As I sit here in an apartment in the bad part of town and stare at the price of Invega which was over $3,800 for a one month’s supply I pretty much assume that this is all there is. My state has not accepted Medicaid expansion and the Ticket to Work is a joke. For the time being I am content to remain unemployed because I had a rough previous year with multiple Psych Ward visits but I am feeling better now and wonder that if I ever decided to work again if Obamacare would be a help to me to improve my status in life or if the costs of coverage would be require a very high paying job. I have made a lot of posts on this site based mainly on the assumption that my meds are too expensive for an insurance company to cover even with Obamacare being the rule of the US. I haven’t noticed as much talk about repealing it and previous history would indicate it’s here to stay (although nothing is a guarantee in life). So if any of you are on it I’d like to know how well you are covered and if it provides security for you.
Forgive me as I don’t know anything about Invega, but is there any other medication you could take? Could you talk to your doctor about how you are feeling?
I know I was on Abilify, which was over $700 a month, but switched to Risperidone which was $45 a month.
I tried risperidone but my body had an allergic reaction to it, but I heard on the wards that it made people gain mad weight like I’m talking 20s of pounds
I have gained about 20 lbs in the past couple of months, but I’ve been eating horribly. But it’s good to know that it can cause weight gain. Thanks for letting me know that.
Inventa is basically risperdal. Obama care helps because before you had to sign a pre existing condition clause now they have to cover you
I’ve taken about 10 other antipsychotics and Invega works the best so it’s not a matter of looking for another drug. I was trying to find out other people’s experiences with Obamacare. I hope Invega is eventually generic but I take 9 other drugs which cost about about $500-$1,000 in retail as well (I know some of them are at least $100 or more so I don’t have an exact amount) so getting rid of Invega wouldn’t be a magic wand to solve the problem.
Part of your weight gain could be do to the seasons and the weather. I’ve read that most people gain a few pounds when the weather turns cold. I have. They tend to lose it when the weather warms up.
When I was on Medicaid, they wouldn’t cover the cost of my Geodon and tried to force me to switch meds. I managed to find some loopholes to get covered, but I don’t know what I would have done otherwise. Can your doctor ttry to make a case to medicaid about why they should cover your drug for you? Since you’ve already tried so many others, maybe you just need your doctor to advocate for you. Medicaid did tell me if I tried a few other drugs and none were successful, they would then cover Geodon.
I fell through the obamacare cracks and don’t qualify.
This year I get fined at tax time for not having any. Doesn’t matter anyway because the next dr I’d ever visit would be for a post mortum exam- ha!
Take that “o-bama you mama don’t care” and stick it …where?
By the way I had to take benzotropine with the Risperdal I used to take. It gave me horrible dry mouth. i don’t have to take it with the Invega. I also noticed horrible constipation with the Risperdal which I didn’t have with the Invega (my crap calcified and I wonder to this day how I had a bowel movement period). I also had really bad water retention with the Risperdal. My voices were less and my cognition improved with the Invega so I don’t consider them to be the same.
My roommate purchased her own insurance through the marketplace. Since she has a significant preexisting illness, the new regulations helped her greatly.
I was on Medicaid before Obama care. But I was added to a program that makes my meds free. I’m on 12 different medications so as you can cause 3 times 12 is 36 dollars a month. After paying the rent I had only 28 dollars left for the month and this was before my partner got a job. I had to buy superworms for my lizard that cost 8 dollars a month, toilet paper was 6 a month so the left 14 dollars I had to pick and choose what pills I really needed for the month and then stretch them out to make the last another month so I can get the ones I didn’t get before.
My partner got accepted for Indiana insurance called hip. At first her payment was just one dollar then when she got a job she was accepted to a different plan under the same insurance but for 26 dollars and her meds and doctor visits are still free.
I’m not recommending Risperdal. I was just showing you the difference in price between the two drugs I had taken. I thought there might be another lower cost medication that would be as effective.
No medicaid did cover it. I just am afraid that if the price rises much more they won’t. On the other hand the makers of Invega may be persuaded to lower the price if they didn’t so it wouldn’t be all bad possibly. I have been on high priced meds for a long time and I wish something like Obamacare existed when I was younger and more able to work than now because the fact it didn’t really messed up my ability to make much of my life socially. I am 46 right now and my most productive years are basically behind me While I still would like to find a way to contribute more to society, not be so bored, and maybe live in a modestly better lifestyle. I also am interested for the sake of the likelihood that future members of my family will get this disease too. It’s hard to find information about how well Obamacare’s working in this country because you really can’t google it or find much hard evidence one way or the other. Since my health is improving I am interested in possibly using it if it’s working. One talent I actually have is poetry but because of the rules of Medicaid I’ve always have had to do it for free. My efforts in my last school try also gave me possible access to scholarships. I have few job skills right now that don’t involve doing physical things that are too difficult now. It is not likely I’ll work again but not impossible and it would be a great thing to get off Medicaid some day. I thank those of you who have responded and hope more do because it’s a very interesting topic that TV news and internet news sources can’t cover as well as individual stories can. I have received mixed signals on how its going but I’ve noticed the news doesn’t like to cover positive stories very often so if if it was going well I’d probably never know about it otherwise.
My experience with obama care has been a nightmare…very confusing and tricky. I recommend going to an agent and asking a thousand questions before signing up.
I had Medicaid and Medicare before Obamacare existed so it didn’t really make a difference for me.