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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Is there a reason you do not use the g-tube for meds? </end quote></div>
When the vitamins were chewable or liquid it was no big deal to have him swallow them. Its not even a big deal to have him swallow a few pills (like his diflucan). But, all of these vitamins is too much. Besides which, at least one is enteric coated and he doesn't have a gj-tube but a g-tube, so you aren't supposed to crush that. And, I find it a pain in the rear to crush meds, mix them into something for administration and then flush a g-tube when the child can take all his meds orally.
I *think* we can run the vitamins through the insurance again. Both the private insurance and the medical card refused to pay for OTC adult vitamins anyway, and we had to pay for them. Its the prevacid that's not a solutab that concerns me on whether the insurance will agree to fill it now that we've had the pill form filled for the month.
At least, I *hope* his medical card will cover the insurance. He has to have all of his fat soluble vitamins individually, in ridiculously high levels and liquid form. As much as anything, I'm really confused why they were dispensed the way they were, since there's no way we can get the levels prescribed in him that way and they aren't going to be bio-attainable if we tried. If the medical card won't cover the individual vitamins, I'm not sure what we're supposed to do. Our private insurance refused to cover them 3 weeks ago and they were going to run $350 each for a month's supply. But, fostermom says medical card was paying them previously, so it should cover them again.
When the vitamins were chewable or liquid it was no big deal to have him swallow them. Its not even a big deal to have him swallow a few pills (like his diflucan). But, all of these vitamins is too much. Besides which, at least one is enteric coated and he doesn't have a gj-tube but a g-tube, so you aren't supposed to crush that. And, I find it a pain in the rear to crush meds, mix them into something for administration and then flush a g-tube when the child can take all his meds orally.
I *think* we can run the vitamins through the insurance again. Both the private insurance and the medical card refused to pay for OTC adult vitamins anyway, and we had to pay for them. Its the prevacid that's not a solutab that concerns me on whether the insurance will agree to fill it now that we've had the pill form filled for the month.
At least, I *hope* his medical card will cover the insurance. He has to have all of his fat soluble vitamins individually, in ridiculously high levels and liquid form. As much as anything, I'm really confused why they were dispensed the way they were, since there's no way we can get the levels prescribed in him that way and they aren't going to be bio-attainable if we tried. If the medical card won't cover the individual vitamins, I'm not sure what we're supposed to do. Our private insurance refused to cover them 3 weeks ago and they were going to run $350 each for a month's supply. But, fostermom says medical card was paying them previously, so it should cover them again.