Ezetimibe - Split Your Dose!

[crispybacon!]

Came across this article suggesting 5mg Ezetimibe is just as effective at 10mg. Split those tabs and save some $$!

Ezetimibe 5 and 10 mg for Lowering LDL-C: Potential Billion-Dollar Savings With Improved Tolerability | AJMC

This retrospective study strongly suggests that splitting a 10-mg ezetimibe tablet yields a 5-mg dose that is clinically equivalent to the 10-mg dose.

www.ajmc.com

 

[Photon]

A tab is 3c from india

 

[Whistles77]

A tab is 3c from india

Really? 36c from PCT. Should i be looking harder?

 

[Photon]

Really? 36c from PCT. Should i be looking harder?

There's an IndiaMart thread where we buy and review IndiaMart vendors.

 

[BP_6]

Well, the pills I have a script for are cheap, and tiny, not scored, and insurance pays a good chunk. The price savings for me vs the effort to try to cut such small pills in half would not be worth it.

 

[crispybacon!]

I’m buying through TelyRx w/o insurance. So if you’re in a similar situation, this may still be helpful information for you.

 

[5TheNegative]

I’m buying through TelyRx w/o insurance. So if you’re in a similar situation, this may still be helpful information for you.

Any reason you do that instead of using india pharma?

 

[crispybacon!]

Any reason you do that instead of using india pharma?

Honestly, I’ve only recently added eze, so mostly convenience since I already use TelyRx for a bunch of stuff. But also, I don’t order international for fear of losing my travel privileges. I know there are domestic resellers, but at that point the markups and other factors steer me back to where I’m at.

TelyRx is $50 for 90x10mg tablets. If 5mg is the effective dose, I’m spending $0.28/dose. And they offer discounts all the time on top of that.