PRBmomIs there a generic form of L-Methylfolate? Our insurance doesn't cover Deplin?
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- 8 Apr 2011 by PRBmom
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- deplin, l-methylfolate, generic, insurance
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anniepc123429 Aug 2011
after considerable research, i believe there is no generic for it. and the brand is pricey for sure. i got some sample bottles from my doc and have been on it along with pristiq for 4 days. its too early for the prisiq to kick in, but deplin goes to work in your body right away. today is the first day i actually feel like my old normal self. its amazing. and if this streak continues i am going to do a formal appeal to my insurance to put it in their formulary, or at least propose that they pay for some of it. generally here in WA, its about $100 for a months supply.
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Wow - they want $350 a month here in Florida!! I'm going to try appealing to my health care insurance carrier, too, but have little hope that they will cover it - we have a really BAD plan thorugh my employer. My son was prescribed the same combination (Pristiq and Deplin) that you are on and was amazed at the immediate response he had with the Deplin. When we couldn't afford to fill the Deplin prescription, the psychiatrist suggested that we substitute a high-dose B-complex supplement, but after being on it for 3 months my son says it doesn't have the same effect at all. We are just going to have to find a way to pay for the Deplin to get the results he needs.
can you have it mail ordered from here or canada at a better price? i haven't looked at that option yet. i also read that if your son tried to substitute the b vitamins for the methylfolate, he'd have to take 66 pills a day of the over the counter stuff to equal 1 pill of the prescription!! no wonder it didn't work for him! i'm sure he didn't take 66 tabs a day. $350 is highway robbery. can you believe that? those drug companies have their nerve. and this isn't even classified as a drug, its a "medical food". crazy over pricing once again. so glad your son got some good results from this. i'm betting it will just get more expensive because people are starting to pay attention since folks are getting good results. i would check out the canadian mail order thing. i used it a couple of times on another drug a few years ago, and it was much less than here. so good luck and let me know if you find anything you think is a good deal. by the way, are you talking about the 7.5mg tablet?
He was actually prescribed the 15 mg tablets. If we had realized that it was going to be so expensive, we could have experimented with cutting the tabs to 7.5 mg to see if he got the same response with the lower dose. But we only had a week's worth of samples and didn't know about the price until we went to pick up the prescription! One of the other responses suggested trying Metafolin as much less expensive and apparently having the same ingredients. I'm going to check into the availability of that, too, while I'm checking out ordering from Canadian pharmacies and appealing to my insurance company.
No generic; not available in Canada; most insurance will not cover since it is considered a nutritional food rather than a drug. The fact that it requires a prescription doesn't matter. I spend about $100/month for it. I am a pharmacist.