Cole,
Get it out of the insurance company’s hands to the external review. That is where I beat them. My complaint was based on extra hepatic manifestations. I had 30 something pages of evidence and references to scientific findings and treatment recommendations. However, the biggest factor was one little note from my doctor saying I have been complaining of severe fatigue for two decades and that he could find no reason for my chronic fatigue other than HCV. The external review committee ruled harvoni was medically necessary and overturned the insurance company’s denial of coverage. That was my third prescription in 18 months. I had taken each through every appeal I thought was available. They never informed me of my right to an external review. I found out when I FOI’d them about whether they covered ANYBODY. It turns out, they only had approved people who were on the transplant list-until me. They also mentioned one other case was still under external review. Based on that, I demanded my review and got my medicine-one day short of my 4 week mark on generics.
The system is so messed up.
I am trying to do what I can to help others avoid it.
Mike

Hey Zhuk,
I think Cole is not “sick enough” to get insurance approval. My health insurance only covers people on the transplant list, I nailed them on my external review.
Mike

Good. Happy to help. This all goes back to Greg and Dr. Freeman- they are the trailblazers. I am kind of like a U.S. apprentice or whatever…anyhow, one more person gets to escape this Purgatory created by those big pharma jerks, the insurance asses and our spineless government.
Torpac. Not like Amazon. It took 3 weeks to get my funnel in Arkansas. Probably best to call and see if you can pick it up. The funnel makes this easy.
Mike

Cole,
Each time I hear from people like you its like Christmas felt when I was a little kid. NYC. I’m putting pins on a map now. They are adding up!
Since you are in NY and Torpac is in NJ, you could always switch to the 00 profunnel. What dose do you need to cap?
Mike

I don’t know. 400 mg, tightly packed leaves about 1/16 inch remaining in a 00 cap. No room for the 90 mg ledipasvir-so I make 1 sof, 1 led. I think you could get 490 mg in two 0 sized caps.
You can make it work.
Mike

I think you are fine. I always weigh out 28 doses in bulk and have ended up right on the money each time.

Yes. Two 10 gram calibration weights.
Mike

These scales would show 400 mg of, say, Sofosbuvir as: .400g
They show 90 mg as: .090g

They are precise and need to be tared(a push of a button) to compensate in gravity fluctuation due to the moon’s position.
Doubt that would make much difference.