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Dillo


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Wow thats a lot of money for the meds. Big Pharma is in business to make money I don't know what they spend in research and trials but I bet thats a lot too. I remember reading about a closterial drug a while back that a Pharma company had invested millions in only to find it was causing some serious side effects and death during trials. 

I have insurance and lucky to have it since with my other problems I don't think I'd qualify for trials.

With the insurance payments and the drugs it's about 500 a month. A bargain I now see.



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GT 1a Started triple tx with Incivek, Pegasys, and Riba 2-6-2013. UND at 4,6,12,23,& 24 wks EOT 7-26-2013. Probably had Hep C for 20-30 years. Don't really know when I got it.

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I got lucky. I was going to start triple treatment had all the meds my Insurance fit the bill for everything but my copays about 65 X 3 ....and then a wonderful trial came along. So none of my meds were open or anything after I got on

the trial I gave them to my RN cordinator and told him to give them to someone who needed the help. I thank God for the trial I am on. But yes it is crazy to pay that much money.



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Geno type 1A Started Abbott clinical trial mid Jan 2013. :-)

Viral load when I started this trial 4.75million  Went 12wks on placebo and started real meds on 4/5/13 after 1wk  on real meds 25 after UND @3wks,6wks.w00t: Done trial 6/27/13 and still UND.

 
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My insurance would only pay 50% of Incevik. Incevik med assistance payed the first $ 10K. Out of pocket for me was about $20K. Riba/Peg/Procrit, freee. Hope this scensored.gif works.



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58yr m/G 1A/ VL 9,000,000 / F 3  / STARTED TRIPPLE TX (Incivek)7-14-12 / UND WK-4-8-12-16-20-24-36- 48- 12 weeks post tx UND. SVR 1-10-14
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my friends back in early 2000s had to pay cca 30k $ for 1year of Riba + Interferon...they got bank credit loans just for it (and were paying it back to the banks for years) ;/ Medicare here (Bosnia) now covers fully Riba+Interferon (i got some inside info, that they get Riba for free, but pay for interferon shots. 1 year of Riba and Interferon now costs them 18k $).

i pay for PCR and some blood test from my own pocket, since insurance covers only 1-2 PCR tests (pre tx, and 12th week)...i do intend, if i fail this therapy, to save money for Sofosbuvir, and i think it will be round 30k-100k$ for 3 months of pills. insane! i will prolly have to spend my life savings for it.

seems time of the heros in labs that didn't want to patent life saving compaunds is over ;(

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I just can not get over the cost of meds for the triple - Incivik-Riba-Pega/Interf treatment

I always got a copy of the bill every month from CuraScript (they provided meds via FedEx-overnite from Orlando, Florida)

$2,600   for 4 shots a month

$696      for 1 bottle of Riba a month

$17,000 for 1 box of Incivik a month for 3 months

So total cost for 48 weeks worth of meds:

$90,552

That's not counting all the blood work and blood transfusions.

I just don't understand how they can expect people to get treatment if they have no

health/little coverage. I thank God that my co-pays were very very minimal

I have seen on another website info about the new meds that are being blocked

by the big makers of current meds and the new meds have a better success rate and are much cheaper

And the side effects are nothing compared to what current meds put us through.

Well glad I am 48 weeks finished as of this week and UND

Just curious but are some of you out there having to pay the full cost of this treatment?



-- Edited by Butcheeyboy on Friday 22nd of March 2013 01:43:03 AM



-- Edited by Butcheeyboy on Friday 22nd of March 2013 01:43:50 AM

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