The insurance doesn't cover Horizant and the paper they sent my Dr says it can't be appealed because it is Gabapentin. I can take Gabapentin and get the same results. I say Bullshit!!!!! When I went to bed last night my pain on the pain scale was a 9. My legs throbbed and I did very little yesterday. Well, not enough that my legs should've hurt like that. I'll be making a Dr appt tomorrow. He's either gonna call the insurance company or find me something better. What really gets my guff is I told him I was on Gabapentin before at 3600 mgs a day when I switched to Horizant. Did he listen? He said, it's Gabapentin, there's no difference. I couldn't believe the difference when I first made the Gaba to Horizant switch. Lucky for me I have almost 3 mths of Horizant on hand. Hehehe. Am I switching back? Yup!!!!
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Stupid insurance.
Good for you 👍. I hope you can work things out and get back on Horizant🙏😉. I take it that it works much better? Ken 🐾🐾
1200 mgs a day of Horizant verses 3600 mgs of Gabapentin and the Horizant actually got rid of the pins and needles feelings in my legs. I take Lyrica for the burning.
my insurance tried to tell me that ampry and gabapentin was the same thing. Creative but dumb ways to get out of paying
I think I might've gotten a little belligerent about Amprya and Gabapentin being similar. Would've had to say that's like saying there's no difference between a squirrel and a deer. Why are there 2 different hunting seasons for them?
You can just say by the time I got off the phone my meds were being shipped out
Good, Good, Good, Good. Very Good, Very Good. Sometimes it is good for us to release the stress.
You are right on the money. There is most definitely a difference between gabapentin and horizant. I have taken both for restless leg syndrome. I could not tolerate gabapentin. Horizant I have no problem at all, except that it doesn’t work that well after a while. Horizant is also extended release (once a day) whereas gabapentin you need to keep a steady dose in your system, at the risk (with me anyway) of becoming zombie-like.
Take what YOU need to.
I take Horizant twice a day. I also need checked for RLS. My legs feel like there are a bunch of fingers pushing on them at the end of the day. Not spasm like. At least my legs aren't jumping around but if I move them it seems to settle some.
I have to admit, the RLS is probably one of the worst things ever. It’s all the time, day and night, sometimes in one leg, sometimes the other, no rhyme or reason. The only help I get is with carbidopa-levodopa which I have to take at least once every 4 hrs or so to stay ahead of it, if the crawling feeling starts, it returns with a vengeance and it takes at least an hr for the med to take effect. Plus I take the horizant once a day around 5pm.
Ain’t life grand??
Yup. Life is super-dooper. Hahaha
How many mgs of Horizant do you take?
600mg once a day. It was upped to 900mg but it was too much, even taking it at night. I was too foggy the next morning.
I tried backing down to 900mgs close to 2 years ago but the pins and needles pain was to much. The Dr wanted to back me down off the full dose so if I needed to raise the mgs I take. I could.
Just throwing tis out there regarding RLS , done them all for the rls, gabapentin, alternating with other RLS meds, as they do stop working. It's been quite a while now, but 2 magnesium citrates 250mg softgels. taken 2 hrs b4 bed, (have to set an alarm to remember), but that does the trick for me. Just a vitamin supplement that works better than any script did!
Definitely worth a shot. Thanks for the info!
Gonna try it also. Thanks
Lucky you to have an extra supply on hand. My prior authorization for Horizant ran out so I have been without it for about 2 weeks now. I sleep fewer hours each night because I am woken up by the intense pain of laying in bed. How can the insurance company pretend that you don’t need your medications anymore when they just paid for it every month for the previous year? Nobody wakes up on January 1st cured and no longer in need of the medication they relied on every month just to survive the previous year.
I just switched insurance companies. That's where mine is coming from. But, I do agree with you. The reauthorization is to make sure it's still working for you. I think, could be wrong, I have before. I will be again. Just saying. Hope you can get it straightened out. Soon!!!
I just went to my neuro and due to my pain being at a 9 also he prescribed Horizon and my insurance didn't cover it either. He prescribed another medication along with Baclofen again. He told me to increase Baclofen. I don't think it helps, but I will try it again. As for Horizon the insurance companies don't understand our pain. They suck. Good luck with everything.
Hi, I pray your doctor gets this right for you and you can get back to feeling your best! Prayers and Godspeed. I went through a monster of a fight with Copaxone and the astronomical Co - Pay. Glatiramate is not quite the same for me. Give them a "TKO Punch with patient justice!!!!!!!! Keep me posted.
Peace and Blessings,
NeeC
Sent my pcp a message today about my medicine issues. He's the Dr that's in control of that problem. Let's hope it gets fixed soon and hopefully he answers me tomorrow.
Well my pcp upped the dose of gaba which tells me(correct me if I'm wrong) he's playing the insurances game. Showing that the Gaba won't work. The reason I think this is I was told to call in a couple days if the dose needs increased. It went from 1200 to 1800. Standard increase. It'll take a little time til I hit top dose, cause it is 3600 mgs a day. But, gotta play the game.
Was told Friday by my PCP if 2400 mgs a day of Gabapentin doesn't work to decrease the pain. I need to call a pain doctor. I'll be calling one in the morning.
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