Sudden Dextroamphetamine Price Quadruple???? (Page 4)
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What happened? Oh, no... I am f+#*ed. Went to Walgreens to fill dextroamph rx tonight. Instead of approx. $75 they said for me with self-pay it's $355+!!!! This is for ONE month. No way I can afford it! Suddenly? What the _ do I do? Taper down with the 2 more days of pills that I have? So, you just blow, they are saying to me. Just be sick, and here, we'll make it so you're much, much sicker!!!

Are all the pharmacies going to have the same astronomical price hike? Has anyone got information about about this?

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Ya'll are lucky. In Texas it went from $103.00 for 90 sr caps to $789.00. They are still almost $600.00

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Thank you so much for listing the gov. sites to file complaints! I was paying around $170 for 120 10mg dextroamphetamine (1 month supply). That's still expensive, but it went up to $283. This past month I went to get my Rx filled and almost burst into tears...the price was $520!!! I currently can't get health insurance because the insurance companies are still considering ADHD to be a "pre-existing" condition! I'll be filing a complaint right now and hope that it helps.

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Hi everyone,

Just an update on this issue. Last month I used a prescription savings coupon. You simply need to fill in your name and a phone number or random 10 digit number. I was able to get Teva/Barr dex for $40. That is for 130 tablets. I know Walgreens seems to accept the coupon so it may be worth a try if you live near a Walgreens.

Good luck!

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Attention any low income people who don't have insurance: Talk to your doctor about Vyvanse. You can apply to "Shire Cares" program, and if you are approved, you will get the Vyvanse for free. This is what I did. They give you a card to present at your pharmacy when you fill the prescription and it rings up $0... Vyvanse is Lisdexamfetamine -- the molecular structure is dextroamphetamine + L-lysine. It is a longer acting form of dextroamphetamine because it takes time for you body to "cleave" off the L-lysine. I am actually preferring it to having to take dextro tablets multiple times a day.

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I've had similar experiences. 120 Dextroamphetamine 5 mg tablets went from $10.98 to unavailable. Then I asked my doctor for a prescription of 60 of the 10 mg tablets, $27. Then both went up to $191 for 120 of the 5 mg and $180 for 60 of the 10 mg even with the Walgreen's discount card. CVS was even higher.
I asked my local Walgreen's for prices and it turns out that the higher doses were cheaper, especially the 30, 20, 15 and 12.5 Adderall generics. I ended up getting a script for 60 of the 20 mg Adderall generic, and broke it along the scored lines, 3/4 equals 15 mg which is about equal to 10 mg Dex.
BTW 5 mg Dex is equal to about 7.5 mg Adderall so if you have a good long-standing relationship with your doctor, check the pharmacies for prices and then ask your doctor for half as many pills of twice the dosage. Then tell the doctor that adderall is about half the strength of Dex tablets and get enough to carry you through until the other prices go back down.

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And they wonder why people rob pharmacies.. jk. Mine went down from $89 to $80 this month for 150 10mg tablets. That's 25% of costs with my insurance.

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It's not just Walgreens that upped the price. CVS Pharmacy charged me $283 for sixty capsules of the ER version.

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got my 90 dex 10mg for 56$ today at walgreens. this unarxcard saved me over 140$. you can google unarxcard for more details... goodluck dex family.

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Try phentermine 30 mg spansules. Harder on the liver I believe, but what option do ADHD patients have until the TEVA/BARR Pharmaceutical price gouging is investigated and prosecuted.

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I also suffer from narcolepsy. Sleeping all the time is a real non productive way to go through life and I sympathize for everyone with this.

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Today I finally got my scrip for 83.74 for dextroamphetamine 10mg quantity 180 after paying 300.plus dollars the month before. I usually paid 73.84 until december 2012. I used freemedicine.com/medlist/Amphetamine-Dextroamphetamine.shtml printed out the coupon and walgreens accepted it. The link mentioned by another poster was a dead link. I just wanted to pass it along and hope it helps others. I found the link by googling dextroamphetamine price increase. Please pass it along. No one should have to suffer such a price increase, and I will also be forwarding a complaint to the ftc, and hope all of you do to.

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I am in the same situation. I will end up going bankrupt trying to pay for my medication. I have to take Dextroamphetamine for my narcolepsy. I am currently taking one 10mg tablet 8 times a day, for a total of 240 tablets a month. When I went to Walgreens to get my Rx filled, the Pharmacist warned me that the medication had gone up in price. He had seen that I was going to self-pay, and he wanted to give me a heads up. He then told me that my Rx was going to cost $629. I almost passed out. I thought that maybe it was just Walgreens raising their price up to a ridiculous amount, so I checked with my local Osco Pharmacy only to find out that it was even more expensive there. They quoted it to be $814 for the 240 tablets. The pricing of this medicine has gotten out of hand. I was told that the increase in price is due to a shortage, but I don't see how that is possible. There WAS a major shortage of this medication in my area at the beginning of 2012, but by May of 2012 the shortage was nearly non-existent. During that entire time period, the price never went up and never fluctuated. So how is it that now, at a time when this medication is not even remotely scarce, the price skyrockets?

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Danielle,
I just picked up my generic dextroamphetamine tablets today 120 tablets/1 month supply and the total was $274.17 with my insurance. Absolutely obscene! :-/

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Here is an explanation: Anatomy of the Great Adderall Drought

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help did you find out anything out about the price.

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Hi what can i take that is as good as dexedrine they cost to much is there another pill cap that works the same but cheaper help feel very bad need my meds

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We have been left to die.

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Danielle - I am self employed and do not have prescription insurance as it is too expensive. So medication is out of pocket. The reason I used Dex is that it is the cheapest option. Until Teva decided to become greedy that is.

You are correct, there is nothing special, about this medication. It has been made for nearly 80 years. According to Kevin Mannix, at Teva, on their Dec 11th shareholder call:

We have this year already taken 2 dozen price increases. We have for next year planned an equal amount of price increases, and we are mining our 367 products to take advantage of increasing prices in order to still allow for value for our patients, but to increase value to us and to, ultimately, our shareholders.

Obviously, raising price 668%, doesn't add value for patients. This is a pure greed move to increase revenue and "value" to shareholders at the expense of patients. And Teva admitted so on their call.

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may i ask for those taking this and these pharma prices, are u using any type of insurance, medicare, medicaid, or a pharmacy discount program? i just can't imagine these pills could be that expensive!! dextroamphetamine are no longer available in anything other than generic and there is nothing that special about them as far as anything that might make them a more costly med. I am dumb founded to hear this. i got these a month or 2 last year when my normal Rx was not to be found, and i paid $5 for a 30 day supply. it is not fair or right for anyone to have to pay what i see some of you were asked to pay. TEVA MAKES ENOUGH MONEY, THIS IS A DISGRACE!!! I work for a small pharma company so i truly have an interest here, and it's very disheartening to hear this deplorable news. i'm getting to the bottom of this....

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All Dex-amph users should try goodrx.com for their self printed coupon prices, I just checked and #30 10 mg dex/amph were around $55 for #30. Best of luck. BTW, GoodRx is trustworthy and it even provides you with a google map to your nearest pharm that accepts their coupon.

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