CamW, my doctor gives me 30-day supply of 40 mg and I was cutting them in quarters because I was at a point where even 10 mg was helping. The pharmacist didn't like it because he thought halving the half didn't give me an exact 10 mg dose every day, but even my GP agreed with me that I wasn't at a point where maybe getting 9 mg one day and 11 mg the next would be a problem and told the pharmacist so. But, I think for the moment I'd take 20 mg, just to get me over this hump, then I could wean back off.

So I got 4-month supply for $80, pretty good deal, but I just don't have $80 laying around right now, or the $150 for a physical so he'll rewrite the Rx, and I'm using my available credit for a lawyer right now. Credit card spending is one of my downfalls. I'm living so paycheck to paycheck right now, that just about anything could qualify as an emergency if it's more than gas, groceries, and a couple of movie rentals. Really, I should consider mental healthcare an emergency, but I need the credit available for the lawyer in order to get some child support that I waived the first time around. Kind of a catch-22, eh?

Dispensing fees is why the doc gives me a dose I can split because there isn't a huge difference in strength price, but I swear they charge you the same whether you're getting 1 pill or 30. That's good that they let them prescribe half a pill now. I think before they couldn't do that since they make 20 mg. If you needed 20 mg, you HAD to write 20 mg, not 40 mg and tell you to take half.

I "should" call the pharmacy and ask them if they have generic and what the price is. I "should" call my doctor and ask if he has any samples and if he could waive the yearly physical requirement just this once. But "should" doesn't mean I will.