Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Money: is it worth saving?

I would say no when it comes to your child recovery. I can tell you by my own experience.
In a desperate atempt to save money and make the insurance pay for our kids medication, we talked to our regular pediatrician and She agreed to rewrite the prescriptions given by our DAN! Dr. Megson so we could use the compounding services Walgrens has to offer and that are covered by the insurance. So we started with Ketoconazole, the antifungal She prescribed for Liam. It is working nicely. The taste is terrible and one good thing about it is that the pharmacist told me that this medication cannot be flavoured. So we tried with bethanechol... What a nightmare! First I noticed that the texture of the medication was different from the ones I was getting at the compounding pharmacy, just like water, no color and mildly flavoured like marshmellow but still very bitter, the kids liked it and it was working beautifully. The one at Walgreens were thick, extra sweet and green. I gave to the kids 3 doses only, but it was enough to transform them into very agressive little kids. The tantrums came back, they started screaming for nothing and hitting each other and me! I realized that the meds could be the problem and stopped it right away. The next day they were a lot better.
I see that at this point, being so close to my kids so dreamed recovery I know I cannot make any experiments. It is no wonder why Dr. Megson wrote on the first prescription: " Please compound!"