re: Can I buy emergency insulin from Walmart ?

The portal ain’t gonna cut it.
You need to speak to her nurse, on the phone.

Is there a walk-in clinic or an ER Now that could treat?

What’s your last A1C and when was it drawn?

NOTE: If you are really just following doctors orders (or trying to) and haven't really studied insulin and how you're endocrine system works, just go to Urgent Care/ER.

That being said, so long as you can do math, and so long as your U-100 script is for the same number of units as your U-500 script than the 11 day supply of Novolin should be fine to get you through a week. Units are units, but with U-100 the amount of liquid injected your body will be 5 times higher. You can space it out and use multiple injection sites if your dose is really high But, To do this, you need to understand how your doctor told you to take your U-500 shots, for instance, did the doctor do the math and give you a U-100 syringe and prescribe how much units to inject, but as measured on a U-100 syringe? Or did they just tell you how many units to take per gram carb and let you do the math yourself

This is especially true if you have a CGM (if you don't have a CGM and you're loading up on that much insulin than I would highly suggest getting one). If you have a CGM (e.g. Freestyle Libre or other), than you can trial and error your way to freedom with the U-100 pens.

If you're on a basal (i.e. daily Tresiba/Lantus) as well as your Humolin bolus, you can try fasting for a while, take a walk, and then eat very low carbs until the basal and whatever is left of your pancreas catches up and puts you back in control.

If you have Reddit: r/diabetes will be a much better group to be involved in compared to the OT for diabetes related discussion.

I'm a type 2 diabetic (and a non-obese one at that). I feel your pain, and this is a mental disease just as much as it is a physical one. Your post reads like you're trying to come off of a "break" from dealing with diabetes. We've all done it. No biggie, just hop back on the train and get back with it.

I'd really recommend learning as much as you can about how YOUR body reacts. Knowledge is power and it will increase your ability (and willingness) to manage this disease. You also have to keep in mind that your doctor is treating the patient as much as they are treating the disease, if you study/learn enough to ask your doctor better questions, your doctor will trust you with more than oversimplified instructions on how to manage this disease.

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prescription to get insulin?

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You need a prescription to get contacts. Here. Not in France, but here.

I've had Colombian girls who all of you would want to sleep with tell me they won't get ($5 a month) birth control because it costs $100 for the scrip. Risk is astounding, but they do their own calculus, and it's not worth $160 a year to avoid pregnancy, even from a broke arse Latino.)

I'm shocked. Insulin is precisely how most nurses with the prediciliction killed their own patients for decades, but ... I guess some people know better.

But, I'll totally have to have my ID scanned for effective Pseudoephedrine. That'll solve the meth OD crisis, fo sho.

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Because improper use of it will kill you, and it’s very easy to improperly use it.

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So everything that is dangerous when overdosed should be prescription only? How does having a prescription prevent you from accidentally taking too much or taking it at the wrong time? Is the doctor there with you all day every day?

Insulin many lives every year. How many people die from taking too much on accident?

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I will leave $5000 to chicken if you are told that I died.

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If you exhibit this type of “logic” with your PCP, I see why you are cut off.