Sort by: Relevance | Most Recent | Most Active | Highest Rated

We found 10 result(s) that match your search "mail order":

It sounded like the ideal situation. One phone call and all my diabeetus testing supplies and medicine would be delivered straight to my door. No last minute trips the the pharmacy. No paying out of pocket to be reimbursed later. Everything would be taken care of with one quick phone call.

I fell for it in September. Like most relationships, it started out nicely. Three or four "quick" phone calls and they promptly delivered a three month supply of test strips and an equal number of lancets. And for a girl who only changes her lancets when we change the clocks (and only if I remember to that week), I now have a 600 year supply of lancets in my closet.

At the time, they were also supposed to send a three month supply of insulin. It still has not arrived. Five or six phone calls later, they tell me they are still waiting on my doctor to return their call.

(READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (0)

---

Since I order new prescriptions usually once a month, I use an online mail order service. It makes it really easy to just type in some numbers and hit enter a few times to have my prescriptions mailed wherever I am at the time. This morning I went to refill my strips prescription (I'm on my last box so I'm a little behind). I know I've tested a lot more than normal lately and my prescription is on the low side (my fault for not updating it), but when I went to refill I double checked the dates to make sure I wasn't going to need to fax in a new prescription. I was fine, I could have ordered them two days ago if I wanted to. (READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (0)

---

I wonder if there is a better way. I have been using the same pharmacy for two years now and they have done a perfectly good job for me. But the rigmarole involved seems a bit much, even with all the modern conveniences involved. Every month before my Novolog and test strip stronghold runs out I go to the Longs Pharmacy website and plunk in my prescription numbers, store pick-up number, name, e-mail, phone number, and check a couple of boxes to get my online refill request sent off. Then a day or two later when I am sure they are ready for pick-up, I drive over to the pharmacy being actively aware of when they close because I inevitably need the Novolog by now, do the in-line wait, and fork over some money. (READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (0)

---

I know I'm not the only one to have gone through this.

 

I have an issue with my endo's office and renewing my prescriptions. I get my insulin and my thyroid medication through my endo's office. I see the nurse practitioner, K, as often as she asks me to. I get my routine blood work, I show up to my appointments on time.

 

I understand that the reason providers only give patients a certain number of refills is so that patients will check in with their providers to make sure the medication is working, is still the right one for them, that the dosage is the right one, blah, blah, blah. I GET THAT.

 

(READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (3)

---

I was busy. I thought it'd be here sooner. I just didn't take the time to think about it. The insurance company shouldn't be so slow. I have too many other things to handle. I'm still new to pumping so I haven't realized the increased needs. I couldn't really judge how much was left. (READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (2)

---

"Freaking the 'danes": In fandom, the deliberate exhibition of extreme fannish behavior before "mundanes" (non-fans) for the specific purpose of eliciting incomprehension and social discomfort. (See: bear-baiting.)

 

With eight separate phone numbers registered to the two members of this household, it's not surprising that -- despite those numbers' presence on the National Do Not Call Registry -- we get more than our share of telephone solicitations. Most of the time, they're phishing scams telling us we can "lower your interest rates" if we give them our banking information immediately; the rest of the time, they're split between trying to get us to change our telephone, Internet, television, gas, and electricity providers.

 

Until yesterday.

 

(READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (0)

---

Last Thursday, I checked the mail to find my latest test strip order in my box. At first, I wasn't even sure what the package was as it was more an envelope and felt extremely light. When I usually get strips, I receive a pretty good sized box.

 

As I opened it, I saw three OneTouch boxes smushed and open. Good thing that strips aren't fragile. Three boxes shocked me. Generally, I get six to eight boxes for my three month supply. I thought that the prescription was for one month at first.

 

Then I looked at it more closely and noticed that it'd been filled for "3 blood sugar checks per day" and I could reorder on March 16 (meaning I'd get the order early April). I couldn't believe it. I still can't really even though I've been dealing with it for a week now.

 

(READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (4)

---

I went for my 6 month endo appt week before last. I finally got my bloodwork back in the mail. That's one thing I really dislike about my doctor. I think it would be so much more effective to have the test results in front of us for the discussion.
By the way, where I write "doctor", feel free to substitute "physcian's assistant". As with most doctors who are in demand, he has 4 PAs that also see patients. The office tells you that you can make appointments with anyone, but if you want to see the actual MD, it takes a couple more months of waiting or accepting the oddball times, like 7:45 am on a Monday or 11:55 on a Friday - they close at noon on Fridays.
My HbA1c went up from 5.5 to 5.7. I realize that is still an awesome result and nothing to complain about, but I'm sure it's directly related to the 12 lbs I have gained in the past 6 months. That dreaded holiday weight that I was so afraid of? Yes, that would be about 8 of those pounds. (READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (0)

---

About most things in my life, I'm pretty systematic: I wash the same body parts in the same order in the shower each morning, can't test my sugar without first wiping my finger with an alcohol swab, take the same route to work, ad nauseum.

 

I've learned to be fairly stingy with pump supplies, too. Especially since I'm in a probation period with my employer (everyone is subject to it their first 90 days on the job, so don't think I'm a slacker and they singled me out!) and don't have benefits until Sept. 1.

 

I knew this going into the job and prepared accordingly: got sample bottles of insulin from everyone who would give it up in addition to getting a mail order prescription for three months, reordering testing and pump supplies and asking for a little extra just in case.

 

(READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (0)

---

DIABETES GIRL’S MUM SETS UP SUPPORT GROUP – S Wales Argus

 

"Em, right. Thank you all ever so much for coming out tonight to my very first support group meeting. I’m Diane. Right. My first question is this. Is it wrong that I refer to my Emily as diabetes girl?"

 

LEARN ABOUT GOING TO COLLEGE WITH DIABETES – Syracuse Post

 

Know this. He stays up all night listening to Creed, never stops talking about his ex-girlfriend and won’t share his pot.

 

IS TYPE 1 DIABETES SEASONAL? – Leinster Leader

 

"Why the long face, champ?

 

"It’s this darn seasonal diabetes, dad. I just can’t take it anymore!"

 

(READ MORE)

Rating (0) 0

Email this Comments (0)

---