I just found out that with my HMO provided by my employer here in Washington State, my HRT is going to cost me $18 per month. That's sixty cents a day. This I can afford. Not bad.

Now all I am waiting for is that heart to heart conversation with my wife.

Those of us who were or are married have all been there before.

Best wishes and be prepared for the unexpected reactions.

I found a slow and gentle approach works best.

Most important, let her know that our situation has been with us for a very long time and will not go away no matter what we tried.

Congratulations. And wow... $18 a month is cheap!

Progesterone is costing me $5/mo, needles & syringes $8. Estradiol valerate presently costs me $1/month, if it were full price it would be $8/mo.

I should look into bulk syringe purchase as they might be cheaper that way than insured.

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The national chain here at Arizona offers 90-days for $10 pricing for many generic and named drugs.

Both estradiol and progesterone are on that schedule.

Further, MediCare reduces that to less than $3 each for 90 days.

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Yes.  Go slow with yoiur wife.

Your transition clock has been ticking for however many years you have known your self; hers will start ticking only from that moment when you tell her.

She will face her own challenges in her transition path as a SOFFA.

My best wishes to both of you and to your family.

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Quote from: Sharon Anne McC on January 15, 2017, 07:05:27 AM
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The national chain here at Arizona offers 90-days for $10 pricing for many generic and named drugs.

Both estradiol and progesterone are on that schedule.

Further, MediCare reduces that to less than $3 each for 90 days.

The low dosage Spiro is also on the 90/$10 list. I find that it's much cheaper to buy them and take more pills than to buy the higher dosage pills and take fewer of them. I pay out of pocket, so I watch the pricing.

All the best,
--AshleyP

First, good luck with your wife, I really hope all goes as well as possible. Yes, slow is better than fast.. *hug*

It is so nice that HRT has come down in price, that is really affordable!

I have Medicaid, and because I have an intersex issue, all my hormones are covered. But the insurance carrier I now use is very particular and won't pay for injectable E, which I prefer, so I am back on tablets. They also refused to pay for my bio-identical progesterone soft-gels, but that was a blessing in disguise. But my gyno is clever, lol, and my insurance pays waaay more for a compounding pharmacy to make me bio-identical progesterone vaginal suppositories that have the added benefit of being suspended in an essential fatty-acid base, which has had a wonderful effect on my vaginal tissue and vulva. It also works wonders on my face if I use it as a moisturizer, which I often do. I can break them into smaller pieces for the days in my cycle that I only need a little bit of progesterone, which is something I could not do with the soft-gels. It is nice to have the right E/P balance all month as my cycle warrants, finally!

As a side note, when I started on progesterone, I was prescribed medroxyprogesterone, a synthetic, but it made me  depressed. The bio-identical does not do this. If any of you have a medroxy script, and you have depression, you may be eligible for the bio-identical, micronized stuff instead, which I find better in every way.