When shiny new rocket-fuel insulin Fiasp hit the market, my insulin tart tendencies immediately sprung into action. I had a chat with my consultant (“I’d like that please, I think it might help with post-meal highs and it costs the same as the stuff I use now”), we grappled through the mysteries of the NHS… Read More »
After yet another diabetes related bed sheet incident I am now starting to think that diabetes and sheets are simply incompatible bedfellows. This time there was no visible problem, no massacre-like blood stains or mysterious slime. Oh no, this time it was the smell. Thankfully not the smell of my toes rotting off or my kidneys… Read More »
This dog was interested to read that the first ever insulin injection was given 90 years ago today on 11 January 1922. Made from extract of boiled cow and ultimately causing an allergic reaction in the human guinea pig, it was a good start, but it’s pleasing to see they’ve refined things a bit over the… Read More »
My hypo warning signs disappeared with the advent of ‘human’ insulin. My change from pork to human was accompanied by a spanking new insulin pump, one of the first, and the fact that it caused extremely severe hypos here, there and everywhere was lauded as wonderful news by my diabetes nurse – I was so… Read More »
The thing about injections and infusion sets is there are so many options and such a vast selection of flesh to put them in it’s hard to know where to start. I started young with the whole injection business and with that came a picture of a man/woman/android complete with grids on each injectable area.… Read More »
According to the BBC, everyone’s favourite pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is withdrawing its insulin products – including Levemir & NovoRapid – from Greece after the Greek government ordered a 25% price cut in all medicines due to their current financial difficulties. You can read Aunty Beeb’s full article here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10189367.stm Being evil, I always like to… Read More »
I recently did an interview for a diabetes magazine (yes, another magazine – we’re getting really big now in diabetes celebrity circles; such as they are). And I was asked what single development would make life easier for me as a member of the pancreatically-challenged hoard. I did think about a new pancreas grown from… Read More »
I’ve been reviewing my insulin history over the last 26 years and it appears that while I’m able to sustain a reasonably long relationship with an insulin brand, I have been a bit of an insulin tart over the years swapping to the latest thing when it’s caught my eye. When I was diagnosed, back… Read More »