{"id":156,"date":"2017-11-19T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/victoza\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T08:32:09","slug":"victoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/victoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pros and Cons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#39;s expensive.&#0160; Without insurance, $900 a month.&#0160; That means I&#39;ll meet my deductible in two and half months if nothing else goes on, and then I&#39;ll be paying $180 out of pocket.&#0160; That also means I&#39;ll probably meet my max out of pocket.&#0160; On the other hand, pump supplies and insulin are a lot more expensive.<\/li>\n<li>I still have around 11 boxes of infusion sets and a bunch of insulin.&#0160; But right now, I&#39;m using half of my old basal, doing some small corrections. &#0160;<\/li>\n<li>I&#39;m losing weight.&#0160; The doctors office saw 3 pounds in two weeks. &#0160;<\/li>\n<li>CVS\/Caremark are being jerks about it.&#0160; Now this COULD be my doctor&#39;s office but they want pre-authorization and that hasn&#39;t happened yet.&#0160; I was given two sample pens and right now, I have 8 days left.&#0160; I&#39;m going to try to get another sample box tomorrow AND have already started pushing the pre-authorization.&#0160; I&#39;m willing to be since the plan is changing on January 1, CVS\/Caremark is dragging their feet.&#0160; I hate feeling like a drug addict.<\/li>\n<li>My blood sugar is super smooth with the current pump settings.&#0160; I&#39;m waking up with 120-130 blood sugar (yes, I would like it lower), and I&#39;m not having to count carbs.&#0160; I haven&#39;t seen a blood sugar higher than 180 since we decided on these pump settings.&#0160;<\/li>\n<li>I&#39;m using 19 units of insulin now and was using 65 units of insulin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pros and Cons It&#39;s expensive.&#0160; Without insurance, $900 a month.&#0160; That means I&#39;ll meet my deductible in two and half months if nothing else goes on, and then I&#39;ll be paying $180 out of pocket.&#0160; That also means I&#39;ll probably meet my max out of pocket.&#0160; On the other hand, pump supplies and insulin are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}