Mike Carruthers:
Taking prescription drugs can cost a lot of money.
Edward Jardini, M.D.:
Eye medications -eye drops - can be as expensive as any others, sometimes costing
over a dollar per drop. Dr.
Edward Jardini, author of the book How
to Save on Prescription Drugs… And
because the eye can only really hold one drop of medication, instilling a second
drop is wasteful. Using one drop of medication instead of two cuts prescription
eye drop costs in half. Dr.
Jardini says it is very common for doctors to prescribe more than one drop per
eye, per dose. But
a review team of ophthalmologists recommended that for almost all eye preparations,
one drop would be the maximum dose. The
strength of the prescription pills you get makes a big difference in the ultimate
cost. Few doctors
or patients realize that different strengths of a particular medicine actually
have the same price. For example: the 20, 40 and 80 milligram doses of Lipitor
(which is a popular medicine for treatment of cholesterol) all cost about the
same. So if you were prescribed the forty milligram dose for example, buying the
eighty milligram and cutting the tablets in half would cut your prescription cost
in half. And even when higher dose tablets cost more, they're rarely double the
cost. At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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