Recently I did a search on this site for alternate places to purchase prescriptions that are exorbitantly priced in the US. alldaychemist came up.
Background: Dave occasionally gets an attack of gout in his great toe. For years he has taken colchicine. Last script dispensed 8-18-06 for 90 pills, cost $10.67. As you can see, he doesn't need them often because he just ran out. Called Dr., who said have pharmacy call for authorization. So a couple of days later I waltzed into Costco pharmacy to pick this up, and the clerk looked a little funny, asked if I had insurance. I said no, and she said you don't have to buy this. It is no longer available in generic, the price for 90 is $543. Talk about sticker shock, you can buy a lot of bottles of cherry juice or cherry pills for that, which actually works pretty well.
So after reading about alldaychemist, decided to try it. They did not require a prescription, did this on line Oct 30, package arrived today. Cost was $20.20 for 200 pills--since shipping is $25.00, decided to get 200 rather than 100 but probably won't need them.
A very pleasant experience--they emailed information every step of the way, found it was stuck in NY customs a few days, but cleared and took less than 2 weeks from time of order until delivery. It does take a leap of faith to do something like this. Now I certainly wouldn't wish my dear husband to get a new gout attack, but that would be the only way to determine that they are exactly like the US purchased product.
So thanks to Tex and others who mentioned this pharmacy.
Beverly
Positive experience with www.alldaychemist.com
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You're most welcome. I'm glad that it went so well.
It's kind of difficult to believe that the cost of production here in the U. S. has increased by a factor of 50 in 5 years, isn't it. I suspect that we can thank the Health Care Reform Bill for most of that increase. It sort of granted Big Pharma a license to steal, and as we all know, the greed of the pharmacy industry knows no bounds.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
This makes my heart happy to hear that people are giving great reviews on the all day chemist!
My husband & I have been ordering from them since 2007 and that's why I chose to recommend it when I kept seeing people on our MC board that had no insurance!
We have never (knock on wood) had a problem with any meds going thru customs!
Dee
My husband & I have been ordering from them since 2007 and that's why I chose to recommend it when I kept seeing people on our MC board that had no insurance!
We have never (knock on wood) had a problem with any meds going thru customs!
Dee
"What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others."
Lesley,
You know, Entocort would probably help to reduce the gas and bloating - it's just difficult to predict how it might affect the C.
Tex
You know, Entocort would probably help to reduce the gas and bloating - it's just difficult to predict how it might affect the C.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Tex,
I landed myself back in the s**t today. I went off the rails, ate some zucchini yesterday, and baked a cinnamon loaf (everything free) this am, but (luckily) it didn't turn out well, so I only ate a very small mouthful of the crust.
Gurgling like crazy, so boated my skin feels stretched, nauseous and cramping badly. D is on it's way. I will have to start again with the meat and potato thing. I don't want to eat if that's all that is available, but I don't want to lose more weight.
Frankly, I would rather not take enterocort if I don't have to. If I can keep things under control without any more meds I would rather do that. I still have to go off plenty, and that is going to be hard. I haven't even started yet.
I wish this would ease up a bit. I am so tired of being this sick.
I have a question - do you think that the sensitivity to chicken, rice and eggs was exacerbated by the fact that at the beginning of this, just before I sent the tests to the enterolab, I was eating eggs, chicken and rice?
I landed myself back in the s**t today. I went off the rails, ate some zucchini yesterday, and baked a cinnamon loaf (everything free) this am, but (luckily) it didn't turn out well, so I only ate a very small mouthful of the crust.
Gurgling like crazy, so boated my skin feels stretched, nauseous and cramping badly. D is on it's way. I will have to start again with the meat and potato thing. I don't want to eat if that's all that is available, but I don't want to lose more weight.
Frankly, I would rather not take enterocort if I don't have to. If I can keep things under control without any more meds I would rather do that. I still have to go off plenty, and that is going to be hard. I haven't even started yet.
I wish this would ease up a bit. I am so tired of being this sick.
I have a question - do you think that the sensitivity to chicken, rice and eggs was exacerbated by the fact that at the beginning of this, just before I sent the tests to the enterolab, I was eating eggs, chicken and rice?
Lesley, I have a 'theory' (probably more like a notion) that some of our intolerances are secondary - unlike gluten (and probably casein) sensitivity, which have a genetic basis. And yes, I am guessing (really, making stuff up) that the ones that hit in this secondary way are likely to be things we're eating when our gluten reaction is going haywire. (Probably not all, because of properties like molecular mimicry... but some.)
Because of this notion, I have a corollary idea that *some* of them may be temporary, and when we are more fully healed, we might be able to eat them, though perhaps not as a staple of the daily diet.
In reality, there are many factors in play, and so little is understood at a detailed level about the differences between double DQ1s and double DQ2s (like me) and other mixes of genetics, plus the combo of medications and life/health history that landed us here... it's clearly complex and please understand that this is more like something that seems to make sense to me, not a deep understanding. (Maybe more like a hope?)
I hope you feel better. I had a minor (but concerning) bout of D today after a long stretch of Normans, and I don't know whether it's the topical magnesium I slathered on this morning, when I noticed leg cramps... or whether those leg/food cramps were actually telling me something other than what I thought they were saying. I feel fine now, but have a long evening of singing rehearsal and am debating whether prophylactic Pepto is the right answer. (I just hate that pink stuff, even though it's been nothing but helpful.) So I sympathize that you are hoping not to add meds on top of meds, and just want to turn the page on this and feel better, and progress your healing.
Because of this notion, I have a corollary idea that *some* of them may be temporary, and when we are more fully healed, we might be able to eat them, though perhaps not as a staple of the daily diet.
In reality, there are many factors in play, and so little is understood at a detailed level about the differences between double DQ1s and double DQ2s (like me) and other mixes of genetics, plus the combo of medications and life/health history that landed us here... it's clearly complex and please understand that this is more like something that seems to make sense to me, not a deep understanding. (Maybe more like a hope?)
I hope you feel better. I had a minor (but concerning) bout of D today after a long stretch of Normans, and I don't know whether it's the topical magnesium I slathered on this morning, when I noticed leg cramps... or whether those leg/food cramps were actually telling me something other than what I thought they were saying. I feel fine now, but have a long evening of singing rehearsal and am debating whether prophylactic Pepto is the right answer. (I just hate that pink stuff, even though it's been nothing but helpful.) So I sympathize that you are hoping not to add meds on top of meds, and just want to turn the page on this and feel better, and progress your healing.
"a long evening of singing rehearsal" - Do tell!
I don't know about my genes, though I suspect my mom, at least, had a gluten sensitivity.
I ate very little soy at any time, so I think that one is set in stone, along with gluten and (wahhh!) casien, though I HOPE to get sheep and goat's milk cheeses back into my diet at some time in the future.
But I was eating ONLY rice and chicken, and, at the beginning, and egg a day with rice flour bread, and it seems to me that the concentration of those foods while in a bad, bad flare might have triggered the reaction to them. It sort of seems to make sense.
The Norco stops the D, so I am never sure that a week without D and the need for stool softeners to relieve the C, presage a step towards healing. I am SO tired of meat and potatoes. But, that's where I go back to, once again.
I don't know about my genes, though I suspect my mom, at least, had a gluten sensitivity.
I ate very little soy at any time, so I think that one is set in stone, along with gluten and (wahhh!) casien, though I HOPE to get sheep and goat's milk cheeses back into my diet at some time in the future.
But I was eating ONLY rice and chicken, and, at the beginning, and egg a day with rice flour bread, and it seems to me that the concentration of those foods while in a bad, bad flare might have triggered the reaction to them. It sort of seems to make sense.
The Norco stops the D, so I am never sure that a week without D and the need for stool softeners to relieve the C, presage a step towards healing. I am SO tired of meat and potatoes. But, that's where I go back to, once again.
"a long evening of singing rehearsal" - Do tell!
I don't know about my genes, though I suspect my mom, at least, had a gluten sensitivity.
I ate very little soy at any time, so I think that one is set in stone, along with gluten and (wahhh!) casien, though I HOPE to get sheep and goat's milk cheeses back into my diet at some time in the future.
But I was eating ONLY rice and chicken, and, at the beginning, and egg a day with rice flour bread, and it seems to me that the concentration of those foods while in a bad, bad flare might have triggered the reaction to them. It sort of seems to make sense.
The Norco stops the D, so I am never sure that a week without D and the need for stool softeners to relieve the C, presage a step towards healing. I am SO tired of meat and potatoes. But, that's where I go back to, once again.
I don't know about my genes, though I suspect my mom, at least, had a gluten sensitivity.
I ate very little soy at any time, so I think that one is set in stone, along with gluten and (wahhh!) casien, though I HOPE to get sheep and goat's milk cheeses back into my diet at some time in the future.
But I was eating ONLY rice and chicken, and, at the beginning, and egg a day with rice flour bread, and it seems to me that the concentration of those foods while in a bad, bad flare might have triggered the reaction to them. It sort of seems to make sense.
The Norco stops the D, so I am never sure that a week without D and the need for stool softeners to relieve the C, presage a step towards healing. I am SO tired of meat and potatoes. But, that's where I go back to, once again.
Lesley,
I tend to agree with Sara that many of our food sensitivities are a result of molecular mimicry, but I have no idea what the odds are that the immune system will cease to recognize the resemblance after remission, and the passage of time for healing.
I also have little doubt that the more recently we have eaten an allergen prior to an antibody test, the higher the antibody level will be. That's probably a no-brainer, but it only matters if the immune system recognizes that food as an "invader" in the first place. IOW, antibody levels are not going to increase if the the immune system isn't sensitive to a given food, in the first place. Even if we only eat just a single food, for example, the immune system is not going to produce a high antibody count, if we're not sensitive to that food.
I see your point though, and I suspect that it's theoretically possible that the immune system could be so confused, and so corrupt, that it might react adversely to virtually any and every food that's exposed to it, not necessarily at a high level, but at some level of response. I have no idea if that concept is possible in the real world, but nothing surprises me, any more. Mediator release testing suggests that some degree of response is connected with almost any food, but of course, some foods generate much higher response rates than others, so the goal is to adjust one's diet to minimize foods that cause the highest response rates. Also, we have to remember that all tests have limits, in the real world. In many cases a negative result simply means that the test was not sensitive enough to detect a low level reaction. In many technologies, as tests evolve, and more sensitive tests are developed, we find that we can discover traces of substances, (or antibodies), that were "invisible" to us previously, simply because our testing methods were not sensitive enough to detect them. Of course, we know that there are downsides to that, as well, because sometimes what we find is irrelevant, because it occurs at such a level that it has no significant effect on health.
There are a heck of a lot of unknowns, and medical science barely scratches the surface of the iceberg, when it comes to understanding the digestive system, and most other systems that comprise the human body.
Tex
I tend to agree with Sara that many of our food sensitivities are a result of molecular mimicry, but I have no idea what the odds are that the immune system will cease to recognize the resemblance after remission, and the passage of time for healing.
I also have little doubt that the more recently we have eaten an allergen prior to an antibody test, the higher the antibody level will be. That's probably a no-brainer, but it only matters if the immune system recognizes that food as an "invader" in the first place. IOW, antibody levels are not going to increase if the the immune system isn't sensitive to a given food, in the first place. Even if we only eat just a single food, for example, the immune system is not going to produce a high antibody count, if we're not sensitive to that food.
I see your point though, and I suspect that it's theoretically possible that the immune system could be so confused, and so corrupt, that it might react adversely to virtually any and every food that's exposed to it, not necessarily at a high level, but at some level of response. I have no idea if that concept is possible in the real world, but nothing surprises me, any more. Mediator release testing suggests that some degree of response is connected with almost any food, but of course, some foods generate much higher response rates than others, so the goal is to adjust one's diet to minimize foods that cause the highest response rates. Also, we have to remember that all tests have limits, in the real world. In many cases a negative result simply means that the test was not sensitive enough to detect a low level reaction. In many technologies, as tests evolve, and more sensitive tests are developed, we find that we can discover traces of substances, (or antibodies), that were "invisible" to us previously, simply because our testing methods were not sensitive enough to detect them. Of course, we know that there are downsides to that, as well, because sometimes what we find is irrelevant, because it occurs at such a level that it has no significant effect on health.
There are a heck of a lot of unknowns, and medical science barely scratches the surface of the iceberg, when it comes to understanding the digestive system, and most other systems that comprise the human body.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
All make sense to me. I hope, though, that I will be able to reintroduce RICE at least to my diet. There are so many foods made with rice that I can eat! Corn would be great, but not a tragedy if I can't have it. Eggs, chicken and rice would make things so much easier.
Today I am in full flare, so it's back to square one. Or even further. The flare is strong enough to break through the Norco, though I hadn't had one today when it started. We'll see how long it takes to go away now that I am back on meat and potatoes, and little of that because my appetite is gone, though I KNOW I need to eat.
I hurt all over.
Finding out through MRT what other foods I am sensitive to doesn't make sense right now, does it. I'm sort of flailing around in the dark and the pain, and looking for a way out!
Today I am in full flare, so it's back to square one. Or even further. The flare is strong enough to break through the Norco, though I hadn't had one today when it started. We'll see how long it takes to go away now that I am back on meat and potatoes, and little of that because my appetite is gone, though I KNOW I need to eat.
I hurt all over.
Finding out through MRT what other foods I am sensitive to doesn't make sense right now, does it. I'm sort of flailing around in the dark and the pain, and looking for a way out!