#aimovig

I've been taking it for 5 years.

5 years = 60 months. 60 months at $5/month = $300 total.

Now? What I can expect to spend for 2026 alone is nearly twice that amount.

1 year = 12 months. 12 months at $49/month = $588.

With no warning other than this one email. The cost isn't changing from $5 to something reasonable like $10 or $15. But to $50 after at least 5 years of staying the same price.

I can't believe I have to pay a monthly subscription service to not have migraine. And I still have migraines! The aimovig reduced them from 15x/month to averaging about 5x/month and I am over the moon about it, because living with that much pain is untenable, and I can't go back.

(And there is only one other drug with similar effects on the market, but my doctor doesn't want me to switch to it yet, because she knows from other patients that my tolerance to aimovig will eventually go down to the point of it no longer working and then I'll have to switch to the other thing. Considering I can expect to have migraine for the rest of my life, she's trying to maximize my ability to use medication.)

It took my workplace forever to decide to implement a rotation schedule for the office. I work in the judicial system so while I'm not deemed an essential employee, I'm still an essential employee. Does that even make sense? I dunno. But, only having to come in two days a week has reduced my stress and migraines immensely.

Speaking of migraines, I started Aimovig a few months back and WOW! What a difference! I still get them but the really bad ones seem to be staying away. We're heading into hurricane season now so I'll be interested to see how effective Aimovig will be during it.

I'm only covered on it for three months, so in that time I'll have go meet with my doctor and show marked signs of improvement for continued coverage. I am privileged to even afford it at all.

I live in Massachusetts, which gives me very good health insurance in exchange for being Broke AF. The market price on this bad boy is $769.99. Under MassHealth CarePlus, I pay $3.65.

So, I realize that, compared to a lot of people's daily injection kits, my monthly injection kit is puny. But here we are. There's the autoinjector, an alcohol wipe for skin prep, a cotton ball to apply pressure to stop incidental bleeding at the end, and a sterile single use bandage to cover the puncture.

Today, I got lucky and found a painless injection site. Last month, I hit a major muscle cluster and was sore for nearly a week. The needle in the injector isn't exactly small, so yeah. I'm grateful for finding a painless site this time.