Snodger said:
yep, good point - but surely it's possible if you shift your targets up a bit? I don't mean running above 10 all the time, but maybe not aiming for DAFNE targets.
I'm not speaking from experience at this point so please forgive that, but from what I've read, the thing that makes many people on synthetics lose symptoms is repeated hypoing. So you would keep your symptoms as long as you returned to only hypoing about 2x a week. I think.
twice a wk hypos sounds fairly possible, if one was shooting for higher-but-not-by-much readings. i guess just the idea of life sans hypos -- at first glance anyways -- strikes me as crazy talk
as for the reason(s) behind loss/serious diminishing of symptoms, i certainly dont have the expertise to say
its definitely only this, that or the other thing, all i've really got to draw on is my own experience, which tells an
extremely different story (more on that later on).
Snodger said:
HOWEVER - as far as I understand this is comparing analogue vs analogue insulins, ie no change of insulin involved. I'm really interested in the fact that returning to porcine got you your symptoms back. Are you back on porcine for all injections now? Have you/your doctor reported the info anywhere? I'm fascinated by the fact that there is all this data about how good animal insulins are, but it's only held by diabetics, and is consistently ignored (as far as I can see) by medics and epidemiologists. Is anyone 'in power' listening to your story?
no, theyve got (very poor) excuses for every one of my insulin-related probs and even poorer excuses for the coinciding of decade-old probs suddenly disappearing with a return to porcine. so theres no reporting, or even acknowledgement, because the problem, & thus the solution, does not exist. the insulin, according to every single one of them, can
not be a problem, can
not be related to problems, can
not be anything but
perfect. Lilly/Merck/etc said so.
until the next flavor comes out, which is invariably even
perfecter.
in the US, Pharma owns the
entire game, very plain and very simple. incredibly unfortunate for some of us, but i guess shareholders make out ok.
edit: just to help put into context --- 14yrs bovine/porcine, then 8yrs porcine & fake human in$ulin, couple yrs of just fake human, then 5yrs ananalogue in$ulin, then 4ish years switching amongst porcines and synthetics in diff combinations or as "solo" insulins (ie: nothing but fake human for 6mos, nothing but porcine for 3 mos, then back to some other combo).