My brother was diagnosed last week with type 2 Diabetes...........

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2. Brother called...........

The diabetic medication he was prescribed is Invokamet http://www.drugs.com/invokamet.html Also learned that a side effect of Invokamet is low blood pressure.

The 3 other medications he was prescribed are not to control his diabetes and are for a condition he has never been diagnosed with they are:

Norvasc for high blood pressure
Hydrodiuril for high blood pressure
Avapro for high blood pressure

In regard to the Invokamet, he gets $4600 a year from the corporation to pay for it for up to 4 years. There's no means testing for this amount. If there was he wouldn't get it, his income is in the high 5 figures, with just his wife and daughter as dependents.

I told him that some doctors will describe a high blood pressure medication as a prophylactic if you're a diabetic. But it's usually lisinipril or its likes and it's one pill a day.

I told him to call his doc first thing in the morning, demand to know why he was prescribed 3 non-generic high blood pressire medications, when he's never been diagnosed with it, 2 a prescription (order) for a monitor, test strips, access to a diabetes educator and he wants to be changed to generic drug(s) for his diabetes and see how that controls it. I said if the doctor says this program works for his other patients, my brother should tell him he's opted out of this doctor's care.

My question, which brother won't ask, is how much are these pharmaceutical companies paying this doctor to prescribe these medications.