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OT Big increase in the number of drugstores
Clare Snyder writes:
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 07:50:53 -0400, Ralph Mowery wrote: In article , says... ...who ought to be smart enough to shop at the big boxes most of the time rather than pay drug store chains' jacked up prices... My insurance co-pay is the same wherever I get a prescription filled. Same with my insurance. However some is not on the formulary and not covered by the insurance. Then it is time to shop around and look into the Good Rx web site. Sometimes the doctor can put in a special request to the insurance company and get the price lowered somewhat. My insurance has an arrangement with a particular pharmacy that saves me considerably on the "co-pay" if I use that pharmacy - it is a nation-wide "online" pharmacy. My insurance has a mail order facility. I take 2 medications to lower cholesterol. Both free. Plus I get 90 days worth instead of 30 at a time. The mail order stuff if available is worth looking into. -- Dan Espen |
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In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 19:29:32 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote: micky writes: In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:33:23 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: micky writes: I had a back pain, saw an orthopedist, he probably mentioned ibuprofin or some thing. I had back pain, saw an orthopedist, he took x-rays, told me I had some arthritis. That was more than 20 years ago. Soon after I put in a patio and deck, started running, swimming, and now visit the gym regularly. No pain since the patio and deck. A few months from turning 74. There is a miracle cure, it's called hard work. Oh, yeah, don't overeat. If you go to a restaurant and finish the meal, you are overeating. You seem to be saying that it was more the exercise than the weight?? My weight has always been reasonable. My lifetime high was 187, now I'm 170. To give that context, I'm 5'8". My comment about weight was directed to the average fatty I see walking around. Seems to me, if you exercise more but still weigh in at 250, you're likely to have pain. In my case I attribute the aches and pains going away to being more active. And that even if your weight had been right, without the exercise, you think you'd still have the back pain?? My weight wasn't too bad, I just got lazy. I would walk, but wouldn't run because my feet hurt. Funny, I started running and my feet stopped hurting. Unrelated to weight -- in fact it was 45 years ago and my weight was fine -- but one day when traveling around the Netherlands, camping at the outdoor ice-skating rinks, I woke up in the morning and one foot hurt so bad I couldn't walk. I don't know why. I killed time in the tent as much as I could but it was my last full day and I didn't want to waste it. By 11, I took my towel and ripped out part of it to cushion my foot (though there wasn't much room in the shoe) and then I limped out for the day, while it hurt. I don't know when it stopped hurting but the next morning everything was fine. I thought it would be worse. On anoher occasion when I was in my 40's, I skidded on the ice and even with the seatbelt, my body slid under it and my knee broke the plastic lower dashboard. Next morning, I woke up and that knee wouldn't bend and wouldn't straighten. I'd think "Straighten" but nothing would happen. I could use my hands to straighen it so I could go to the bathroom and then I went back to bed and used my hands to bend it to the usual bed position. I poked at it everywhere and nowhere did it hurt at all but it wouldn't work. I think I stayed home that day and the next day everthing was fine. My gym has a scale that measures body fat, in 8 months I've gone from 21% to 17%. Sorry to be preaching, it's an affliction that most exercisers develop. You're not preaching. I asked. |
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On 9/9/2019 5:28 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:42:22 -0400, micky wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:33:23 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: micky writes: I had a back pain, saw an orthopedist, he probably mentioned ibuprofin or some thing. I had back pain, saw an orthopedist, he took x-rays, told me I had some arthritis. That was more than 20 years ago. Soon after I put in a patio and deck, started running, swimming, and now visit the gym regularly. No pain since the patio and deck. A few months from turning 74. There is a miracle cure, it's called hard work. Oh, yeah, don't overeat. If you go to a restaurant and finish the meal, you are overeating. You seem to be saying that it was more the exercise than the weight?? And that even if your weight had been right, without the exercise, you think you'd still have the back pain?? Absolutely. I have a few extra pounds on me, but it is keeping moving that keeps the back working. I have some arthritis, fairly common as we get older. Due to changes in the household, I'm not as active as I was just weeks ago and I can feel it when I get up in the morning. We have a well equipped gym for use by residents in the community so I headed over this morning. It really felt good to do a little working out. There is a bench for leg curls that I wanted to try and I watch another guy use it. Damn, not easy the way he had it set up. I moved the pin to set the weight between "sissy" and "girly man" and it worked well. I'll work my way up on that. Damn, I could lift more 30 years ago. |
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 21:01:57 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 9/9/2019 5:28 PM, Clare Snyder wrote: On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:42:22 -0400, micky wrote: In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:33:23 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: micky writes: I had a back pain, saw an orthopedist, he probably mentioned ibuprofin or some thing. I had back pain, saw an orthopedist, he took x-rays, told me I had some arthritis. That was more than 20 years ago. Soon after I put in a patio and deck, started running, swimming, and now visit the gym regularly. No pain since the patio and deck. A few months from turning 74. There is a miracle cure, it's called hard work. Oh, yeah, don't overeat. If you go to a restaurant and finish the meal, you are overeating. You seem to be saying that it was more the exercise than the weight?? And that even if your weight had been right, without the exercise, you think you'd still have the back pain?? Absolutely. I have a few extra pounds on me, but it is keeping moving that keeps the back working. I have some arthritis, fairly common as we get older. Due to changes in the household, I'm not as active as I was just weeks ago and I can feel it when I get up in the morning. We have a well equipped gym for use by residents in the community so I headed over this morning. It really felt good to do a little working out. There is a bench for leg curls that I wanted to try and I watch another guy use it. Damn, not easy the way he had it set up. I moved the pin to set the weight between "sissy" and "girly man" and it worked well. I'll work my way up on that. Damn, I could lift more 30 years ago. I think anyone over 45 can say the same!!! That said,I can still do most of what I could do at 40 - but man, do I PAY for it for a few days!!!!! My shoulders are actually better than they were 30 years ago - but my lower back is worse. My hands are the worst - with arthritis in my fingers. |
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On 09/09/2019 11:03 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
IIRC it is five years, maybe six now, of schooling to become a pharmacist but they do make a good wage. Yeah, like the doctors they have a good trade union A compounding pharmacist is one thing, standing behind the counter transferring pills from big bottles to little bottles is something else. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of background information in the materia medica but how much really gets used day to day. It's probably right up there with my mostly forgotten knowledge of differential equations. |
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 20:08:43 -0600, rbowman wrote:
On 09/09/2019 04:07 PM, wrote: The exceptions may have been down in the ghetto where chains feared to tread. The farmacia be on the corner down there, ese. In DC it was more like Yo Bro, where da drug sto be at?. |
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