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Where can my mother get free diabetic testing supplies?
Question : Where can my mother get free diabetic testing supplies?
She is 50 and just found out she has diabeties. She does not have medical insurance where she works and is not on medicare or medicaid. I have done a little research about this online and everything I found, you had to have insurance or be on medicare. She has neither, and the test strips she needs cost $ 50 a pack. With the medications she is already paying for, it could create a hardship. Thanks for any advice you might have.
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Best answer:
Answer by desperate
she can go to her county hospital and see a doctor and then they will start sending her medication in the mail free of charge.
Go to Target and get an Easy Pro Meter, the meter costs $ 8.99 and the strips are $ 21.99 for fifty. The pharm. companies give away their meters to trap you into paying for their overpriced supplies. There are cheaper ones out there at Target and Wal-mart, they work just as well. The cheaper ones won’t come with all the bells and whistles like the One Touch with all the ways to download graphs on your computer, but what you need is an affordable way to test your blood sugar. It’s essential that this gets tracked, don’t say it can’t be afforded. I personally think I would rather have a lifetime of medical bills than be dead. I’m not trying to be judgmental like that sounds, just realistic.