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Just fired up a throwaway to comment here. I've been taking this medication over the past 3 months and finished about a week ago. A test a month ago showed I wa
by 2bthrowaway 12y ago
Just fired up a throwaway to comment here. I've been taking this medication over the past 3 months and finished about a week ago. A test a month ago showed I was already cured. This drug is good. Really really good. Side effects were minimal in my case and absolutely worth it.
I only skimmed the article but knew what it was about right away just from the headline. With healthcare, my copay per month was originally 200. My employer gutted my health insurance midway through treatment and my 2nd and 3rd months were quoted to me at a 2000 a month. I spoke with the specialized pharmacy and told them I couldn't afford that. They got me approved for a program that brought my cost of the Sovaldi down to 5 a month. The secondary medication (Ribasphere) to go with it was a little more expensive, but I forget how much.
Either way, I would have gladly paid the 2000 a month for this cure. Cost wasn't even a factor to me. If it came down to having to take out an 80K loan for it, I would have. My health is more important and the peace of mind knowing I've been cured is indescribable.
I'm open to questions since I've been dealing with this over the past 6 months.
- jzwinck 12y agoDo you know how you got the disease?
- 2bthrowaway 12y agoA "friend" that I got into a fight with bit me. He was known to frequent brothels.
- svsaraf 12y agoI'm not saying you're lying...but this is very hard to believe. Hepatitis C passes through blood-based contact almost exclusively (not saliva). There have only been a handful of cases through human bites.[1] [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7811879 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7811879
- 2bthrowaway 12y agoI don't really have anything to prove, this is a throwaway after all. It's certainly something I wouldn't announce publicly. That being said, it was a pretty bloody fight.
- sliverstorm 12y agoIf he was making the whole thing up, why wouldn't he have picked the most believable explanation?
- pessimizer 12y ago2bthrowaway is not being accused of making things up. You can not know that you have Hep C for years after you caught it, and your best guess of when you did is usually just that.
- 2bthrowaway 12y agoVery true. Getting annual STD tests helps get it down to a time frame as to when you go it.
- refurb 12y agoWas the program that helped you with your co-payment run by Gilead? Seems like they will cover all co-pays over $5/month. http://www.gilead.com/responsibility/us-patient-access/support%20path%20for%20sovaldi http://www.gilead.com/responsibility/us-patient-access/suppo...
- 2bthrowaway 12y agoI'm pretty sure it was. I didn't have to apply directly. My specialty pharmacy handled it for me.
- lotsofmangos 12y ago[cue jingle]
- chmullig 12y agoSimilar story for my uncle, who's 4 weeks post treatment and is showing as cured so far. He's on disability though, so Medicaid (or Medicare? not sure) is paying most of it. The pharmacist got him in a program to cover the copay, too.