I want sweets right now!

While checking out the price of diabetic tests striips, I looked at 1 pharmacy in Canada. They were charging $1.09 per strip.

Humph, no bargain at that Canadian on-line pharmacy. I will check some more of the pharmacies and give my results.

Any diabetic out there know of a way to buy test strips for less than $1.00 each? I am 63 and soon may not be covered by any insurance plan.

By the way:

Bell pepper cut into four peices – insides seeds removed. No cut up an avocado into four pieces and lay them inside the cut up bell pepper. Nice evening snack. If you use green bell pepper, I think there is minimal sugar. Red bell peppers seem to be sweeter, so I would think they have more sugar.

Luck to everybody.

If I buy a testing machine from my neighborhood pharmacy, it includes some free strips. No prescription required!

Strips cost about $1 each. Based on my experience as a manager of a retail store selling computers, I would estimate that the pharmacy is making $0.30 to $0.50 for each strip they sell.

If you could buy strips from ebay, I bet they would be $1.00 each.

Hum, just had a thought…. Maybe I can buy them mail order from a Canadian Pharmacy.

Great blog. I will add it to my bookmarks.

First of all, Awesome blog.
Great post.
Isn’t amazing what the human mind is capable of doing?
One thing.
Every day of my diabetic life, I am glad that there are pharmaceutical companies out there rolling in dough. Thanks to them and their profit motive I am still alive. Sometimes we ignore the fact that big pharma only makes profits by saving and improving our lives. I hope big pharma gets even bigger and makes even more money. I wouldn’t like for any medicine lab to be working on the next glucose monitor in some dinky, wet and dirty basement somewhere in a third world country due to a lack of funds, would you? We need to remind ourselves that pharmaceutical companies are in the business of making medicines to treat diseases, they are not in the business of finding cures. I am so thankful they exist and that they are successful.

- 60 years ago virtually any bacterial disease or infection could have killed you, then they discovered antibiotics (incl. typhus, cholera, syphilis, leprocy, meningitis, encephalitis …..) as well vaccines
- 50 years ago you would probably have died from minor heart disease (including kids born with congenital heart defects, so called blue babies), then in the 50s and 60s they discovered heart-lung machines and how to operate on living hearts
- All types of major surgery and specially organ transplants were virtually impossible 40-50 years ago, today some are even routine and there are people alive today using artificial hearts
- 20 years ago you probably would have gone blind from glaucoma, today while it cannot be cured progress can be arrested and blindness avoided with over 90% success rate
- 85 years ago you would have died very quickly from Type-1 diabetes, today in Europe life expectancy for people with diabetes diagnised before age 15 is around 10 years less than average (ie around 55 years with diabetes). For people who got T1-D in the 40s and 50s, life expectancy was 20-25 years. Latest statistics that I saw in Germany, amputations from diabetes are down almost 50% in the last 20 years, as well as diabetes related blindness.
- Life expectancy for people with many types of cancer has increased significantly over the past 10-15 years as has life expectancy for people with HIV-Aids (which today is almost “only” a chronic disease – 10-15 years ago it was a death sentence)

So its slow going and frustrating, but hang in there !!!

Anybody catch the article about a gastric surgery reducing Type 2?
(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305113659.htm

Basically, if they perform a bypass around the upper small intestine Type 2 diabetes goes into remission. I know the two diseases are totally different, but when considered next to the K-cell therapy, it sounds like the GI tract may play a bigger role in glucose regulation than anyone realized — these guys may be on to something.