A nurse told Anne1 about how to get funding for dapagliflozin.
Transcript
The nurse who was overseeing that study asked – she knew I was on Entresto – but she asked, ‘Why aren’t you taken the dapagliflozin?’ And I said, ‘Well, it was a very expensive drug and I can’t afford to take it.’ And she said, ‘Well, they’re covering that now with Pharmacare if you have got a letter from your doctor.’ So she said, ‘It would help you, you should take it.’ So, based on her recommendation, I called the heart clinic and they said, ‘Sure, if you want to take it, we’ll write the letter.’ So I started taking that. I don’t know whether it’s from the change in medication or possibly the ferritin infusions, but I do have way more energy than I used to have in 2021. So my life now is good.
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