Re: Medication Justification Requests

[Guest guest]

,

Your Doctor can also do a justification letter as Lyrica is brand name and on

patent and the drug companies charge for years before they go off patent. Call

you insurance company and ask to speak to a nurse manager and tell them that the

the one drug works over the other. Most insurance companies have these

justification forms and have to be reviewed every year.

This is why it is important to document this in your medical records or a pain

diary that a medication or a different medication works. Lyrica has to add more

side effects since it first came out and am sorry it did as it has an

accumulative hormonal effect and causes swelling in hands and feet, visual

disturbances, and weight gaing that is hard to get off but it helped my fibro

flare and I had to ge off. Bennie

> Carol wrote:

> Have you considered Gabapentin instead of Lyrica? They are sister drugs in

that they work much the same way on the nerve receptors in your body. Lyrica is

the newer of the two but Gabapentin should not be denied by your insurance

company.