sticker shock

[cellio]

Good heavens. I had not realized that list price for my allergy medicine is almost $3/day. (My co-pay, fortunately, is 50 cents/day.) C'mon, guys; develop generics! Besides, it would lower my co-pay a bit. :-)

Fortunately, I do not take allergy drugs year-round -- just for about 6 weeks in the summer, starting soon. I have mild allergy symptoms for longer, but I tend to develop immunities to allergy drugs after a while, and I'd rather not do that again.

Comments

[jducoeur]

There are alternatives to Claritin nowadays. IIRC, there's a company on the Web called something like Blue Sky Pharmacy (in Canada) that sells a generic Loratadine by mail cheaply enough that even with the postage it's much cheaper. And my supermarket now carries a generic knockoff called Alavert that's about half the price of Claritin...

[rectangularcat]

I just get the generic stuff from the Real Canadian Superstore (Loblaws owned). I get 72 pills for less than 10$.