Metformin cost exceptionally high?
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Diana RL
Hi, Diana |
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Lesley Bludworth
Diana,
In October 2022 I purchased a months supply of metformin at Costco for about $20 to $30. -- Lesley Bludworth Phoenix, AZ 7/2022 Sophie TWH mare IR/EMS, PPID? https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/SophieB%20Case%20History https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=277749 |
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Diana RL
Lesley, Was that pills or powder? Can you remind me of the dosing again? Thanks! On Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 12:44 PM Lesley Bludworth <Lesleyblud@...> wrote: Diana, |
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nancyochi
Diana, I inquired about powdered metformin from my vet last year and was quoted $280 (I don’t know who the compounding pharmacy was) for 60 scoops. At 11mg (1.5 scoops) twice a day that would have lasted me less than a month. I buy the pills for $35 per bottle and grind them myself in a coffee grinder. I’ll spend my money elsewhere.
-- Nancy O, Elbert County, CO, 2022 |
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ferne fedeli
I always bought the Metformin pills at Costco for less than $30 for a month's worth & ground them in an old coffee grinder. My Icelandic ate them mixed in his dish feed just fine. The very first Metformin RX I took to a local pharmacy & they charged me $120!!! A friend recommended Costco Pharmacy & I never looked back!
-- Ferne Fedeli Jack 2007 Point Arena, Mendocino County, California
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Lesley Bludworth
It was pills that I ground up in my coffee grinder.
1000 mg per 100 lb i believe. -- Lesley Bludworth Phoenix, AZ 7/2022 Sophie TWH mare IR/EMS, PPID? https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/SophieB%20Case%20History https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=277749 |
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Diana RL
Thank you, all. Pills looks like the only option from a cost perspective. Next question...doses everyone syringe the ground pills? Mixed with water? Something else? Can it be fed at the same time as a meal? Appreciate the guidance. On Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 2:03 PM Lesley Bludworth <Lesleyblud@...> wrote: It was pills that I ground up in my coffee grinder. |
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Diana, have you read the metformin information in our Files?
https://ecir.groups.io/g/main/files/4%20Insulin%20Resistance/Metformin
-- Canberra, Australia 2010 https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Maxine%20and%20Indy%20and%20Dangles
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Diana RL
Thank you, Maxine. I should have thought to look. On Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 2:43 PM Maxine McArthur <maxineemc@...> wrote:
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I use the human tablets for Salsa. Grind them in a coffee grinder and he eats it on his feed. With GoodRx I get 660 pills a month for about $20. -- |
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Thanks for the information!
-- Janet M. OH 2021 |
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Mine are $20/bottle from my vet
-- Michele Goldberg Bernville, Pa joined 2015 https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Michele%20and%20Schimpie |
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