Tuesday, April 1, 2008

One good economic indicator

I know that there is a lot of gloom and doom out there about the economy, but something has finally happened to me to improve my economic situation:  I CAN BUY GENERIC OTC ZYRTEC!!!
In order for me to survive, I require a daily antihistamine plus an intranasal spray.  Claritin has been OTC for a couple of years now, but doesn't work during my worst times of the year.  Allegra is still prescription, but did have a generic that only cost $10/month after my insurance made me jump through major hoops, but it still didn't work as good as Zyrtec.  In order for me to use Zyrtec, I would have had to pay full price, which up until January was about $2.33 a pill.  Then Zyrtec went OTC which dropped the price (at Sam's Club) to about $0.40 a pill.  Now it is available as a generic from Sam's Club in a 350 pill box for $17.14 which is less than $0.05 a pill!  Totaling an annual savings of $832.20 vs. the prescription price.

If you're an allergy sufferer like me, I'm sure you appreciate just how good this news is.

1 comment:

becki said...

kyle, we found this a few weeks ago and have been in heaven ever since!! love it!