Posted by yxibow on February 26, 2007, at 0:17:54
In reply to Re: What is Abilify?, posted by football on February 25, 2007, at 16:12:28
> Just a warning to anyone considering Abilify... It's ridiculously expensive.
All atypical antipsychotics are expensive. This was part of the CATIE study. But I still am quite affirmative that they did not emphasize the dignity and quality of life issues with conventional, offpatent antipsychotics. Greatly increased chances of TD especially with phenothiazines and uncomfortable levels of EPS. I have enough EPS even with Seroquel and I'm not taking it for a psychotic disorder. But then I have an affective disorder; neuroleptics affect people with affective disorders more.
You're always looking at $2-3 a pill for an atypical, covered by insurance at cost in varying degrees of how recently they were introduced. They'd love you to have Risperdal, which is basically Haldol at a high dose, considering its a transformed molecule of it.
And if you have to take Clozaril, even though it is managed by a generic company, it can cost up to $9000 a year, not for the medication so much as the blood testing which has to be done I believe every week for 6 months.
But then again, its about $1-$2 a dose for new SSRI/SSNRIs too.
Thankfully adjunctive medications like most benzodiazepines (except those who insist on "original"), propranolol, and anticholinergics for the most part are cheap as dirt with most insurance.
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