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<blockquote data-quote="LooperCat" data-source="post: 1702654" data-attributes="member: 468055"><p>I’m in Wales, UK. I’ve had excellent care throughout my twenty years as a diabetic, including when I was pregnant with my son and obviously needed very close monitoring. I’ve been one a basal/bolus regime for most of those 20 years, and have always been issued with as much insulin, testing kit and needles as I’ve required, sometimes at very short notice. For the first few years, I had to pay for my needles, as they were for the new pens, and brand new diabetes tech isn’t always immediately available on prescription. I quickly got into the bad habit of making a needle last many injections until it went blunt...</p><p></p><p>In the last month I’ve been given the Libre on prescription. All prescription meds are issued without charge in Wales, our system is slightly different to the English one, where you have to pay a fixed charge for certain things.</p><p></p><p>We’re on an ok but pretty low income - we manage. If I was in America I’d probably be dead because I couldn’t afford insulin. I’ve seen too many crowdfunding campaigns on social media for people over there trying to raise money for their testing strips and insulin to be confident I could manage. Rationing tests and insulin through necessity, DKAs and medical bankruptcy terrify me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LooperCat, post: 1702654, member: 468055"] I’m in Wales, UK. I’ve had excellent care throughout my twenty years as a diabetic, including when I was pregnant with my son and obviously needed very close monitoring. I’ve been one a basal/bolus regime for most of those 20 years, and have always been issued with as much insulin, testing kit and needles as I’ve required, sometimes at very short notice. For the first few years, I had to pay for my needles, as they were for the new pens, and brand new diabetes tech isn’t always immediately available on prescription. I quickly got into the bad habit of making a needle last many injections until it went blunt... In the last month I’ve been given the Libre on prescription. All prescription meds are issued without charge in Wales, our system is slightly different to the English one, where you have to pay a fixed charge for certain things. We’re on an ok but pretty low income - we manage. If I was in America I’d probably be dead because I couldn’t afford insulin. I’ve seen too many crowdfunding campaigns on social media for people over there trying to raise money for their testing strips and insulin to be confident I could manage. Rationing tests and insulin through necessity, DKAs and medical bankruptcy terrify me. [/QUOTE]
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