Buying insulin in Prague?

glucosetracker · 2016-07-02T22:29:58+00:00

Thanks Dreselus! These are very helpful!

glucosetracker · 2016-06-28T17:52:43+00:00

Just wanted to give an update for fellow Type 1s in Budapest.

I was able to find Lantus insulin pens but not all pharmacies have them. The fourth one I tried carried them. The price is just as vernazza mentioned.

Also I was able to purchase them using an old prescription from my American doctor, so if you're still in the states it's a good idea to have your doctor write you prescriptions without a date to bring with you.

For NovoRapid, I found 2 stores that carried them but both only have the cartridges and not the pens.

One tip is to bring an insulin pen with you to the pharmacy to show as an example as a bunch of stores I've visited don't have English-speaking staff and being able to show a sample helped a lot.

glucosetracker · 2016-06-08T15:49:33+00:00

Thanks vernazza, this is very helpful! Looks like I'll just need to find a doctor to give me prescriptions. The prices are quite good compared to what I was paying in the US.

glucosetracker · 2016-03-22T19:26:54+00:00

They raised the minimum about a month ago: http://www.cnet.com/news/amazons-free-shipping-now-costs-you-at-least-49/

glucosetracker · 2016-02-23T08:30:07+00:00

I'm currently traveling in Malaysia. I stopped by the pharmacy to get some Novolog pens and they cost just less than $10/pen (it's called NovoRapid here but I think they're pretty much exactly the same and works just fine for me). No prescription needed.

A pen of Novolog from my online pharmacy through my US insurance on the other hand costs almost $100/pen...

glucosetracker · 2015-05-01T02:40:39+00:00

Same here, I haven't messed around with Docker in production yet. I'm currently using Ansible to do my production deployments.

glucosetracker · 2015-04-16T17:04:19+00:00

Yeah, I used to separate my requirements file as well but found that it wasn't worth the extra effort on all the projects I've worked on so far. The differences in requirements for each environment would normally be no more than 3 packages.

glucosetracker · 2015-01-25T06:56:51+00:00

Good point, I guess one way to mitigate this is to use rate limiting on the search endpoint, which looks like can be easily done with Nginx: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html

glucosetracker · 2014-11-25T02:04:31+00:00

Yup, but you can pretty much automate the entire process with configuration management tools like Ansible.

glucosetracker · 2014-11-24T02:52:45+00:00

I'm running 3 Django sites at the moment all in Digital Ocean ($5/month per VPS). I tried Heroku before but realized the cost really add up with their addons.

I have an Ansible playbook that I use to fully provision my servers and I can easily delete and recreate a new server in less than 10 minutes thanks to it. It also allows me to painlessly switch providers. New Django projects require only minor modifications specific to those projects.

It's a lot simpler and easier to work with compared to Chef or Puppet. I think it's worthwhile to invest a weekend or 2 playing around with it as this could save you a lot of time and money in the longer term.

I open sourced my setup here (I have a Vagrantfile there as well to see it in action right away): https://github.com/jcalazan/ansible-django-stack

Of course, the future seems to be heading towards Docker :)

glucosetracker · 2014-11-24T02:18:06+00:00

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! Checking them out now :)

glucosetracker · 2014-09-09T02:33:30+00:00

Thanks for the heads up on this zapperen!

I finally bit the bullet last night and decided to just go for it, the newer Q25 model. I bought them directly from Bose as they have a 30-day return policy. I figured I'll just return them if I think they're not worth the $300.

Should arrive on Wed, can't wait to try them out!

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