Asthma Medicare fund open at Copays.Org

[moriah]

I have severe asthma, and take an extremely expensive, triple-actiom inhaler that I'd never be able to afford without this copay assistance program.

So I wanted to share. Sometimes it's only open for a day, so I signed up for text messages telling me when one of the three asthma funds open up.

If you go to the website, you'd choose "Patients and Family", then in the list of conditions choose "asthma". (You do need a doctor to confirm your diagnosis of asthma, but most doctors know when they prescribe such expensive medicine that patients need help to afford it. Trelegy, the one I take, is approved for both asthma and COPD. I have both from all my damaging lung infections, but he writes it "for asthma" and it works. So people with damage from COVID who are prescribed that med, or updraft treatments, regular rescue inhalers, etc, it may help you too.

Good luck with managing your chronic conditions!

[BigMin28]

1. Copsys.org

Doesn't work. Do I have spelling correct?

[moriah]

2. I farked up the title, was trying to post from my phone. Silly me.

It's Copays dot org -- the same word as the amount patients pay after insurance pays their share, plural form, dot org.

I'm sorry, I tried to update the title.

[BigMin28]

3. Thanks!

Looking into this for my Mom.

[Maraya1969]

4. I've had asthma since I'm a kid and have had some bad attacks where I needed hospitaliation

but starting in 2020 it got so nothing worked anymore and the asthma wouldn't go away. Two things finally fixed it that I want to share in case it could help someone else.

1. I was tested for Eosinophils and found to have Eosinophilic asthma and put on Nucala.

2. I had gastric bypass. The week before I had to cut down to 600 calories/day mostly in protein shakes, Jello and broths. It was meant to get your liver to decrease in size so they could operate. After a few days on this restriction I could breath! And then of course after the surgery I kept losing weight. I haven't had asthma like that since. My doctor told me that obesity can cause bad asthma because the fat pushed on your stomach and the acids go up your esophagus and into your lungs. That is why I chose the bypass instead of a stomach staple or other less intrusive surgeries. The way they rearranged my insides it up it is very hard for the acid in my stomach to move up the esophagus now.

Now I do not need the Nucala. Just Symbicort and occasionally the rescue inhaler.

Just FYI in case any of this applies.

[RicROC]

5. my inhalers are ordered from Canada

For 20+ years I have been ordering my Advair from Canada. Just to see if anything had changed, this past Thanksgiving I asked my local pharmacist what my copay would be.

The answer was, "$225-shall we order it?"

My response, "no thanks..I get mine from Canada for $26/each so when I order 3 months worth, it's still costs less than $100"


My go-to pharmacies:
Canada Drugs Online, Northwest Pharmacy, Prescription Point
Even if I order it from Canada, they are sent from various other places, like New Zealand, Israel, India, Turkey, etc. One can't get them overnight, but rather, in about 3 weeks, so plan for delays in shipping.