Posted by Ame Sans Vie on September 10, 2003, at 14:12:04
In reply to Re: What is Xyrem?, posted by utopizen on September 10, 2003, at 13:44:13
> My insurance will pay for Xyrem for anything, and many will.
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> No insurance has a fixed policy against covering anything. If your doctor sends them enough documentation and appeals, they'll eventually cave in.Not Medicaid. I've tried.
> You don't need to wait for fibro to be approved by the FDA, I was on the phone with Xyrem for 1/2 hour talking nothing but off-label uses, much more obscure ones than fibro. The pharmacist says they get requests for medical info by doctors interested in novel applications all the time.It's not that my doctor won't prescribe it off-label, it's that Medicaid won't cover it for an unapproved use and the Xyrem just isn't worth 80% of my SSI each month.
> It may be a few hundred a week, but GLB-- that may be deadly.Not at all. It is very rapidly metabolized to GHB in vivo. For all intents and purposes, GBL and GHB are one and the same.
http://193.51.164.11/htdocs/monographs/vol71/009-butyrolactone.html
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