Posted by shellie on August 21, 2000, at 19:29:23
In reply to Re: Free meds » shellie, posted by Greg on August 21, 2000, at 17:11:19
> Shellie,
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> I have a friend in this situation right now, I'll pass this info along to them. Have you ever used this website for obtaining meds? If so, what was your opinion of them?
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> Thanks for passing this info along, things like this really help people out!
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> GregThe website is not for obtaining meds, just for getting information about each company's free med program. I used it for topomax. Topomax was not listed but my pdoc and I looked up its manufactorer who IS listed and we used the number from another one of the manufactorer's meds. My pdoc had to call and they sent her a form for me to fill out and she sent me a prescription and I think I have to send a bank statement and they will provide the drugs through her. The web site just provides the information; you have to follow through with the phone numbers they give you and information they want. It's really just a short cut to calling the manufacturer yourself and asking if they have a program for people who can't afford their meds. The one problem I ran into was with provigal. Their program only includes provigal if it was proscribed for narcolepsy (although they were working on changing that decision). Almost every company has a "free" program, just the criteria and the way it works differs. The site helps make it a bit easier. Shellie
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