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Posted 1/18/2010 9:05 PM (GMT 0)
     Can anyone tell me the best place to purchase these two products?
Posted 1/18/2010 9:40 PM (GMT 0)
Christine, if you can get a prescription for VSL#3DS Packets of 20, if your insurance would cover some of it, that's the best way to go. (There have been numerous conversations about my trials of getting a doc to order it in exactly that way so I'd get the one covered by my ins.!)

Otherwise, I've just googled "VSL#3" and ordered it from the company.

Slippery elm, I've found at my local health food store. I have done better with liquid - adding drops to water. It's important to take it several hours between meds, though, because of the "slippery"
thing.....
Posted 1/18/2010 10:03 PM (GMT 0)
From what I found, slippery elm was the cheapest at Vitacost.
Posted 1/18/2010 10:06 PM (GMT 0)
VSL 3 is only $65 special ordered at the Costo Pharmacy
Posted 1/19/2010 1:39 AM (GMT 0)
     $65 for how many?  The probiotic I take costs only $17 for a bottle of 200!
Posted 1/19/2010 2:13 AM (GMT 0)
I pay about $42.00 at Sam's Club.  You have to have the pharmacy order it, and it takes about 2 days. 
Posted 1/19/2010 2:21 AM (GMT 0)
I was ordering direct from the company, buying three boxes at a time, $75 per box. Each box had 30 sachets.
Each sachet had 450 billion organisms - the equivalent of 450 Align pills. So, not a bad value when you think of it that way.(!)

The VSLDS has 900 billion per. To me, numbers like that are mind-boggling....
Posted 1/19/2010 11:33 AM (GMT 0)
The best source I have found to date for purchasing slippery elm powder is Mountain Rose Herbs. The link is here.
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