This is how I ended up paying out of pocket for my pump

The Health Care Blog

If you don’t care to go back to the archives, a short recap ….

My doctor and I decided that I should go on the pump because I was gaining weight on MDI and had what I felt was inadequate control with shots.

It was the right decision, but the idiot HMO said, NO, you have to throw all the diabetes meds in the world at her in combination before we’ll approve it.

I’d had my full of diabetes drugs after the first one, and besides, insulin really is better and the pump is the most efficient way to deliver it.

And by the way, I’ve been steadily losing weight again.