Monthly injection continuing

[tallyho]

I had my monthly injection on Thursday. Differences were I was given anti biotic eye drops to use 4 times a day for 4 days also iodine was in eyelid for a timed 3 minutes before removal. They are changing those not already in Eylea to that drug and then their next appointment is 8 weeks time. I already use Eylea so mine stays at 4 weeks as have tried a shorter time span.

[Koalajane]

Do you know why things had changed. I changed to Eyelea for my last injections as they felt it might work better that Lucentis but nothing else changed and this was 2 weeks ago

[Tetrazzini in reply to Koalajane]

It may cost less !

[Koalajane in reply to Tetrazzini]

I think Eylea costs more than Lucentis

[RP1944 in reply to Koalajane]

Eyelet is a lot cheaper than lucentis

[RP1944 in reply to RP1944]

Eyelea is what I meant

[Koalajane in reply to RP1944]

It looks like they are similar prices to me

[RP1944 in reply to Koalajane]

Well in Cyprus Lucentis is €1300 per jab, Eyelea is €825 per jab and Avastin is €400 per jab.

I changed to Eyelea as it’s cheaper than Lucentis and in actual fact I’ve

Found it works better for me.

Was also told by UK NHS clinic that Lucentis was the most expensive.

[tallyho]

As ALREADY explained in my post the MAIN reason for this is because then patients are coming back in 8 weeks not 4. This is not possible with Lucentis. We actually don’t know what the NHS is being charged for each injection because it is under the confidentiality PAS agreement the same goes for Luecentis bearing in mind private patients will be paying a different price than the NHS. My hospital is doing this for the safety of their patients it has nothing to do with money. Lucentis is more expensive because more injections are needed ( 12 per year ) but Eylea could be as few as 6 if only having them every 2 months.