Best prices for Lantus

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NancyJac

NancyJac

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One more issue to compound the stress and me and my cat.

I placed an order for Lantus a week ago and I am just finding today that they are out of stock. So now I have to have the script transferred someplace else. The next cheapest supplier I have been able to find is $25 more than the place that was out of stock. Looks like I will have to pay $185 for a vial. Does anybody know of less expensive sources. And this 3rd party companies that do these RX Savings cards.....can they b used for prescription pet meds?\


Nancy
 
The cheapest route to go is to get your vet to write the prescription for the pen instead of the vial. You use it the same as a vial (with a syringe and not the pen needles) and since it's only 3ml per pen (vs. 10 ml for a vial), you use up the whole pen before it starts to lose potency. With the vial, I was able to get about halfway through it (around 5 months) before it started losing potency. All of my pens so far have been good to the last drop.

The manufacture also offers a coupon for the pen where you only have to pay $25 per pen when you sign up for the Lantus Savings Card.
 
Every place I checked, the equivalent amount of pens was more expensive than the vial. How do you know when it has lost potency?
 
That's usually because they sell the pens in a box of 5 (15ml worth for around $125-175 depending on discounts and taxes). Some places will sell you the pen individually (my local Walmart does this for me), but even if you have to buy an entire box of pens, each unused pen is good till the expiration date (which is usually a couple of years off). Once you "open" them (by piercing with a syringe) the clock starts ticking down. With the pens, you'll most likely use up the whole pen before the "time" runs out. Just make sure you keep them refrigerated and this will extend the shelf-life by a couple of months past "expiration," if not more.

You can usually tell when it's lost potency by higher BG numbers not being caused due to a needed dose increase. That might sound bizarre to you right now, but after you've been at it a few months, you'll be able to tell when this happens.
 
The places I checked sold the pens in 3pks (9ml total) and the price was over $200. The 10 ml vial was $161 at the first place I tried. They are out of stock so now I have pay $185 at Sam's Club, unless they will take the NPSN RX Savings Card.

Nancy
 
Make sure you sign up for the Lantus Savings Card. It only works for the pens, but the deal works out to $25 per pen, regardless of original price.
 
OK, I may do that for my next order. I've lost a week already trying to get this script filled so I don't want to have to start all over again.
 
That's what I ended up doing the first time around and just got the vial because it was easier than having to wait until I could get a new script and find a place that would sell the pens individually. :lol: I got about 5 months out of my vial before it "died" on me and had a prescription for the pens already written up by that point so it was a fairly seamless transition from the vial to the pen.
 
Can I go ahead and get the savings card from Lantus or do they have a short expiration or I need to have the script first?
 
You can get it at any time but you won't be able to "apply" it to anything until you have a script for the pens (since it doesn't work for the vial).
 
Dumb question: To sign up for the Lantus savings card, do I use my information or my cats? Serious question, tho kinda humorous :)
 
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