Diabetes Test Strips

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Greetings,

This post will be about diabetes but not about the disease itself. This post is to make people with this disease aware about the cost of some supplies relating to the monitoring of the blood sugar levels. Mainly the very costly test strips. As anyone with diabetes can tell you, most test strips are costly. If you do not have insurance that pays for these or any retirement health plan and the cost comes out of your own pocket this can be a problem for a lot of people.

A good portion of people that pay for test strips and even the monitors themselves get them locally at either a pharmacy such as Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid just to name a few or one of the Big Box stores such as Wal-Mart. Many older people are not aware that getting test strips thru online companies is much cheaper. In fact in alot of cases the price is half of what is purchased locally.

The best place I have found to get test strips and whom most people think has the cheapest prices on the planet for test strips is on Amazon.com.

A very good example of the difference in prices is I personally use a Accu-Chek monitoring system and Accu-Chek test strips. To purchase these strips for a box of 50 at Wal-Mart for example cost $38. I can purchase the same strip, model & brand on Amazon for $19 per 50.

I have looked at other brands and models of the meters and strips that they need and almost every single brand of strips for all different brands and monitors cost less than half on Amazon.

Now alot of diabetes customers tell me that they have a particular brand & model of meter and some of their test strips can range in price up to $75 to even $100 for a box of 50 or 100. I'm sure that if you look on Amazon you will find them much lower in price. Also as a personal opinion, I would suggest that if you have a monitoring model that uses this costly of a test strip that with the cost of present day monitors being so cheap and some companies almost giving them away for free, that if yours is and older brand & model that you might want to update your present monitor with a newer brand & model that uses a cheaper test strip.

I'm sure that alot of readers on here do not like online buying, or do not have access to the internet for whatever reason but I would strongly suggest that they have some family member, friend or anyone with access to online to check into this for them as this can save any diabetes patient a great deal of money.

I hope this information may be of interest to anyone that has to pay for these supplies out of their own pocket.