anyone know the average price of spiro per month?

Depends on a great many factors. I paid like $10 a month when I was on it, but the amount of pills I took and the dosage of those pills may well make that price high or low depending on your situation. I stopped taking spiro, and when I was on it, the dosage was fairly small.

Now I am on Bicalutamide, Estradiol, Dutasteride, and micronized progesterone. I start the P next week and even with all that without insurance I am still only spending $67 a month on hormones. I did shop around for the best prices I could find and everything is generic, but hormones shouldn't cost too much. Spiro was a fair bit cheaper than Bicalutamide too (though I am not even taking a whole pill of Bicalutamide a day whereas I was taking 3 sprio pills a day so the cost per pill makes it look lots more expensive but for the cost per month it isn't that much more.

10 dollars isn't bad at all

Without insurance, I payed like 60 dollars once for a 3 month supply (if my memory serves me right).  With insurance, the copay was like 5 dollars or something (again, going off my memory).  Nowadays, I have no copay with my current insurance and have no problems.  As you can see, a lot of this depends on what prescritpion coverage you have.  Also, going to the right pharmacy is important as well.  Some will charge you more for your medication than others and some may offer you discount cards and stuff.  You can try a site like goodrx to find pharmacy's in your area that offer more affordable prices.   

Quote from: Annabolton on June 30, 2014, 08:34:34 PM
anyone know the average price of spiro per month?

Cheap

I believe that I paid around $30 for a 90 day supply at a typical dosage. I did discover that the prices do vary substantially from store to store. I checked 4 different nationally recognized pharmacies and some were charging nearly double what I paid at the store I did get it from.

Mine, with average insurance, is just dollars per month - like well under $10.  Very cheap, and very cheap without insurance too - the 25mg tablets are on Walmart's "$10 for a 90-day supply" list, and I bet other pharmacies offer it in the same manner.  It's a generic blood pressure kinda medicine and if the baby boomers need it, you can bet that they'll stamp their feet until they get it for next to nothing.

It all depends on what dosage you take though. I myself am on the high-end of usual dosages... far as prices I could find locally was a good $110+ for just a single month of it without insurance which was quite disheartening. Then again, for my whole regimen the local pharmas tried to charge me close to $800 for just a months worth as it is with those discount cards raising prices on some rather than lowering. I'll have to continue searching about for cheaper locales .. and hopefully find one.

Quote from: LifeInLimbo on July 02, 2014, 01:00:24 AM
It all depends on what dosage you take though. I myself am on the high-end of usual dosages... far as prices I could find locally was a good $110+ for just a single month of it without insurance which was quite disheartening. Then again, for my whole regimen the local pharmas tried to charge me close to $800 for just a months worth as it is with those discount cards raising prices on some rather than lowering. I'll have to continue searching about for cheaper locales .. and hopefully find one.

Ouch.  Did you try online pharmacies?  $110 for spiro - unless you were eating enough of it to kill a horse - is absolutely outrageous!  Even on the high end of the dosage spectrum, it would cost a fraction of that to buy the smaller pills and double/triple/quadruple up.  And $800 for the entire HRT package is extortionate - five to ten times what it should cost even without insurance.  Those figures are so high that it sounds like your pharmacy just doesn't want to deal with trans people.

Those prices are truly shocking.  Is there some kind of implicit anti-trans price thing going on where you are?  Do all medications cost this much, or is it something that is unique to your transition-related medication?

Quote from: __________ on July 02, 2014, 03:22:06 AM
Ouch.  Did you try online pharmacies?  $110 for spiro - unless you were eating enough of it to kill a horse - is absolutely outrageous!  Even on the high end of the dosage spectrum, it would cost a fraction of that to buy the smaller pills and double/triple/quadruple up.  And $800 for the entire HRT package is extortionate - five to ten times what it should cost even without insurance.  Those figures are so high that it sounds like your pharmacy just doesn't want to deal with trans people.

Those prices are truly shocking.  Is there some kind of implicit anti-trans price thing going on where you are?  Do all medications cost this much, or is it something that is unique to your transition-related medication?

That's the thing, I simply called around to the places rather than physically showed (cept for one of them, that one being CVS and they know the family well). The prices were give or take 5-10% depending where. I called AHF, Walmart, Walgreens, and with CVS's prices they were roughly the same. My Dr. recommended a compounding pharmacy for my injectable estrogen which ended up being $48+$7 which cut the price down to about 10% the price of one of the medications but didn't on the others.

For my use I was using online pharma's foryears and my whole regimen then cost around $120 but wanted to go local after the FDA gave me troubles with the last package. They held it for well over a month with my asthma medications (which are 10x the price locally as well) in it and I was cutting it too close to running out.

I thought Walmart had more or less similar pricing no matter the location since FDA was mentioned I can only assume This is the US where this ultra high price was found but walmart shouldn't charge that much at the very least.

I can't say the FDA has ever been an issue with me, customs sometimes holds my stuff to verify the contents include nothing in the controlled substances list.

I am just blown away at those prices I couldn't even come close to affording HRT if I had to pay $800 a month.

I just paid 11 dollars for a 180 day supply