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Posted by SandyIn on 3/1/2008, 12:38 am
205.188.116.204

I know this is off topic but I have went to two different diabetes forums and couldn't get any help. Probably because I am an unknown and they, like us, are a little afraid to expose certain sources such as the one some of us use, ADC. If someone here on our site also has diabetes and has a source for "cheaper" insulin I would appreciate knowing where it is. My daughter-in-law is badly in need of some reduced prices. There are times she skips because they can't afford it. ADC can't supply what she needs. Thanks for any info you can offer.
Sandy

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Posted by SandyIn on 3/2/2008, 7:52 pm, in reply to "Insulin"
64.12.117.144

Thanks for all your responses. I'm not sure who all they have applied for help to but she did tell me one outfit turned them down. I'm also not sure how they feel about begging for help. They have always managed just fine until she started having so many health issues. I went to the Lilly Free Med site and to qualify it says you need to be 200% below the federal poverty level. I would think a person would be out on the streets at that level. Something has got to be done about the health care of this country. If it weren't for ADC, I would be streching the meds out.

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Posted by Joyce in Tx on 3/2/2008, 8:54 pm, in reply to "Re: Insulin"
209.183.51.44

Let me tell you when she loses her sight and can no longer see or she can't feel her toes or fingers amoung other things she might reconsider "ASKING" for help...not begging.Do you realize just how many samples the doctors get every month.Good luck with the adventures.
Joyce in Tx

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Posted by CarolCA on 3/1/2008, 12:59 am, in reply to "Insulin"
67.164.118.40

Sandy, I know nothing about Insulin. Just found out your don't have to refridgerate anymore. Has she talked to her Doctor about this as she can't be the only person that has a problem affording it? Is there a local clinic she could go to and pay based on income. She can't go without insulin?

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Posted by Joyce i n Tx. on 3/1/2008, 6:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Insulin"
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Your daughter-in-law can go to the drug
company that makes her insulin and she can go to the doctor and tell them she can't afford the drugs.Now if she goes to the company you can only make so much money to get the drugs for little or nothing.You can also go to the to the diabetic assc. and see if they can help.

Most insulin still needs to be refrigerated but once you start using the bottles they can stay out for only 28 days and no longer thats why I keep mine in the fridge as it lasts longer for me.
Now they have these new pen types and they come into me from Liberty and they cooled with freezy packs and then I put those in the fridge.After started using it then I leave it out but when it comes to the bottles I keep those in the fridge.

Hope this helps a little anyway.

Joyce in Tx.

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Posted by CarolCa on 3/1/2008, 11:55 pm, in reply to "Re: Insulin"
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Yes, that is what was explained to me about the insulin. I thought in the past it had to be refrigerated all the time. I remember people having to have a refrigerator in their motel room or a cooler for their insulin.

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Posted by Joyce in Tx. on 3/2/2008, 12:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Insulin"
166.128.71.75

For years insulin was made from pigs but now they make it from humans.It's made in labs.I guess thats why it always had to be in a fridge.I don't really know that one.

Joyce in Tx.

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