Re: Can you no longer buy needles without a script?- Shame

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UU,

It's unfortunate that you had such a bad experience. I wonder if you

would have preferred shots had your doc prescribed/mentioned using

smaller needles, shown you different locations for injection, & if the

pharmacy hadn't made it such as hassle.

One close friend of mine is an insulin dependent diabetic, & he gets

needles all the time for his insulin injections. He usually purchases

them in person but sometimes does so online- the same way " illicit

users " purchase their stuff. The appearance of " secrecy " & the same

method as illicit users doesn't matter- surviving with diabetes is

costly. It is not a disease that a person can afford to be ashamed

about.

Hypogonadism is not " fatal " but is severely life-dampening.

Increasing your quality of life is nothing to be ashamed about.

Androgel has its pros/cons but is still more expensive than shots. I

see no reason to allow the shame of getting needles (in whatever

manner is affordable) to limit oneself to a method of TRT that may not

work as well.

It is the shame of impotence & hypogonadism that often keeps us from

getting treatment, so why let shame return to threaten us with its

toothless jaws?

~Xian

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> From: jahost1942 <jahostmchsi (DOT) com>

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> Subject: Can you no longer buy needles without a script?

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> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 7:22 PM

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> I was able to purchase needles from Vitality Medical without a script

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> about 1 1/2 years ago. Their site now says you need a prescription. Is

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> that true everywhere in the USA? " "

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