Where can I buy insulin without a prescription?!
Question: I'm diabetic with no health insurance. No doctor in my area will see me. I've gone untreated for a year now and am getting sicker and sicker. I've already been to the emergency room, where they just give me names of doctors to see. They won't write me a script. If I soon don't get insulin on a regular basis I will die. Public assistance has denied me saying I make too much money for medical. I can't afford a doctor visit and lab work needed before anyone writes me a script. Can anyone out there help me?
Answers: I'm diabetic with no health insurance. No doctor in my area will see me. I've gone untreated for a year now and am getting sicker and sicker. I've already been to the emergency room, where they just give me names of doctors to see. They won't write me a script. If I soon don't get insulin on a regular basis I will die. Public assistance has denied me saying I make too much money for medical. I can't afford a doctor visit and lab work needed before anyone writes me a script. Can anyone out there help me?
Though its no advisable to buy insulin with out a doctors supervision, Regular insulin is over the counter medication. You can go into any pharmacy and ask for it. I had to do this for sometime when I did not have insurance. Good luck.
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No can do in the US! It is a hormone, so you need a prescription first.
If you live in a larger community(or even smaller ones can help)..check with a local church or civic organization to see if you can qualify for assistance.....buying & prescribing your own insulin is a recipe for disaster!!!! Insulin is necessary...so some churches that help people with the cost of their meds will probably help.Have you talked to the social services people at the hospital?They SHOULD steer you in the right direction. It doesn't make sense they won't write you a script...it's not the writing of the script, it you being able to fill it.....and if they recommend a doctor....you should do all you can to see the doctor....this is your life, not a Parchesi game.....the first step to having a chronic disease is to take responsibility....do research....contact the ADA for help....this is not hopeless...believe me, I have been there!....Please be safe!
google insulin. there are still a couple on the market that don't require Rx.
go to the Aventis site and look for the assistance line. you might get some help through there.
Yes, labs are very expensive for out of pocket!! I have seen the costs on my insurance printout of the original cost and what my copay is.
you can buy insulin with out a prescription in the us/ the only reason you would need a prescription is if you would want an insurance company to pay for it- it is stored in the pharmacy - you would need to ask the pharmacist for it - but you do not need a prescription for it GO TALK TO YOUR LOCAL PHARMACIST
You can write to the maker of the insulin companies and tell them you do not have insurance / but you need a doctors signature and they can usually give it to you free
As far as seeing a doctor is there a local clinic/ a non profit hospital, a county hospital,( they cannot throw you out )a local college that has a teaching college that has a medical school that maybe can help you with teaching doctors,
If all else fails Write to the local newspapers and tell them the story about the system that would let a person who cannot afford their medicine Die because he cannot get help from the system to pay for them and he cannot afford them himself.. See how quick you then get help I have tried this it works