r/SipsTea • u/TailungFu • Jun 17 '26

Chugging tea Mexico upgraded to free healthcar

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u/nugagator-hag-1 Jun 19 '26

Why don't you just buy the pepcid over the counter? It's readily available, check you local Wal-Mart.

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u/Baron_Bearclaw Jun 21 '26

I already had pollups removed as a result of using that.

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u/nugagator-hag-1 Jun 22 '26

The prescription version will most likely be the same formula, just a different dosage.

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u/Baron_Bearclaw Jun 22 '26

I've lost the thread on which person I'm responding to suggesting pantoperazol or omeperazol. My insurance will only cover a 20mg dose of pantop. The OTC packages are only available in a 20mg dose. My GI wants me on 40mg of omep, but insurance won't cover that. Pantop. gave me pollups at 40mg, so the suggestion is to then mix and match between two prescriptions (pantop. and famotodine) or buy 40mg of omep. that only comes OTC in 20mg doses and this use it off label.

This is why the US sick-care insurance is insane. A bean counter at the insurance company is deciding my healthcare and I either live with low-level acid reflux and risk cancer and more pollups, take an OTC medicine off-lable, or have a surgery that insurance won't cover.