Vets charge too much for animal medication.

[Friedchickenrocks]

Our dog's been diagnosed with Cushing's Disease, where the pituiary gland secretes too much hormone. We don't have pet insurance. She was drinking like a fish, peeing everywhere and ravenous appetite. Humans can get it too but it's rarer than in dogs. She's to be on tablets for the rest of her life and is 11. They're £96 for 30 and vet's now prescribing 180 for 6 months so almost £600. May get them cheaper online but am a bit reluctant to buy medication from the Net.

I had the exact same with my boy, we were on a cocktail of drugs. Our vet was really good and recommended pet drugs online. So I just paid for the prescription and ordered online. Gabapentin was the only one I had to send the original script off to them but they were always really quick sending the drugs out.
As an example metacam was £80 a bottle from the vets, I could buy 4 bottles and the script cost for the same amount from pet drugs online.
It just requires you to be organised in remembering to get the script and get your order in so you dont run out.
The costs are scary when a condition comes up that requires lots of tests and then ongoing medication. Ultimately vets are a business and I think we forget that as we are too emotionally involved in wanting to make out pet better/comfortable etc. It doesn't help as there's never a price list on show or prices discussed, you just get the bill after and go 'how much?!'

It is absolutely ridiculous and it's no wonder insurance for pets is also becoming extortionate.

Our dog has the cytopoint injections at £179 every 4 weeks for allergies. However luckily she can have the first 2 initial injections 4 weeks apart and then she can go months without a flare up but depending on which vet we see at the time there are a few that try to push us to have them every 4 weeks despite knowing she manages fine for months without any 🙄

It might be an idea to check out the limit as my vet was until a month or so ago only prescribe a month's worth but she then said she was now allowed to do two months