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Permalink Reply by Kari on May 22, 2011 at 9:34am

$10 a month for 3 bottles Novolog (my copay)
$0 for 250 test strips (no copay)
$0 for pump supplies

.........I obviously have amazing insurance. (Only a few more months of that, and then that insurance plan has to go bye-bye, sadly)

Copays to see dr. are also $10, but I don't see a dr. every month - between endo and retinologist appts we'll say I average $5/mo for dr. visits (after I've paid my deductible for the year.......which again is super low....good-bye to that soon)

I also spend $10 a month on either juice boxes, glucose tablets, jelly beans or some combination of those three to handle hypos.

After my insurance changes I expect to be spending more like $3000 a year on diabetes (that will take some getting used to...)

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Permalink Reply by Nyxks on May 22, 2011 at 9:40am

I donit have to worry about medical visits that's already paid for by the provincial health care system (OHIP here in Ontario) all I have to pay for is everything else

I'm on insulin so that's costly in its own right regardless of dosage since each time you open a vial its only good up to 28 days and I'm on two types Lantus and Humalog

Lantus runs me about 218 without insurance a month
Humalog about 60 without insurance a month
actual supplies
200 test strips is about 158 a month
200 Insulin needles is about 66 a month
200 Lancets is about 10 a month
- so total each month is 512 (all before tax) so its not outrageous in general but its still steep.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel T2 on May 23, 2011 at 9:49am

Nothing for the endo appointments every six weeks. The provincial health insurance pays for that. The test strips are about $95 for 100 but my insurance pays most of it. I pay $6. I might go through 100-200 a month or less depending on how diligent I am. I rarely change my lancet so I expect the pack of 100 to last me 50 years. I'm on Glumetza which costs $81.54 for just over a month but I pay $14.36. Thankfully I have pretty good extended health insurance through my work. Total for supplies and meds: $20-$30.

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Permalink Reply by Jeannie Wagner on May 23, 2011 at 3:14pm

I don't even want to think about how much I spend. We have high deductible HSA insurance so we pay everything out of pocket until we hit our $6000 deductible.

Office Visit $90
Contour Strips from Amazon $54 for 100, I guess I use between 120-150 per month

Food - I order most of my supplies from Netrition. Walden Farms syrups and jams, Erythito, Xyitol, Stevia, Almond Meal, Coconut Flour, Coconut Oil, Flaxseed, GG Brancrips Crackers
Proably about $100 a month. I also buy the best quality free range meat and organic eggs which cost me a lot each week.

This is an expensive disease. But by eating right I have lowered HbA1c to 5.3

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