Comments on: Doctor’s Office Sample Drugs

By: Cinda Crawford

Cinda Crawford — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:12:10 +0000

Thanks for your reply. All we have to do is be wary of what we’re doing. The first couple of times that I took those drug samples and ran the circuit of battling back and forth with my health insurance company to try to get them approved for a full prescription, I learned what was happening. One of the nurses asked me, “Well, if you want a cheaper drug, why did you ask for the expensive one?” Duh… I didn’t know I was! But I learned and so can everyone else.

By: Sarakastic

Sarakastic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:30:58 +0000

Ah I’d never thought about how those freebies come back to haunt us but it’s true.

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By: Maija Haavisto

Maija Haavisto — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:20:28 +0000

Another problem is that they are unlikely to have samples of the drugs that are the most likely to help while being very safe and well-tolerated, such as low dose naltrexone, baclofen, nimodipine or nootropics. So if you go by samples alone, you’ll never get to try the best treatments. Of course, many doctors are completely ignorant of the hundreds of medications there are for CFS/ME and fibromyalgia anyway, but some are open-minded enough to listen if you bring them up.