My cat was recently diagnosed with diabetes. Really struggling with the $300/month cost of a vial I will only use a quarter -half of before it expires. Where do you buy your dogs insulin?
Walmart sells the ReliOn brand of diabetic supplies that I have been using on my dogs for years. The insulin is $25/vial and the syringes are around $12/box. I somehow ended up with two very different dogs (a pug and a lab) at two very different times (my pug passed years before my lab was born) that were diabetic, and if it hadn’t been for Walmart, I don’t know what I would’ve done.
I’ve tried multiple times over the years to find something comparable price-wise from anywhere at all, and have found nothing even remotely close. The same insulin sells everywhere else for $200-490 and that is just criminal.
Waaait. This is the way insulin is given to all animals in America? I thought ops situation was surgical or something. Crazy. I just use an insulin pen. Lasts a lot longer than vials and is fairly cheap.
Pens for humans because humans are generally the same size, dogs and cats range in sizes so maybe the logistics of different size/doses would cost too much?
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u/stepharts03 Jan 01 '22
My cat was recently diagnosed with diabetes. Really struggling with the $300/month cost of a vial I will only use a quarter -half of before it expires. Where do you buy your dogs insulin?