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Your comment submission was successful. Please allow up to 2 business days for review, approval, and posting. Thank you for bringing attention to this historical quirk that is one of many bureaucratic realities that a patient with type 1 diabetes must face. My survey of patients over 20 years of practice, originally taking patients across the insurance spectrum, would suggest only a small percentage are utilizing this loophole.
What is near universal in my inquiries is the experience of having been told "you are early for your insulin" or having to pay cash whenever a vial fracture or out-of-town need arises. Patients need to understand that the OTC insulins work differently than the prescription products they are accustomed to. Knowing the signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, along with when to effectively use self-monitoring blood glucose, is essential. Also, educating patients on managing their diabetes under less-than-optimal circumstances can help reduce diabetes-related conditions and complications.
It is important to note that patients can also obtain OTC insulin syringes. The pharmacist can work with patients to help them in obtaining the correct OTC insulin, syringes and other needed supplies to manage their diabetes until optimal therapy can be acquired.
Health care providers must realize that for many patients, insulin is not the problem, but getting the insulin is. Healio News Endocrinology Diabetes. Issue: April Read next. April 21, Receive an email when new articles are posted on. Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on. You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts. We were unable to process your request.
Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice slackinc. Back to Healio. She bought her insulin without a prescription at Wal-Mart. Once the pharmacist says yes, the clerk just goes to get it, Smith says. To figure out the dose, she just used the same amount a doctor had given her years before. It was a way to survive, she says, but no way to live.
You feel lifeless. You feel pain. Smith keeps the tools for controlling her diabetes in this kit, which contains metformin, syringes, fast-acting insulin for daytime use and slow-release for overnight. The availability of insulin over the counter presents a real conundrum. On the other hand, being able to afford and easily buy some when she needed it may have saved her life.
There are two types of human insulin available over the counter: one made by Eli Lilly and the other by Novo Nordisk.
Jorge Calles, an endocrinologist at MetroHealth, is alarmed to think that some people are self-medicating with any sort of insulin. According to the medical consulting firm IMS Health , about 15 percent of people who buy insulin in the growing U. The U. Still, some people with diabetes, as well as some doctors, doubt that the benefits of that greater availability outweigh the risks, especially for patients who switch from one type of insulin to another without telling their doctor.
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