Checkout
www.northdrugstore.com for various doseages offered on most anything, note the costs in US dollars from Canadian source (they can mail it) and they have a generic Lupron now too. You can look up various drugs and find the doseages they sell (clues), generics or not and compare them even though usually about
50-75% less in cost than in the USA. Canada is not yet offering Zytiga (abiraterone) but I would like to see their price tag, asap when it hits the market (my guess is $2,000 or so a month vs. $5,300 here).
It is not illegal for people to buy Lupron and self administer shots, in England I remember reading it is done even through having it via mail to your house. So, if one were uninsured and cash were an object then that type of thing becomes a big deal.
FYI- insurance companies probably don't care that much as to which you get, when I got Lupron is was $700 more per shot vs. Zoladex...that tells me insurance companies just don't get envolved in savings on this stuff. Some docs charge maybe $5,000 for a 3mo. shot and another guy might charge $2,200....it is the wild west and ripe for ripping off the system...thus you have high priced insurance because of this goodness in behavior...everything is less than sane and we get the bill. Prepare for side effects, you will feel different, trust me. Alot of uro-docs never tell the patients that casodex and similar or casodex+proscar is a real choice, of course they make no money off those drug store pills either, just an observation.
I had two years of extacsy on those LHRH drugs back in 2002-2004....memorable to say the least and with ADT3 combo.
Post Edited (zufus) : 10/18/2011 8:00:06 AM (GMT-6)