Social Security ... what material is paid and what does not?

Hello!I read his comments and surprise me.I am from Argentina and I am lucky to have a social work, which covers me 100% of what I use: insulin, lancets, needles, reactive strips.Although this year they have put a clause to limit the amounts that are delivered per year, such as a type 1: 400 annual strips (which is not enough) and here I have to leave a room of my salary to buy two boxesA month so I will see what type of letter I can present to my prepaid.

Greetings!

@"Mireiab" if you do not feel like arguing with your nurse that is what I would do because I know the glucometers have to come with a laboratory prick that supplies it and they give them the glucometers they need and that they are of aGlucometer "used" and "without a puncture" is like sending the nurse (with forgiveness) to take in the ass.What does not want to argue, call the laboratory that supplies the glucometer and ask for a new one because it is normal for you to give it to you since they do it with the reactive strips.

@'Mireiab' with the delegation of competencies to autonomies This is chaos.
I don't know what to tell you.To me in Madrid they gave me a complete glucometer (with an extra prick) for the office.I was spoiled by the free glycometer (I don't read my strips) and they gave me one in nursing of another patient.
Regardless of what each autonomy says, as your center does not want to give it to you, they don't care.There is no way to get it.

Cruz Suárez said:
I like to participate in this forum and I do it because it surprised what some participants say.I am diabetic by birth and never, I repeat, I have never paid for glucose control devices, or by the lancetas, or by the strips, only I pay what corresponds to me for insulin and which is little.Everything gives me free in the Social Security outpatient.I would like you not to have a little respect and tell the truth.Thank you very much.

That is not as you say, in all the cities of Spain it is not the same.Do not comment on the years you have diabetes only from birth (nobody knows your age), I have diabetes almost 34 years old and at first if I pay for several glucometers and the first cost my father 29,900 ptas, think what that was in money,That is, they have not always been given.
Here in Cartagena, the lancetas do not give them, or you pay them or forget and having made a written claim and having been answered by saying that they are not given.
Please do not say that you say people lie, in each site it is a world, you cannot accuse people saying that they lie.Ah !!!By the way, for the strips before when they were taken from pharmacy we also paid, 75 ptas but we paid them that is how free nothing.
The control devices such as the flames, that is, glucometers, are given the laboratories to the health centers, before if you wanted any especially and did not give the health center, or you fought with the laboratory or paid it.
Greetings and please be careful with terminology because people feel offended and if I put it on you, it's because someone has told me.
By the way I believe that those who had to have respect would be many health centers with us that are thought to spend strips to spend them, then we will be those who will have problems with many organs of our body because they have not facilitated the necessary strips, and this happensIn many places.
All the best

Thank you very much, the truth that causes a lot of helplessness.

Yesterday I returned to the emergency ambulatory and it seems that the nurse on duty will try to get a puncture "how please", according to him.It seems a lie that we have to beg for this kind of thing.

You are right and I will try to fight it in the ambulatory, at least until I tired :)

Well, I live in Cantabria and they give me the cannulas (Minimed 640) in the hospital and well, do not scratch you haha.In the ambulatory the strips (that the nurse controls them in an exaggerated way and that I have a report with option to enough strips but well ...) and the lancetas.
I have left the sensor Enlit because I gave me many problems for the price I paid per month and I am waiting for me to tell me where to shoot but my nurse in the hospital is Maja and endure the plates you release without problems.
It is a little shame that we do not have the same rights in all communities but it is the eternal incomprehensible debate ...

isaserana said:
Well I live in Cantabria and give me the cannulas (minimed 640) in the hospital and well, do not racanean haha.In the ambulatory the strips (that the nurse controls them in an exaggerated way and that I have a report with option to enough strips but well ...) and the lancetas.
I have left the sensor Enlit because I gave me many problems for the price I paid per month and I am waiting for me to tell me where to shoot but my nurse in the hospital is Maja and endure the plates you release without problems.
It is a little shame that we do not have the same rights in all communities but it is the eternal incomprehensible debate ...

It happened to me.Annual and Analytical Ophthalmologist control every 6 months

I only have problems in primary care, with glucometer, lancetas, needles and others.

I have nothing bad to say about hospital attention (endocrine).Reviews every 3 months, analytics every 6, ophthalmologist, nutritional education and diabetological, etc.

Mireiab said:
I only have problems in primary care, with glucometer, lancetas, needles and others.

I have nothing bad to say about hospital attention (endocrine).Reviews every 3 months, analytics every 6, ophthalmologist, nutritional education and diabetological, etc.

Come on, they will scratch the important thing to wear good control but then you get visits to unnecessarily frequent doctors.Like the majority.

isaserana said:
Well I live in Cantabria and give me the cannulas (minimed 640) in the hospital and well, do not racanean haha.In the ambulatory the strips (that the nurse controls them in an exaggerated way and that I have a report with option to enough strips but well ...) and the lancetas.
I have left the sensor Enlit because I gave me many problems for the price I paid per month and I am waiting for me to tell me where to shoot but my nurse in the hospital is Maja and endure the plates you release without problems.
It is a little shame that we do not have the same rights in all communities but it is the eternal incomprehensible debate ...

Not being from CCAA itself all Spaniards are not the same before the law is always violated, this is the party that is, art.14 of the Spanish Constitution does not really exist.

I pay insulin, lancetas, puncturers, glucometers ....... less amount than if they were not for the SS but you pay- only the reactive strips are free and these reactive strips only 50 per month (the endocrine had to make a paperSo that in my health center, in the town, they would give me fair for a month).Basin

PS: Ah, and trying to be freestyle, since if I want to glucometer from another brand they do not supply you because they do not have.They say so.

Hello everyone.I am from Cádiz.
Here the glucometer of other brands and the lancetas are given in the ambulatory without problems at cost or logically.
In my case, being a pensioner with 44 years for disability, both needles and reactive strips and insulins (basal and rapid) are at cost 0 too.I only have to try the glucagon that so far I have not asked for it since they gave me guidelines that at the minimum symptom of hypoglycemia it is treated with water with two teaspoons of diluted sugar. And a last thing.I also take two different pills along with insulin and me the reactive strips is passed by social security without problems.I comment because something I read before that if I took pills they didn't give the strips.What is true is that they limit use to a strip a day

@Ana Reyes, do you have diabetes 2?
I understand that diabetics 2 when they still have pancreatic reserve should not use glucagon, since it stimulates insulin secretion.

solar said:
@ana kings, do you have diabetes 2?
I understand that diabetics 2 when they still have pancreatic reserve should not use glucagon, since it stimulates insulin secretion.

If mine is the II.Many people have told me about having one in case I am unconscious or something some night, but as I said before me they told me that at the slightest indication I took water with sugar.Even so, I have the doubt if the glucagon would also have a social security

In Castilla y León in the health center they give you the needles and the strips to the insulin -dependent, but with droppers and you have to walk sometimes because they do not arrive (I know for a relative).Insulin with recipe, the same as glucagon, pay little, and you have to buy them.
To me, since it is not insulin -dependent for the moment (and with the endo that has touched me I do not even know the type of diabetes, a friend of internal medicine has taken my hands today because he has not asked me for a single test withThe rigor analysis with diabetic profile and Péctido C ... for October, with what has put me for a consultation with him to carry out studies) I do not give me almost even the ... both the meter and the strips cost themI, because I also have a tendency to hypos ...

Good here in Caceres my 11 -year -old daughter receives to ask for everything.Lancetas, needles and strips.They do not carry control because if I need whatever they want.Nurses both the reference and that of their pediatrician are a love.And the same in the day hospital some loves, for the glucometers and puncturers that also give them to me without problem.Even spare in case something happens.Proud from my Extremadura, for what I see in other places, we spone for good.

It gives me that it depends, not only on the autonomous community, but also on the doctor or nurse that touches you.Because in Andalusia I have put five strips a day, for many years.Yes it is true that I never get all out of the pharmacy because for 3 years I have paid the free almost not use, so I do not buy them all when they come out in the electronic recipe.
Bolis needles for a year have put them in recipe but you don't have to pay anything for them in the pharmacy.In the health center, the nurse put me two needles a day although I told him that he punctured me a minimum of 4 times.When I went to the hospital to the quarterly review, the doctor asked me if I changed them in each puncture and I told him not because they didn't give me so many.He said that was indisputable, and I use five needles a day, so every day I take a box in the pharmacy.
The lancetas do have to pay them enteritas because in Andalusia the SAS does not cover them.I have never understood or understand that communities can do whatever they want and that there is discrimination that exists from each other ...

On Friday I went to collect my material to the Health Center (Madrid Capital) and they told me that Abbot has lost the contest to the detriment of Roche, which changed the glucometer, I mean the sensor ... I will no longer be able to calibrate/check with their ownstrips, so I will keep them as gold and cloth and use contour Next (which I like more and say it is more accurate) to calibrate.
I explained the situation and exceptionally they facilitated 100 strips, because those who have left are in that format and are for the normal use of the center.
They have 3 patients, minors, with the funded sensor and have referred their specialist for the supply of reactive ays.
Wordless....

I have insurance of Adeslas and I have never had any problems, they give me everything I ask in IMQ of Bilbao, but it is true that the staff who serves you to give you the material, sometimes they put on you stick, which are many strips, etc., is the personnel who are in charge of giving you, but not my insurance, who have always treated me very well for many years.When this happens you have to put a complaint, and these employees who attend badly, soon change them.

JORL ​​... I have everything from Abbott and in Madrid they always give me free everything: lacetas, strips and needles dB, the last 5mm that for me that are not worth for being so short
Now Roche? ... I can't believe it !!!!!
I have to collect material in 1 week, give me everyone I ask, always less strips of the 6 daily that I have free and I get less capillaries.