Aimovig...

Big_John said

This caught my attention as my wife's neurologist just prescribed it for her yesterday. He spoke very highly of it, not a lot of side effects and very good results. He said it may take a couple months to get the full effect, but many are showing good results from the first week on.

Now we just have to get the insurance to pay for it.

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Hopefully it works for her...and you win the battle with the insurance company.
My doc have me 2 samples, a 70mg pen and a 140mg pen. I took the low dose one yesterday. February 15th will be the other one. My doc has told me that he has had several patients have success with it...and giving them samples to verify that it helps made the battle with the insurance companies go a bit easier.
My wife has taken several biologic meds for her several forms of arthritis. Several of them the insurance had no problem covering, problem was the $300-$500@month co-pays. She managed to get co-pay assistance on all of them. The one she is on now...she spent the better part of 4 months calling one funding group after another...only to end up back at the manufacturer who waved the co-pay. Hers is costing our insurance $5k@month if I remember right...But it is helping her...a lot. She goes for monthly infusions. By the middle of the third week she is feeling miserable. During her last infusion the nurse told her she needs to talk wit the doc as they can increase the dosage a bit more...
When we left the USPS I had no intention of taking Medicare when I became eligible for it. Sure glad I did. Between the Medicare & GEHA the only co-pays we have are for meds that we get form the pharmacy...everything else is 100% covered...