Today's word is "formulary"

[redbird]

Which is current insurance jargon for "we won't pay for the medicine you've been taking, you have to change to something cheaper."

So the friendly pharmacist called my doctor, and instead of Celexa I have something called Lexapro, which is supposed to be as good. I hope so. It will certainly be less convenient: the instructions read that I am to take "1/2 to 1 pill daily".

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[carbonel]

How odd. My insurance company won't pay for Lexapro (which is actually the newer, "better" formulation unless I try Celexa first and have problems with it. I seem to be tolerating the Celexa just fine barring minor queasiness, so it doesn't matter.

The doctor told me that Celexa is going to be going generic in the next year or two (at which point my co-pay will halve, which is nice), but Lexapro is still quite new.