This weekend provided me with a close call.  I knew that I had to re-order my insulin soon, but it was a little sooner than what I had expected.  I normally re-order my insulin when I see that I have about 3 vials left.  I thought that I had 4 vials of insulin, so I felt awesome that I was going to re-order it even sooner than I usually did.  Well, I only had 1 vial left.  There was 4 boxes in the bag still, however, I forgot that I took the vials out and didn’t throw the box out because I was too lazy. Last time that is going to happen. I am not worried too much anymore because...

I have tweeted and posted a few times lately that I am switching back to the One Touch Ultra strips from my Freestyle Lite strips because the insurance company is charging 6 times the amount, $25 as opposed to $150.  I had an older One Touch Ultra Link meter from about 3 years ago that I had used a few times, but of course the battery was dead in it when I went to use it.  I was looking all over my house because I knew I had to have had another One Touch meter somewhere around the house.  And then I found it. This nice, small, convenient blue One Touch Ultra Mini meter.  I was all excited...

I mentioned previously that I was switching to One Touch Ultra test strips instead of using the Freestyle Lite strips.  The reason is that Medco changed the Freestyle Lite to a tier 3 which is $150 for a 90 day supply, as opposed to One Touch Ultra’s which are only $25 for a 90 day supply.  I called the pharmacy today to see what I had to do in order to get the new strips ordered.  It seemed like it would be an easy process.  The customer service rep was very nice and helpful, so thank you for that, because unfortunately there are a lot of bad diabetes companies out there, trust me...

I have not had an appointment with my endo in a really long time.  The last 3 appointments that I was supposed to have were either cancelled by myself or by the doctor because of scheduling conflicts.  I think that the last one that I had was in December.  That also means, that is the last time that I got my blood work done.  I had a script to get the blood work done for each of the appointments, but I never did it.  Now I have to have the office mail me another script because they are only good for 30 days.  Sometimes this gets annoying, but it’s all part of living with diabetes...

On January 1, 2011, my insurance, United Healthcare, who uses Medco as their mail order pharmacy, made the decision that the type of insulin that I use, Novolog is a tier 3 drug.  What does that mean?  That means that instead of last year when I paid $25 for a 3 month supply, I now pay $150 for a 3 month supply.  I noticed that Humalog, which I used to use before I went on an insulin pump, is still a tier 1 drug and still costs only $25 for a 90 day supply.  When I asked why Novolog was bumped up to a tier 3, they said they didn’t know, which I didn’t expect that exact person...

Ok, I posted earlier in the week that I was getting a little nervous because I had to re-order my insulin shortly, but it was with a new insurance company and something always seems to go wrong.  It is only a one month RX, so I didn’t call it into the insurance company and use their mail order because it wouldn’t make sense to do that.  The nearest pharmacy to my work is Target and I wanted to drop it off today and pick it up tomorrow.  So I went through the process today to get the RX filled. I called my doctor and had them fax a prescription to Target.  I waited a few hours...