I was wondering if anyone knows if you can get canine insulin off the internet with prescription any cheaper than what you would pay at the vet. My doberman has just been diagnosed with diabetis and hopefully the insurance will pay for about a year or £2000 whatever runs out first and i am on income support and may not be able to afford the insulin injections if i cannot get it any cheaper elsewhere.Current dosage is costing £60 a month what with insurance for 2 dogs things are getting extremely tight.
Thanks for your help

If you're on Income support you should be able to get help from the PDSA. I would be very wary about buying from the internet, sometimes all is not as it seems, unless you can get it from someone like Hyperdrug? Maybe it would be cheaper if you get them to fill the prescription for you? I have always found Hyperdrug to be very efficient in answering E-mail queries, processing orders(usually posted that afternoon or next day latest) and give good advice. All the best, Dawn

http://www.hyperdrug.co.uk/

you will be able to get treatment at pdsa all you need to take is your proof of housing benifit ...any1 that gets any kind of housing benifit can go to them :)...

good luck my mums dog as diabetis and gets treatment at the pdsa xx

>any1 that gets any kind of housing benifit can go to them ...

As long as they cover your area ... they're not completely national.

I live in Margate in kent and as far as i know there is no PDSA near where i live. I will look into it though. thanks

You can use their practice finder facility to find out if your area is covered.

even if theres no pdsa where u live you can find the closest and use that 1 x

> even if theres no pdsa where u live you can find the closest and use that 1 x

not neccessarily, they have a postcode area which they cover, you cannot simply go to anyone in the country im afraid/

o right i didnt know that sorry .....only going on when my mum lived in chesterfeild ..no pdsa there and she was aloud to use a different 1 that was in a nother area .

i used to work in the east glasgow one when i was a student nurse, and they had a list of postcodes on a poster on the wall of all the postcodes that they covered. otherwise, they wouldnt see them. it was quite a large area, half of glasgow, and surrounding areas

They sometimes have pet aid practices.. Ie privavte practices who will treat pdsa clients if not pet aid hospital is available. You woulds need to pre register first
hth
Donna x
(and my boysxx)