• GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If you’ve ever had someone close to you develop alzheimers, especially family where it was then more likely that you would develop it, you would have no problem paying for drugs to prevent it for life. It’s probably the cruelest thing that can happen to a person in life.

      • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        And would you take a tablet a day to prevent it? As someone in roughly the same situation as you, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

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          36 minutes ago

          Maybe, if the side-effects are close to nonexistent and I can afford it.

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          20 hours ago

          Pretty much depends on the price. If it is over the counter painkiller pricing yes if it is hiv med pricing no