LittleStars, not too sure whether canada has the specific compound for 17p to make it. I'd have to look into it. As far as Makena, because it was recently passed by the FDA, the drug is too new and not all pharmacies can get the actual facts about how to get the drug from the company and how much it will actually cost. My pharmacist says they are totally thinking it will be a top tier and we'll have to pay 40% of the 5000.00 and multiply that by 20 doses and it's STILL out of this world.
My opinion is that this will be one of MANY drugs the FDA approves. If regular people can't afford the drugs or medical care then they'll be pushed into the universal care program they want to implement. In my opinion, even though I'm apposed to national healthcare here in the U.S. because they can't even handle spending themselves let alone tell me what kind of healthcare I can have, they're willing to PUSH me into it because if I can't afford to pay the 30,000.00 to save my baby, I'll be willing to go the length to do it if I'm pushed into national healthcare.
Anyways, without trying to get into politics. I'm just not so sure OUR medical system will end up the way the NHS is in Europe or Canada because we have idiots who can't balance the checkbooks already in Gov't, who can't seem to keep our federal post office above water nor can handle the department of motor vehicles.
I get what they're trying to do by making drugs that used to cost 10.00 approved by a sole pharma company. It's greed and a way to push people into the health system they deem suitable for the little people like me.
At any rate. now that I got a little hotheaded.
My pharmacist is STILL working it out with the new company to see how the heck they'll despense this and they are trying to figure out the insurance aspect as the drug is so new now that not even the insurance agencies have a clue as to this drug. I found it funny it was on National news tonight. I do pray that it sheds some light for those of us who need it to save our babies and somehow the stupid idiots in congress figure out how to undo what they did that will costs us millions of dollars.
Did I mention that the company Making Mekena is writing cease and desist letters to the compound pharamcies?? There are only TWO left who haven't gotten them and it's only a matter of time before they get them. I'm told the pharmacy will only dish out a months supply because its a sterile injection and will only last for a month until the formula expires. So if the company making Makena sends the cease and desist letters along with a law suit, I could be in big doo doo having a months supply and not enough for the rest of my pregnancy for up to wk 36.
((sigh)) That's where I am right now. Trying to laugh because it's so rediculous.
Thank you SO much for your comforting encouraging words. You have a heart of gold and I thank you for your tips. I WILL check to see if by chance Canada carries the 17P. I'm not sure how that would work but I do know that my perinatologist would prescribe it for me for a Canadian pharmacy if it was possible to fill it there and the drug was made with the same compound. THAT is the issue though. How does one go about investigating all this stuff??
Love and happy sleep for you all. May you wake up rested in the morning dear friends!
dad is already planning on what wood to use to make the crib and cot and mum is starting her knitting tomorrow 
they are under strict instructions to keep it quiet for another month! 
xxx
