My copays cost that much per month. My Cymbalta was $495 and it was duloxetine, the generic, if that is possible. I am on a brand name HRT which I have to pay $35 for and even tho my Ambien is now generic, zolpidem, I still have to pay the brand name copay of $35. I use Darvocette for pain and split one 10 mg Vicodin per day, and take Mirapex for RLS....

I had the worst episode of itching, and I can't tell you how hard I searched for the bedbugs....it was the neuropathy, and Lyrica worked to stop the itching...only thing is after a few weeks it builds up and I can't find my way around a town of 6,000 people. Plus insurance won't pay for Lyrica...just Neurontin....tried that-it kept me up-go figure-and man was I grumpy....not a good thing.

Not one SSRI has done anything for me than make me get projectile vomitting, severe headache, diarrhea and almost a disorderly conduct charge. That was a few years back. My special needs adopted daughter who was 7 or so, accidentally opened her car door into a lady's parked car and she had a hissy fit-no damage-not even a scratch....I used a naughty word at her and she threatened to call the police. I told her if she couldn't see the child was handicapped than she was a ...... idiot. I stopped my zoloft shortly after that. I have been much more agreeable in the decade that has ensued.

I have the distinction of being up for 3 days straight from Chloral Hydrate.

If it is anticholinergic, antidopaminergic, I simply can't take it, no matter what the chemical family it is from. That is the first thing I check, is it anticholinergic or antidopaminergic, if not, then I agree to try it....however, all SSRI's are antidopaminergic in general.

I can take a 'codone', only when it is early in the day....otherwise, I am up all night.

I get 3-4 hours sleep off Ambien, that is good enough....

I do not understand why they advertise prescription drugs on TV....shouldn't the docs make those decisions...not me, based on my affection for a groundhog??

I have to accept I am wired differently and there are simply no good answers and that isn't any drug company's fault or doctors fault. It is me. That said, I do think that people need to be very careful of what they take. Not all this stuff is good for people, neither are all procedures.

I had two spinal nerve root blocks and that ended up being the stupidest thing I ever did. I regret it terribly. Water under the bridge at this point. Life goes on.

Gotta go cook some supper. Thanks for the empathy.