- Cigna ?

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Cheryl - No, we get our " drugs " through Tel-Drug, I guess it is the pharmacy

part of Cigna. Can I ask a question, though? Is your GHT covered through your

MEDICAL part of Cigna or through your pharmaceutical plan? We just got a letter

telling us they were switching us to the medical plan - my husband blew a gasket

and they have decided not to switch us until 1/1/02 (we had a letter like you

telling us our copay was $70 every 3 months effective 1/1/01 - 1/1/02). I think

we better go put that letter in our safety deposit box, too!!!!

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We have Cigna too! Do you get your meds through Express Pharmacy?

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I know all plans are different, even from the same co., based on what the

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employer has signed up for. We're doing OK on our approval of GH long term,

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because tested GH defecient as well as the RSS, so our endo. pretty

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much " ignored " the RSS and pursued the GH approval through Genentech SPOC

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and Cigna just as the GH deficiency.

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Three years ago when we got the approval letter we went and put it in our

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safety deposit box because we didn't want it lost, ruined, etc. and always

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wanted to know where it was in case we had trouble in the future! It's sort

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of goofy, I know, but it was (is) so important to us because of the cost of

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the med, and all the red tape to finally get approved!

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I would dread the day my husband ever changes jobs...he's not planning

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to...we joke he's " stuck " where he is until is done growing (another 8

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years!) Actually, he's very happy at his job, thank goodness!

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Cheryl, mom to , RSS, 8 3/4 and , age 6

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>> Hi all!

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>> I was looking back in the archives today and noticed the first email I

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>sent out on April 14, 1999. Wow, that's when this list started. Storm was 3

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>1/2 years old and weighed 20 lb. 10 oz. and was 33 1/4 " tall.

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>> He now weighs almost 27 lbs. so in two years he has gained a total of

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>about 6 1/2 pounds. Also He is actually about 38 3/4 " so in two years he

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>grown about 5 1/2 " . Is this a good growth velocity. I'm not sure how

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>velocity is measured, does anyone know? Is it just how many inches per year

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>> Anybody have any ideas! The thought of 6 1/2 pounds sounds good, until

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>you realize it took two years so that is only a little over 3 pounds a

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year.

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>This can't be good. I guess it's also about 2.75 inches a year.

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>> Anybody know for sure the magic numbers. What do the insurance companies

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>look for in order to start GH. Does the growth velocity have to be under a

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>certain amount?

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>> Just curious!

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>> Thanks guys! So glad to have been here the last two years (even though I

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>got knocked off for a while when onelist switched to egroups). I don't know

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>how I could have possibly made it through these last two years without the

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>support of this group and MAGIC! A big THANK YOU followed by cyber hugs

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>> Carmen, Mom to Storm , 5.5yrs, 27#, 38 3/4 " (according to Dr. H).

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