Because I don’t want to start insulin injections, I’ve been testing my blood glucose levels quite often, sometimes 6-7 times a day. My endocrinologist wrote a prescription for test strips. The supply order is probably for a month with three tests per day, so about 100 test strips. Even with insurance, the pharmacy is charging me $70. I still have hundreds of strips so I’m going to reject the prescription until I figure out the pricing. Unfortunately, the new year started so I have to pay the out-of-pocket amount again. Not sure what this does to my share of prescription orders. I’m still on Tradjenta, which is costing my work insurance about $10/day.
Back to my blood glucose, the above is a screenshot of the past 30 days as recorded by my meter. The upper/lower limits are 160 and 70 respectively. With the one measurement that was taken too soon after a snack, all the numbers look fine and within normal guidelines. I sent this data to my endocrinologist during Christmas weekend and she was fine keeping me off insulin if the numbers are consistently normal.
Life with chronic diseases 