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(22,206 posts)I am highly needle phobic having had a needle embedded in my foot for who knows how long? It happened cleaning up my parent's house when I was 16 years old. No one believed me and finally my mother took me to the hospital ER and they x-rayed my foot and could see the other 1/2 of the needle in my foot. I've been highly phobic ever since (some 40+ years now).
MS drugs out there are mostly all injections which I will not and cannot do.
There is a new one coming out in pill form next month. I was hopeful briefly until I realized they'll probably want me to do those damned shots first before I'd ever get the pills.
How is that for sickening?
And this supplemental plan is not cheap. Cost being about $10K a year and for what?
Medicare pays most of it and now the drug plan has turned into this game of how much before the need of the patient.
The drug companies are calling all of the shots on health care now. Why do we even need doctors when the drug company (CVS -- a true cancer of a company IMO) tells you what you can an cannot have, hence the reason most of my co-pays jumped to $100.00 a hit.
I cannot afford it. I am trying to live on less than $1,000.00 a month.
I'm hopeless I must admit.