Thanks for the help! Hopefully it should be all squared away now.
Haha the dumb a$$es at cvs Caremark sent me NINE one-month boxes for a three month supply! That’s easily enough to last me a year— ironically they expire in September though— so I guess I’ll get to see how well it works past its expiration date… Have no idea how they crunched the numbers wrong on this one but I’ll take it.
Had to clean out the extra fridge to make room.
Congrats on winning the dialottery, Sam! You deserve it! 
Hope you put your Afrezza stockpile in the butter compartment of your extra fridge, because everyone knows that immediate denaturation occurs if you put your insulin anywhere but the butter compartment. 
Well each box is about the size of a bowling pin so I don’t think that’s gonna work
Simple: just buy more refrigerators!
Guess I got lucky at our regional grocery store pharmacy. Afrezza comes in one day after ordering. My teenage son’s pump won’t stay attached during sweaty summer months, so UHC approved the switch to Afrezza. We love the ease and control that Afrezza provides, and are having very steady BS on long-acting Tresiba also. Afrezza is very, very expensive (3-4x) compared to Humalog, as my teen is active and eats tons of carbs.
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usually low volume drugs are on a order basis with 1 day turn around.
did you try using Afrezza savings card? may be that will get the cost down. May be now that Afrezza is being marketed by Mannkind, its manufacturer,the price should be coming down?
https://www.activatethecard.com/7055/
also avaliable for tresiba
Tresiba® Savings Card | Tresiba® (insulin degludec) injection 100 Units/mL, 200 Units/mL
Most pump users are switching to SDI - single daily injection with Afrezza and Tresiba and with greatest control too
soon pumps may not be a great tool for many both cost and control wise
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http://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/what-its-really-using-new-basal-insulin-toujeo#4
Shawn Nowatzki, high-voltage Niagara transformer power tester in New York
Diagnosed with T1D more than two decades ago at age 3, Shawn tells us he was on an insulin pump for 16 years, but in mid-August he disconnected his pump and started taking Toujeo for his Shawndaily basal. He’s also been on inhaled insulin Afrezza for four months, and says this combination is working well for him.
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Insulin pump eight thousand dollars plus; reservoirs, sets plus insulin far, far, far more costly than Tresiba and Afrezza. Yet insurance companies pay for pump and supplies without making us jump through hoops. They need to get Tier II classification and then insurance should cover Afrezza. Yes, you will use more Afrezza, mostly a lot of the 4 units because Tresiba, although the best injectable basal, still cannot give varying basal rates (we had four basal rates on the pump) so from 6pm until 1am we need those 4 unit Afrezzas to correct highs due to Tresibas flat basal coverage. But so easy. It’s SO worth it. Afrezza is not anywhere near as expensive as a pump and all the accompanying paraphernalia.
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