Insulin costs

[grovesy]

All pales into insignificance when you hear of some of the price hikes the people in the US are getting for their insulin - often they have to struggle to pay even if they have good insurance

Yeah we are far from perfect but what i have read on forum's that are US based the insurance limits can dictate every thing they use to treat their Diabetes.

 

[trophywench]

I was astonished to see that 25mg Levothyroxine is more than twice the price of either 50 or 100 - 4 quid as against £1 something. Not logical, Captain!

Novorapid Pumpcarts weren't on the list at all!

 

[Kaylz]

Goodness - are they still doing that to you? That cannot be making things any cheaper, since every prescription request and pharmacy visit will have an overhead, and this means they are paying out 5 times the overhead costs they need to - NOT very efficient! 😱 I pointed this out to my surgery when they tried to reduce me to 100 strips per prescription, I'm not sure they always take it into account with their 'policy'.

The past twice I've put in a repeat I've only got 100 test strips, first of all they were only giving me 50 at a time, 1 prescription I got 200 and now down to 100 x

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I've had that too @Kaylz and the diabetic nurse I see at the surgery sorted it for me.
Looking at those prices my basal is £33 for 3 pens, a bargain compared to some others lol!

 

[Kaylz]

Yeah I'm going to mention it to Paul on Tuesday as I can't be ordering every couple of weeks, as it takes a few days for prescriptions I usually order the day I open the last pot, it's getting to be a nuisance doing it so often, feels like I'm never away from the chemist, yet when I got my new pen the other week they gave me 20 cartridges of insulin x

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

Blimey, that's a lot lol!

 

[Kaylz]

Blimey, that's a lot lol!

It's a good job it's got a long shelf life put it that way lol x

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I've got loads of novorapid pens in my fridge 🙄

 

[Kaylz]

Well I've plenty of cartridges now haha and I think about 4 Tresiba pens and a pack of leftover Novorapid pens x

 

[Copepod]

Please consider donating any insulin you no longer need to IDDT (Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust) to be sent overseas to people who otherwise would go without.

 

[Kaylz]

Please consider donating any insulin you no longer need to IDDT (Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust) to be sent overseas to people who otherwise would go without.

I will be Copepod but I was busy at the start of the week so didn't have time to go to the post office and when the guy from the charity got back to me he said it would be best to send it at the start of a week so it's not left sitting in the post office over a weekend x

 

[Copepod]

Great news, Kaylz. Very wise to avoid an extra day in the postal system.

 

[Ljc]

Yeah I'm going to mention it to Paul on Tuesday as I can't be ordering every couple of weeks, as it takes a few days for prescriptions I usually order the day I open the last pot, it's getting to be a nuisance doing it so often, feels like I'm never away from the chemist, yet when I got my new pen the other week they gave me 20 cartridges of insulin x

Have you got enough room in your fridge for that lt lol

 

[Kaylz]

Eeerm actually we have a fridge freezer, and a fridge so the insulin and a few cans of juice are in the fridge and everthing else in the other one haha, this wasn't the purpose of having 2 btw just so everyone knows I'm not completely weird and thinks I went and bought a 2nd fridge for it lol x

 

[Vicsetter]

I may well be wrong, this topic of donating has occurred previously, but I thought it was illegal to donate you old prescription items.
Even if you can I am disturbed that a charity organisation thinks it is all right to put insulin in a jiffy bag and post it to them (and acknowledges the problem by advising that you post it at the start of the week to avoid it sitting in the sorting/post office over the weekend).
They do not know what state the insulin is in, but it is going to children in Africa so that is OK is it?

 

[Steff]

From what I was aware things like sending off insulin to third world countries etc etc could only be sent by or requested by a qualified medical practitioner .shouldn't surplus insulin be going back to the chemist.

 

[Robin]

From what I was aware things like sending off insulin to third world countries etc etc could only be sent by or requested by a qualified medical practitioner .shouldn't surplus insulin be going back to the chemist.

If you return it to the chemist, they just have to destroy it. Surely it's better to try and put it to good use.

 

[Steff]

If you return it to the chemist, they just have to destroy it. Surely it's better to try and put it to good use.

I personally don't disagree Robin if there's a use for the less fortunate then why not give it to them but also as vicsetter mentioned it can't be allowed/legal for one of us mere mortals to just post a potentially dangerous liquid such as insulin in the post not knowing if it's safe or not

 

[trophywench]

How is it not safe in the post? If the pens break you lose the insulin, it may stink - and taste - odd - but unless you inject it into someone it can't harm anyone. You could drink a gallon of it (well, figuratively speaking not literally LOL) and come to no harm - apart from the VERY distinctive pong! You could wash in it and ditto.

 

[Steff]

Prohibited substance isn't it.?Isn't it just the same as if a work colleague asked me at work for a headache pill I gave them it and they dropped down dead (I know dramatic scenario but even so).even though they told me oh it's the pill I take,then why am I going to give it to you and not your doctor/chemist which is the correct procedure.