There's also Ebay. I've seen boxes of 100 with a great expiration date (about a year) and the winning bid was 20 bucks.Wouldn't that be a neat invention, reusable strips. The strip industry is a huge business and they really do rip us off. I remember my first year I did buy my strips from the pharmacy at $110 per box. I then discovered online pharmacies which sell the exact same strips for $40-$60 per 100. My insurance doesn't cover strip costs so I am forced to go online. The Relion from Walmart is by far the cheapest.
Thank you for the tip Shanny. I'll look into the variety of meters at our pharmacy. I am on "tight control" so i use the strips 3-4 x per day; but we are covered by insurance so it's not so bad for us. I think for poor people the drug companies might collaborate on this expense.They are not reusable. I switched to the ReliOn meter - those strips are about 40¢ each.
Damn, you guys are lucky, although I hear your food is extremely expensive there.Horrified that strips are so expensive over there Strips here are subsidised by NDSS and cost 14.20 for a box of 100 and those on benefits/low incomes they are around 2.00 mark. I used to reuse my syringes as they were expensive and diabetic educator said it was ok as long as kept in packet and stored in fridge!! How times have changed!!!
OUICH!!!! Lancets aren't subsidised here as yet around $15 to $20 for box of drums (6) Do what we did partition government to subsidise them along with syringes pens and needles and consumables for pumps!!!! We have to get from either chemist or diabetes Australia, as not available in department stores here. Yes sadly our foods is expensive but we grow our own basic vegies and fruit and the flood water didn't get high enough to wipe out the vegie patchDamn, you guys are lucky, although I hear your food is extremely expensive there.
Here, a box of 100 Contour's goes for $109.00 at Target. It's disgusting how little our government cares about us.![]()
Ha! You funny Aussie you! This is America, our government uses our petitions to wipe their you-know-whatties!OUICH!!!! Lancets aren't subsidised here as yet around $15 to $20 for box of drums (6) Do what we did partition government to subsidise them along with syringes pens and needles and consumables for pumps!!!! We have to get from either chemist or diabetes Australia, as not available in department stores here. Yes sadly our foods is expensive but we grow our own basic vegies and fruit and the flood water didn't get high enough to wipe out the vegie patch![]()
Thanks so much for the tip! I just saved $50 a hundred on my True Results strips.There's also Ebay. I've seen boxes of 100 with a great expiration date (about a year) and the winning bid was 20 bucks.![]()