Op-Ed: Like many diabetics, I’ve had to ration my insulin. It doesn’t have to be this way (via latimesopinion)
“Are you pregnant or hung over?” a colleague once asked as I exited the bathroom stall at work. After going three days without long-acting insulin to treat my Type 1 diabetes, I had been throwing up in the middle of my shift. But I had to get back to work, so I could earn enough tips to buy more. “No, this just happens sometimes,” I answered, downplaying how sick I really was.
It was 2018, I was uninsured — and rationing my insulin because I couldn’t afford it. Being nauseated was a sign of, a painful and serious condition that can lead to a diabetic coma or even death. As a host at a restaurant in Seattle, I was earning too much to qualify for Washington state’s Medicaid program but not nearly enough to buy private insurance. Without it, the medication I need to survive costs roughly $300 a vial, and I am prescribed two every month.
Like me, at least 1 in 4 insulin-dependent diabetics in the U.S. have rationed insulin because of its cost. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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