Jo Kelly, a retired social worker in Conklin, Mich., and her husband, Ray, a retired railroad mechanic, each take Lipitor and two other brand-name medicines, plus some generic drugs. Both are 67, and they land in the Medicare prescription "doughnut hole," which means they must pay their drugs' full cost by late summer or early fall each year. That pushes their monthly cost for Lipitor to about $95 each, and their combined monthly prescription cost to nearly $1,100.
Generic Lipitor should hit pharmacies Nov. 30 and cost them around $10 each a month.
"It would be a tremendous help for us financially," she says. "It would allow us to start going out to eat again."
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This is great news, but I've got a better idea--at least re Lipitor: cut carbs, up fat and get off it completely. I wouldn't take Lipitor or any other cholesterol lowering drug whether I could afford it or not. I'm not convinced that high cholesterol (that isn't VLDL and carb generated) is something I necessarily want to avoid--at least not by taking drugs that can have some serious side effects that may outweigh any possible benefits. I can't speak to the other drugs this couple takes as they are not listed, but if diabetic drugs are among them, they could reduce or eliminate those with a low carb diet, too--as you well know.
ReplyDeleteThat's good news, but wouldn't it be better to cut carbs, increase fat and get off Lipitor all together? Except for the carb induced VLDL, cholesterol is not a bad thing--we need it. Why take drugs to lower it?
ReplyDeleteSo many as we have seen, will use any amount of drugs so they can keep eating doe nuts and other junk. That is their right I suppose, but why do these carb addicted people spend 24/7 trying to run down lowcarb. They may want to believe clueless dietitions and other idiots and spreaders of fear, but the naysayers are wrong ! All drugs have side effects, some we do not notice in the short term. Others kill people quickly as we have seen. Multiple drug high intensity regimes for type two’s has proved to be a disaster for many.
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Um, women get no benefit from statins. Men with no diagnosis of heart disease and over 65 get no benefit from statins. Get off the damn drugs!
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