"Phil Valentine received the treatment; he’s now hooked up to a heart/lung machine. Not saying it’s not a good treatment, just that it may not save everyone who receives it."
Or maybe...
"Whatever you do, just don't smoke." - Yul Brynner
Posted on 08/10/2021 1:02:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
**HERE'S WHAT WAS SHARED IN ANOTHER MEWE FORUM** :
**This is very useful Life Saving information for those in the USA.**
*Monoclonal Antibodies are one of the best therapies for those with Covid. President Trump himself was injected with Regeneron monoclonals and was released from Walter Reed Hospital in a few days, ready to resume his job.*
*Here are the Hospitals in the USA that have received shipments of monoclonal antibody therapeutics.*
*Punch in your city or ZIP Code to see if a hospital near you offers this therapeutic. Apparently, this therapeutic is available in all 50 states.*
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/therapeutics-distribution#distribution-locations
Really they told me my treatment for the Regeneron would be $300 and I had to give consent before treatment but I still haven’t received a bill.
BFLR
"Phil Valentine received the treatment; he’s now hooked up to a heart/lung machine. Not saying it’s not a good treatment, just that it may not save everyone who receives it."
Or maybe...
"Whatever you do, just don't smoke." - Yul Brynner
The monoclonal antibodies are 100% free. That’s nationwide. The administration of them may cost up to a few hundred depending on the infusion center or hospital and one’s private insurance, Medicare, etc. But I don’t think anywhere is demanding upfront payment.
They are delaying treatment for one reason.
Was the treatment given in the hospital or like me as an outpatient treatment given at another facility? I went into the hospital on Sunday but wasn’t able to get the treatment until the following Wednesday which pissed me off as every day I was declining at a rapid pace. When I finally got to the clinic where they gave the treatment they said I was right on the edge for almost being too late before they could have administered the treatment based on it being close to 10 days since I contracted the virus. What pissed me off is on Monday I spent all day on the phone trying to get info on how I can get the treatment and my discharge papers were vague saying a nurse practitioner would contact me and they never did. That whole day was wasted where I couldn’t get treatment but by the end of the day they told me someone from the Infectious Disease Associates had to contact me prior with a Telehub call and once they did that I should probably be scheduled for treatment the same day, so I’m expecting to get treated late Monday afternoon. (I am assuming it meant like a zoom call or video chat) That also never happened. Then on Tuesday when I finally got in touch with someone from that organization, they said everything was good on their end to have me scheduled but I needed to wait for the clinic to contact me about scheduling as they were limited to 3 rooms and maybe 15 treatments per day. I kept calling the clinic and they kept saying they haven’t received my info from the Infectious Disease Associates and even if they did I wouldn’t be scheduled that day but most likely Wed. at the earliest now. That was the day I got the treatment. Had there been another delay I may have been too late to get the treatment and probably would have descended into pneumonia and who knows how that would have ended.
I was on high-volume oxygen at first, at 100%, maximum flow, a step or two away from a ventilator. I showed little or no improvement for the first week and a half or two. The doctors were thus cautiously optimistic. They said I had ‘rona pneumonia, and the fact that I wasn’t declining meant my immune system plus all the treatments they were giving me, was successfully holding its own against the virus. They wanted to give me the monoclonal antibodies, but because I take two immunosuppressants, it wasn’t allowed.
As the treatments ran their course, in the third week, I started making progress. By the end of the third week, the progress had been so rapid that they started prepping me to be released in another week or two. I was discharged four days later on the 25th day of hospitalization.
I’m recuperating now at home. Getting back my strength, regaining lung capacity. Making progress.
The little old lady on oxygen waiting for her lung X-ray does not need you telling her to get still another WuFlu test thank you very much desk clerk!
But treatment protocols seem to be coming down from administration and for the most part they are not medical people. Admin is necessary but they should not be sticking their noses into medical matters.
do you need a prescription and how much does it cost or does insurance cover it?
Thank you.
I’m in an infusion center dead zone even though I live near a small city of more than 60,000 people which is a regional medical hub. The nearest infusion center is in a town of less than 9,000 people 47 miles away from me. Weird. It’s 47 miles that I’ll travel if I need to and if I qualify, but it’s weird. The next closest is 100 miles away in a town of about 5,000 people.
Valentine received Remdesivir, which is different than Regeneron's Monoclonal Antibody Therapy. Not sure if he received Regeneron, but it should be administered as early as possible after the first signs of symptoms (especially for at risk populations).
Was the infusion clinic part of the same organization as your hospital.
Your nightmare is what I fear.
You brought up an interesting point. The Government has been running ads for Regeneron (MABs) and infusion centers for a couple of months. I asked my primary care physician if he/she/they would prescribe the infusion. PCPs are not allowed to - has to go through the "COVID" doctor. I asked other PCPs and they laughed about what they called the COVID CLUB doctors. Then I found a catch 22. The patients at the infusion center are mostly immuno suppressed and you can NOT receive, as a COVID patient, an infusion at the centers recommended. Anyone have a way around this?
No the hospital discharged me the same day but 8 hours total and 5 of those hours was strictly waiting in between xray/ blood sample ( the young kid was having trouble finding a vein so not sure if it was him or due to the Covid, but both my arms are black and blue from him missing my veins) and getting me a room to monitor my vitals. I was discharged without any treatment, not even cough medicine or even a prescription for Tamiflu or codeine cough medicine, or some kind of steroid treatment for my lungs. Short answer is no, the place they did the infusion was the very same urgent care that initially refused me as a patient due to Covid. At the infusion clinic they told me that whomever told me that over the phone was incorrect and shouldn’t have told me that. I had mentioned i called 4 off the urgent care centers in my town and they are all affiliated with the hospital and they all just told me to go to EMERGRNCY ROOM that they don’t take Covid patients.
My plan is to go to a hospital that also does the infusion to hopefully cut down on red tape delay.
You can ask for an ultrasound to help them find a vein. I have very difficult veins. The one that looks the best is the one they wreck because it rolls. I have started to carry a pic of the mess they make with my arm...especially if they have to insert a catheter. Since then it seems to cut down on the problem.
Thanks!
Btw..for those that are waiting on a script you can get an otc budesonide from walmart.clearly not as good but it is something. I bought some to have on hand until i found someone who prescribed it for me. The script i have takes a nebulizer which i still havent gotten
For future reference
Budesonide was part of the treatment from that Dr. Bartlet last year along with hydroxychloroquin, zinc and zpac. Didn’t know it was OTC. What brand name does it go by?
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