Price with GoodRx coupon. . just over $1 per 1mg tab
$36.22
Retail price:$502.02
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Helpful hint:
If you max out the quantity, as I did a few months ago, the price will be much less than $1 per pill.
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And that $1/mg seems suspiciously close to the price in the ROW … which means that Big Pharma is reaping huge profits.
What are people doing to get a prescription for serolimus that can be used at places like CVS …to take advantage of the occasional ‘deals’?
I asked my physician for a prescription for 90 1 mg Silolimus pills which at the rate of 5 mg/wk after titrating up from 1 will last me for at least 20 weeks. The 90 pill cost was only $67 using GoodRx. CVS has their own free coupon program which had roughly the same cost. Both vary over time. I had a specific narrow medical reason to want to try rapamycin—osteoarthritis. My PCP proposed an experiment to determine if it was effective and safe. We agreed on a time period and blood tests. She compared the mobility, appearance and my reported pain level before and after sirolimus and looked at blood labs. We were both amazed at the improvement taking sirolimus for a disease that is otherwise essentially untreatable. She is willing to continue treatment. There is quite a bit of literature that indicates reasons to expect some positive effects of rapamycin in OA. I think my OA was at a good stage to see an effect—enough disease to be able to measure a positive effect, but not so advanced that extensive joint damage might have prevented much improvement.
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Wow - thats a great price. I think the USA pricing now makes your approach probably the best choice for most people in the US starting on rapamycin now.
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Prices are not constant. They change frequently. And which is the cheapest pharmacy is not consistent either. There are other free coupon sources such as Single Care. Also individual pharmacies including CVS have their own free coupon offerings which you need to ask the pharmacy about. Go to the pharmacy window, not the pick up window and ask what their coupon price is without insurance. They can also see the other programs they participate in such as GoodRx or Single Care and give you the best price at the time. Just to be safe I had saved a photo of the best online coupon price which happened to be GoodRx that day. (Prices may change daily—be sure to take a photo that day.) Not all the pharmacy techs who staff the information window may be equally helpful. Ask if they have a cheaper coupon price, and, if not, use your coupon. All these are without insurance, of course. Most of us aren’t accustomed to using this alternative pricing system to avoid the high sticker prices that are really just part of the negotiation process between drug companies, intermediaries and insurance companies. I had no idea prior to my search for rapamycin. MOST IMPORTANT: if you just get your prescription filled at CVS without going through this procedure the cost will be the list price of $1,434 shown above. If your physician has already sent in a prescription, the tech you talk to at the info window can reprice it before you pick it up—that can’t be done in the pick up line.
Don’t forget to go to their dropdown menu and select 180 pills vs the preselected 90. It’s even cheaper IF your doc will write for that many. Mine did.
THX for all this!
These are generic. So no way to anticipate which company will have made them and what they use as “fillers” will vary.