Anti-Whatever, anxiety, depression...It can be cheap!

The brain is probably the most complex ever known. Neurons, neurotransmitters, synapses, neural networks, and grand mal seizures. Surely the two most common problems regarding this organ, anxiety and depression, must need really fancy, sophisticated medication(aka expensive), right? No...for better or worse little has changes pharmacologically in this arena for a few decades. But two goods things come from this...clinical experience and cheap meds!!



I'm starting a new categorization system. Let's see how it goes:



(I use drugstore.com for prices, except when I know they are on a $4-5 list at Wal-mart, Kmart, or Target. Prices based upon a month supply)



Rip-Off Meds:



Lexapro: $86



A legal way to make more money from the same drug, from your friends at Forest Labs.



Luvox(fluvoxamine): $63+

Might have had a chance, but then Columbine happened.



Expensive, but maybe worth it:
These two work slightly different so maybe have a higher value.


Cymbalta: $120



I just love the look of the capsules!! A pharmacologic fashion icon.








Effexor XR: $126-400+
Effexor-regular(generic): $60-100+

The regular Effexor might be cheaper, but patients hate taking things more than once a day, and three times...forget about it!



CHEAP MEDS:


Prozac(fluoxetine): $4

I heard that it free if you drink tap water, too!

Celexa(citalopram): $4

Once a great product for Forest Labs, then forgotten about when sexy-looking, high-margin Lexapro came knocking.

Zoloft(sertraline): $16

Whatever happened to those commercials with the happy and sad eggs?

Trazodone: $4

A huge off-label market for no-sleepiness(insomnia), seems like its destiny.




That should wrap it up, feel free to comment on the new categorization. Or just comment about anything since nobody has left any comments yet anyways.

ZZ out.