Questions about paying for my meds.

Hello everyone and happy Monday. On August12, 2011 I began the Pegasis injections, my insurance paid for the medication in full. On August 16 I got a call saying there was a mistake that I did not meet the criteria for Pegasis, but I did for Peg Intron. I was lead to believe that Peg Intron was simply a generic for Pegasis Interion. After talking to my Doctor I found out that is simply not the case. In fact the side effectsm are worse and the success rate of Peg Intron is much less then Pegasis. My Doctor will not write a script for the Peg Intron, he does not like it and my insurance will not pay for the Pegasis. I am already almost three weeks into treatment. The pegasis cost 2700.00 dollars pe rmonth... YUCK... Has any one tried Peg Intron? Does anyone know of places that help pay for meds that insurance won't??

Thank you for any and all help and suggestions..

Bella

Connie,
Thank you for your help. I am at work and my meds are at home so once I am off I will send you all the info you need. My Dr. said he was on some kind of investigating commitee for Peg Intron and is totaly against it, where as my insurance company says they will only pay for Pegasys if i had type 1 with a viral load of more then 600,000 or if I also had HIV. Well I do not meet either critera. I have type 3 with a virial load of 14 million and no HIV. I have been on the Pegasys for 3wks and have had very little side effect so I don't really want to change meds if I don't have to, beside my doctor won't write the rx for Peg Intron even if I wanted to try it.
Thanks again,
Bella

Connie,
yaeh that and I don't have HIV..
Bella

Thank you very much for your help. I am very thankful for all your help.
Bella