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by musictubes 1336 days ago
Can confirm. It helps me out. It is a potassium channel blocker that somehow improves nerve conduction in the lower body. It has been available at compounding pharmacies for a very loving time. A company took that, made it a time release pill, went through the FDA hoops, and then released it as Ampyra. Like all MS drugs it was super expensive. Now the generic is available. Still expensive, the number I see is something like $1100 a month. My pharmacy told me they bill the insurance company $180 lol.

If you don’t have insurance or it doesn’t want to cover it, you can get a prescription and a compounding pharmacy can make it for you. If they don’t do time release you’ll have to dose every 3 hours or so. It’s a lot less expensive though. Last time I checked it was less than $100 a month.