the (failed) Botox shots to the forehead: at least I would have looked less surprised when I heard the monthly cost.

I was thinking that a trip to France or Mexico for medications would likely cost less than this drug annually…I even checked canadian pharmacies but the drug is not carried.

Khloé Kardashian, one of the Kardashian sisters who takes more interest in her tush than she does in social justice, is the spokesperson for Nurtec. Here’s one of her Twitter posts: Here’s a link to the propaganda

Makes me wonder how the people who wrote testimonies on the website were able to afford their med stash.

And here is my tweet back at her which she will see along with the drug company.

As for me, I’ll keep the Emgality. For whatever it does, at $150/month, it seems like a bargain.

(PS don’t forget I went toe to toe years back with Dell computers and got some justice at the corporate level. It all began with a Twitter.)

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In the words of Marvin Gaye, a great protester for change.
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