lantis cost and solostar question

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After a week on the novolin and seeing Mr. Pink's ups and downs, I now understand the need for a better insulin. The vet is willing to prescribe the lantus, and at the advise at others having been calling pharmacies to ask about their acceptance of the lantus savings card and their ability to dispense one pen at a time. While all have said they will accept the lantus savings card, and are fine with it being for a cat, all said very clearly they would not be able to dispense one at a time- even if written that way. So now I have a question for those that have more experience buying lantus.
If I get the box of 5 pens, depending on the dose we end up at, the box could last 7-10 months. Will the medicine be effective for that long in the fridge? If not, am I better off just getting the vial?
Thoughts?
 
The pens usually have a long expiry on them (over a year) and will last to that expiry when unopened in the fridge. Then an opened pen is 6 months in the fridge. Plus they are plastic and durable and it means you have a back up if something happens. I have dropped a vial before now ...
 
And, if you're interested in doing it, you might find a decent mail order pharmacy in Canada to source it.
 
Wherever you decide to get it from - ask them to sell you the box with the longest expiry date. Just like with food products, they rotate the soon to expiration in the front and put the long expiry in the back.

That is what I did when I bought it and mine had over 1 year expiration date.

Oh and check with hospital pharmacies, I've read on here that they will sometimes dispense one pen at a time. At a minimum I would get two pens, this way if something happens to the first pen, you have a backup in the fridge.
 
Only the outer housing of the pen is plastic. The part of the pen that contains the insulin is glass. It looks like a miniature vial only instead of having a glass bottom, the bottom is open and has a rubber stopper like syringe.


Wendy&Tiggy said:
The pens usually have a long expiry on them (over a year) and will last to that expiry when unopened in the fridge. Then an opened pen is 6 months in the fridge. Plus they are plastic and durable and it means you have a back up if something happens. I have dropped a vial before now ...
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BJM said:
And, if you're interested in doing it, you might find a decent mail order pharmacy in Canada to source it.
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I don't think you can buy insulin from Canada any more if you live in the US. I know that when I was planning to order more fore Ricky earlier this year I was told by the pharmacy I previously bought from that it was now illegal for them to ship to the US
 
Some people have said their local Target store will sell the individual pens. Some Wal-marts will sell the individual pens, but it's up to the individual store.
 
We're in California and the only places which would sell us one pen were Target or Albertsons/Savon pharmacy.
 
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