LafayetteLady
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Joined: 5/2/2007 From: Northern New Jersey Status: offline
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SAthena, Insuance covers the cost, but the information leaflet (instructions/side effects/precautions) also contain the "savings" ino. The actuual cost, co-pay and such, so I know how much everything I take would cost. LC, Have you considered a lancet pen for your needs? You are after all just pricking your finger and those are designed for that. Here, you can buy testing supplies without a prescription, althoug I usually just contact the manufacturer and they send the monitor with lancet pen for free. After all, the profit for them is in the strips. I have several lancet pens, but prefer one that came with my aviva monitor. It uses barrels that each contain 6 needles. They can go in regular trash. I've found the others tend to be more like little razors the make a slice instead of poke a hole. Of course, now with the insulin I will need the sharps container anyway. I'm just hoping the hospital still takes the full ones at no charge. LBO, I'm just curious... does that mean you are now type 1 since you no longer produce insulin? I worked with a guy who had been using a pump since they first came out. I wish now we had talked more about the whole figuring out carbs thing. He and I were an odd pair. I could always tell just by looking at him for a second when he hadn't been eating and his levels were going off and he could do the same and know when my anxiety was rising. We worked in a restaurant. I would tell him he needed to eat something and he would tell me he would cover my tables so I could go out and have a smoke and relax for 5 minutes to get my anxiety under control. I'm sorry you had to go through that, but be grateful those pumps are now available to help you have more of a normal life. I know for my friend it was like a gift from God. He had been type 1 since a toddler. And I will have the fast acting and slow acting as well. I pick up the rest of the stuff tomorrow. I don't drive and my friend picked it up for me before he went to work. He didn't realize there were many parts to the script (or many scripts), lol. So when they said everything wasn't ready, he just took what they had ready. So I have two 100 units vials of Lantis in my fridge. But no syringes. And no Humolog. So basically useless. Chatte, I actually hadn't thought about transporting the needing even with the pens. If I remeber correctly, the pen will cap with one in place. I don't go out much, so I don't need to worry much about it, but it could be necessary. As ffor remembering, that is my bigger issue. Because I have sleep issues, I tend to not keep a regular schedule, especially for eating, which is probably my biggest issue with BS management. I just don't eat if I'm not hungry and kind of grateful for those times when I don't feel like eating everything ins sight, lol. My endo was very specific that I must eat three times a day and take the fast acting before eating. Especially for when I first get up. I really cantt tolerate food for about an hour. But I've already been making plans on how to rearrange my life a bit without making myself nuts. I almmost always have a great dinner and love my veggies. I know you are a reputed to be a great cook and that you really know your stuff. Even though I didn't intend for this thread to be about diet, maybe you could so kind as to give a couple of suggestions? I've recently devolped a passion for mushrooms, but I only know to sautee them with seasoning (although I can eat a whole can or pint when I make them). I also am big on leavy greens like spinach, kale, chard, et. Again those are either sautee or salads. I would really apprciate and love it if you (and others) could give some ideass of other ways to prepare those things. I love how I make them, but the same thing over and over will get dull.
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