Budesonide Online
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Budesonide Online
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has ordered budesonide online and if so what site is safe. My insurance changed and the current rate through my insurance is unaffordable. Thanks! Christy
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Sheila
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Hi Christy,
I bought budesinide on line for two years from:
www.onlinecanadianpharmacy.com. Their name is Granville Pharmacy.
They are located in Vancouver, Canada. Phone 1-888-730-3338.
I don't remember exactly what I paid but it was very reasonable.
Sheila W
I bought budesinide on line for two years from:
www.onlinecanadianpharmacy.com. Their name is Granville Pharmacy.
They are located in Vancouver, Canada. Phone 1-888-730-3338.
I don't remember exactly what I paid but it was very reasonable.
Sheila W
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
A person who never made a mistake never tried something new. Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried something new. Einstein
Hi Christy,
Without a prescription I order it from alldaychemist it was very reasonable. It is called Budez.
http://www.alldaychemist.com
Without a prescription I order it from alldaychemist it was very reasonable. It is called Budez.
http://www.alldaychemist.com
Donna
Diagnosed with CC August 2011
Diagnosed with CC August 2011
Bearcat,
Everything you say is true, and I wish that I could agree with you because of course that is the official establishment position. But after so many members have ordered those products and found them to be exactly as advertised, including working identically to the "officially approved" (but prohibitively expensive) versions sold domestically, it's not so easy to say, "You shouldn't be doing that". Especially because in most cases, the only reason people would even consider doing that is because they simply cannot afford to buy the medications they need in this country. In some cases that's true even if they have insurance. Would you rather they do without? It's easy to believe in such standard industry caveats, when you're not afraid to leave the bathroom. But when you're up to your ass in alligators, you tend to forget why you came to the swamp in the first place.
Sure the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are going to make sure that we are constantly reminded that there are unscrupulous companies out there that will rip us off, because everyone is out to protect what they consider to be their own turf. But guess what, there are plenty of ripoffs involving bad drugs produced and sold domestically, also. We have a member who was sold a thyroid supplement (a synthetic thyroxine) that was 10,000 times her prescribed dose. That's not a misprint — it was actually 10,000 times the proper potency. She is lucky to be alive, because it took a few days to discover the problem. So does FDA approval actually mean anything, as far as accuracy and reliability is concerned?
It sounds good in theory, anyway.
The main problem here is that way too many prescription drugs are priced out of reach of the very people who need them the most, and with the new insurance policies in place, that problem is growing at an alarming rate. Even people who thought they had good insurance (and originally they did), are discovering that the more expensive drugs are being kicked up into higher priced tiers, so that the copay is unacceptably (unaffordably) high. We don't have to be rich to develop MC, but our health care system seems to assume that we are. And unfortunately, this disease prevents many people from being able to continue their work, because it can be quite debilitating, especially without intervention. And of course, many patients are retired (or retire early, because of the disease), and they simply don't have the money available to help make the pharmaceutical companies even richer.
When anyone can order pharmaceutical products identical in quality and performance to domestic versions much cheaper than the copay amount on their insurance, something is badly broken in our health care system. And it appears that many/most generics sold domestically by the big pharmaceutical companies are apparently made by the same overseas companies that are producing these "low-cost" versions that can be ordered over the Internet.
Many people who are prescribed Entocort EC are on medicare. So where does this show up in part D plans? Typically, it's listed in tier 5 (specialty drugs), right? Apparently "Specialty" means unaffordable. In the past, that wasn't a common problem for Entocort users.
I would dearly love to see a credible and compelling argument (that included reasonable and logical evidence) why pharmaceutical products in general are fairly priced in the U. S. domestic market (bearing in mind that the same medications can be purchased anywhere else in the world for a small fraction of that cost), but frankly, I have trouble even fantasizing such a rationalization. Clearly, in this country pharmaceutical companies price drugs at whatever the market will bear (plus an additional markup), with little regard for actual cost of development and cost of production. Entocort has not only been in the black, but it has been making AstraZeneca much, much richer for many years now. And presumably Prometheus Laboratories has made a pretty penny from the product also, since they bought marketing rights. So has the price gone down, now that all those development and registration costs have been recovered many, many times over? What a silly question — of course not. Instead, the price continues to climb, in a never-ending effort to discover what the market will bear. 
It would be easy for the pharmaceutical companies to persuade people to stop ordering their medications from foreign companies. All they would have to do would be to make their domestic prices reasonable, and in line with pricing in the rest of the world. But that will never happen, because the only reason anyone ever willingly gives up a cash cow that pays off as well as the U. S. pharmaceutical market, is if it up and dies on them.
Please don't take offense at my criticism of prescription drug pricing. I'm talking about the standard operating policies of the manufacturers (and presumably the distribution system) here, not the retail outlets.
Tex
Everything you say is true, and I wish that I could agree with you because of course that is the official establishment position. But after so many members have ordered those products and found them to be exactly as advertised, including working identically to the "officially approved" (but prohibitively expensive) versions sold domestically, it's not so easy to say, "You shouldn't be doing that". Especially because in most cases, the only reason people would even consider doing that is because they simply cannot afford to buy the medications they need in this country. In some cases that's true even if they have insurance. Would you rather they do without? It's easy to believe in such standard industry caveats, when you're not afraid to leave the bathroom. But when you're up to your ass in alligators, you tend to forget why you came to the swamp in the first place.
Sure the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are going to make sure that we are constantly reminded that there are unscrupulous companies out there that will rip us off, because everyone is out to protect what they consider to be their own turf. But guess what, there are plenty of ripoffs involving bad drugs produced and sold domestically, also. We have a member who was sold a thyroid supplement (a synthetic thyroxine) that was 10,000 times her prescribed dose. That's not a misprint — it was actually 10,000 times the proper potency. She is lucky to be alive, because it took a few days to discover the problem. So does FDA approval actually mean anything, as far as accuracy and reliability is concerned?
It sounds good in theory, anyway.The main problem here is that way too many prescription drugs are priced out of reach of the very people who need them the most, and with the new insurance policies in place, that problem is growing at an alarming rate. Even people who thought they had good insurance (and originally they did), are discovering that the more expensive drugs are being kicked up into higher priced tiers, so that the copay is unacceptably (unaffordably) high. We don't have to be rich to develop MC, but our health care system seems to assume that we are. And unfortunately, this disease prevents many people from being able to continue their work, because it can be quite debilitating, especially without intervention. And of course, many patients are retired (or retire early, because of the disease), and they simply don't have the money available to help make the pharmaceutical companies even richer.
When anyone can order pharmaceutical products identical in quality and performance to domestic versions much cheaper than the copay amount on their insurance, something is badly broken in our health care system. And it appears that many/most generics sold domestically by the big pharmaceutical companies are apparently made by the same overseas companies that are producing these "low-cost" versions that can be ordered over the Internet.
Many people who are prescribed Entocort EC are on medicare. So where does this show up in part D plans? Typically, it's listed in tier 5 (specialty drugs), right? Apparently "Specialty" means unaffordable. In the past, that wasn't a common problem for Entocort users.
I would dearly love to see a credible and compelling argument (that included reasonable and logical evidence) why pharmaceutical products in general are fairly priced in the U. S. domestic market (bearing in mind that the same medications can be purchased anywhere else in the world for a small fraction of that cost), but frankly, I have trouble even fantasizing such a rationalization. Clearly, in this country pharmaceutical companies price drugs at whatever the market will bear (plus an additional markup
), with little regard for actual cost of development and cost of production. Entocort has not only been in the black, but it has been making AstraZeneca much, much richer for many years now. And presumably Prometheus Laboratories has made a pretty penny from the product also, since they bought marketing rights. So has the price gone down, now that all those development and registration costs have been recovered many, many times over? What a silly question — of course not. Instead, the price continues to climb, in a never-ending effort to discover what the market will bear. It would be easy for the pharmaceutical companies to persuade people to stop ordering their medications from foreign companies. All they would have to do would be to make their domestic prices reasonable, and in line with pricing in the rest of the world. But that will never happen, because the only reason anyone ever willingly gives up a cash cow that pays off as well as the U. S. pharmaceutical market, is if it up and dies on them.
Please don't take offense at my criticism of prescription drug pricing. I'm talking about the standard operating policies of the manufacturers (and presumably the distribution system) here, not the retail outlets.
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.
Oh I'm certainly not telling everyone to go without. In fact, I have a high deductible plan and my first months supply of GENERIC entocort and Lialda were upwards of around 700 dollars. Despite what some people may think... I, as a pharmacist, do not benefit either way. Whether that be someone paying a huge amount for a brand or generic or not. In fact it pains me greatly to see some individuals going without necessary medication because the drug cost is so insanely high. My concern is with safety. I took a peek at that website and found budesonide EC to be something around $15? That's insane considering the cost I get when I look it up at work is nearly $600.
Yep, and their product apparently works just as well as the version you are selling, because no one here has ever complained about any difference in treatment results. Healthcare is insanely overpriced in this country. The pharmaceutical manufacturers and insurance companies keep getting richer (at a ridiculous rate), and the rest of us keep getting poorer. And I have a hunch that most physicians are caught up in this whirlwind much as we are, and they are probably looking at declining incomes relative to increasing workloads, due to more government regulation, and increasing insurance company control.BearcatRx wrote:I took a peek at that website and found budesonide EC to be something around $15? That's insane considering the cost I get when I look it up at work is nearly $600.
I apologize if my post sounded as though I were accusing you of profiting from the high cost of medications, because that certainly wasn't my intention. We all realize that you are a middleman, forced to pass on your costs when pricing products.
I used to be in the wholesale corn business as a processor. One of the products I sold was 50 lb bags of "Deer Corn" (which of course is ordinary field corn, but if you don't put "Deer Corn" on the bag, deer hunters assume that deer won't eat it.
Ranchers and farmers don't care what you put on the bag, because they know that corn is corn.) Anyway, anytime corn was expensive, because of a drought or whatever, everyone automatically assumed that I was making more money, with every price increase. Of course the opposite is true — I was actually making less (per invested dollar), because I used a fixed markup per bag (based on processing costs), regardless of the input cost. And higher prices also mean lower sales volume, so that also cut into my profits.I appreciate your viewpoint.
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.