Please help me afford life-saving insulin and other meds!
hi everyone I know I haven’t been on here in a while, i’m so sorry if anyone was worried. I hate to have to ask for help again but it’s a serious health issue and I don’t know what else to do. I have type 1 diabetes that I’m prescribed human analog insulin in pen form for; there’s about 14 pens every month (one main dose of long-acting a day plus one dose of fast-acting per meal) and several medications. All these meds are extremely expensive and my parents told me the terrible insurance they receive thru work that barely covered them in part before wont cover them at all anymore. we’ve tried a patient assistance program but the application hasn’t been responded to yet and this state probably has a massive backlog of them. without actually saying they won’t, my parents are basically refusing to pay for them ‘right now’ because there are “more serious expenses that have to come first” since they affect the whole household and not just me even though I literally NEED these meds to survive and keep functioning well.
this is partly because I had to cry and beg my parents to let me start getting treatment in the first place. they still don’t like the fact that I’m even taking meds and think I don’t truly need them even though the improvement in me compared to before is so clear. they’re a little more understanding about my diabetes/insulin needs since they know it’s out of my control (I’m lucky I don’t have type 2 tbh) but they’ve still decided that it has to take a backseat. I can’t afford to wait until they feel like everything else that’s ‘more important’ than my wellbeing is taken care of, I’m really worried about the damage my MH could take if I’m off my medication for too long and missing insulin doses on top of that will just make it worse and actually puts my life in danger.
Trying to stagger my eating so I’m having less meals every day helps stretch my mealtime doses out a little longer. right now I only have enough doses left to last about 1 1/2 more weeks so if I can’t raise enough money to at least afford the insulin, I’ll probs have to start rationing them — and if I have to do that for too long it’s very likely to end up killing me. if anyone can spare anything AT ALL to help cover the cost of all my medications, any amount wld truly be so helpful and mean so much! even if you can’t support by d/nating, just reblogging this post to b00st it helps alot! please please share!
Edit: forgot to add my vėnmo (& pp)!
c*sh.app/$oblongsun
v*nmo.com/oblongsun
p*yp*l.me/gem7d
0/1749
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UPDATE: I really hoped I wouldn’t have to but I’m starting to ration my remaining doses and stagger my daily insulin intake. all I can think about is how unsafe it is n praying that rationing doesn’t kī|| me, the stress is f**king wrecking my MH. I’m scared to eat too much I’d rather just skip as many meal doses as I can. I’m literally so afraid of dÿíńg it’s actually giving me nightmares.
I’m begging everyone to PLEASE keep sharing this and please d/nate if you can— I have less than ONE WEEK of insulin left and the goal is still less than halfway filled!
532/1749
994.14/1749! 💗 thanks y’all, please keep sharing!
1228.72/1749! 💗
UPDATE: so I've been mia here because tumblr randomly terminated my blog which took forever emailing back and forth with them to get back (which I didn't even realize I could do at first until I googled and read about how tumblr's been randomly deleting people's blogs left and right this year) then I was locked out for almost month so I had no access to it. in the meantime I was able to use some of the funds to buy a month worth of my insulin pens but then p*yp*l started holding my funds hostage and for some reason isn’t allowing me to withdraw them currently, so I couldn’t use any of the money there (almost 1,200) to purchase more. I had to start rationing it again and now I’m down to about 2 1/2 weeks of doses. I’ve lost almost 4 lbs from cutting down on eating to stretch my doses as long as possible. the slight break I had when I was taking regular doses for a little while was good but my body is already so exhausted again. PLEASE keep reblogging this and please consider donating if you can. thank you so much to everyone who's helped by reblogging/d0nating already 💗
c*sh.app/$oblongsun
v*nmo.com/oblongsun
