Although sharing prescription medicines is illegal, some with diabetes are turning to underground sharing networks when they cannot afford their insulin.
D.J. Mattern had her Type 1 diabetes under control until Covid-19's economic upheaval cost her husband his hotel maintenance job and their health coverage. The 42-year-old Denver woman suddenly faced insulin's exorbitant list price — anywhere from $125 to $450 per vial — just as their household income shrank.
She scrounged extra insulin from friends, and her doctor gave her a couple of samples. But as she rationed her supplies, her blood sugar rose so high her glucose monitor couldn't even register a number. In June, she was hospitalized."My blood was too acidic. My system was shutting down. My digestive tract was paralyzed," Mattern said, after three weeks in the hospital."I was almost near death."D.j.
"The last I heard, one is in end-stage renal failure and the other has already had a partial limb amputation," Marston said."The effects of this, what we see, you can't turn your back on it."The underground sharing is how Mattern secured her insulin before recently qualifying for Medicaid. When someone on a neighborhood Facebook group asked if anybody needed anything in the midst of the pandemic, she replied with one word: insulin.
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