fallongerie
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Yes, Toujeo is recommended by Sanofi as the latest basal injectable. Toujeo is to be released only next week, so there are no comments to follow yet on how people actually feel about it. Toujeo is going to replace Lantus , as Lantus is losing its patent soon, meaning the generics are going to take over in its place.
Toujeo was approved for use in the United States on Feb. 25 and was RECOMMENDED for approval by European regulators two days later.
Toujeo is said to have a somewhat smoother action than Lantus.
I'd be reticent to use it as well, given that my issues don't seem to be with the insulin per se, rather the operational mechanism. It sounds as though Toujeo is very similar to Lantus in this respect and rather than have the insulin not absorb, I think I'll be sticking with protein linking rather than crystalline precipitation.I'd be reluctant to use Toujeo after finding Lantus totally unsuitable for me. I'd be interested to hear from Afrezza users who use a non Sanofi basal . I don't see why it couldn't be used with anything other than Lantus or Toujeo , but then again, Sanofi are hardly likely to recommend anything other than a basal from their own stable
Signy
Amy Tenderich is a well known Type 1 diabetes advocate blogger in the USA. She has been using Afrezza for three weeks and just posted a short article about her experience:
http://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/test-driving-new-inhaled-insulin-afrezza#4
Are you only here to talk about Sanofi products?Yes, Toujeo is recommended by Sanofi as the latest basal injectable. Toujeo is to be released only next week, so there are no comments to follow yet on how people actually feel about it. Toujeo is going to replace Lantus , as Lantus is losing its patent soon, meaning the generics are going to take over in its place.
Toujeo was approved for use in the United States on Feb. 25 and was RECOMMENDED for approval by European regulators two days later.
Toujeo is said to have a somewhat smoother action than Lantus.
Are you only here to talk about Sanofi products?
So you have researched Tresiba, PEGLispro, Freestyle Libre, to name a few recent developments?No, anything at all. And your question is rather odd.
These are the most recent for new products and both happen to be Sanofi. Always looking to learn and find the best for BG control.
The human body is so very complicated and how one person reacts to a drug is never the same as another, so the more new products there are to choose from , the better a chance that a good fit can be found for anyone. It's always like that - someone is sooo happy with product X and they can't understand why it is terrible for the next person. It is always that way. So, in view of this , we need new ideas and drugs in diabetes and innovative thinking to come up with better and better ways to treat it. It would be great to find that there are new products that work safer and faster, and just maybe there is that in Afrezza, so that is the reason I had researched it so much over the last year. I don't care who makes it or markets it.
I wish you a good day !
So you have researched Tresiba, PEGLispro, Freestyle Libre, to name a few recent developments?
i Admit its never been the injecting thats Borthered me having to inject 4/5 times a day is fine, its the finger pricking that gets me.
I don't mind either that much. What I do mind is my blood sugar being all over the place - and I'm on a pump.
Take last night for example. I had a low carb broth for my dinner, I took 5 units of novorapid, and two hours later my BG was 15. I corrected. An hour later it's 16. I corrected again. All night it was high. Before I go to bed? Down to 4. Meaning I need to eat something. Sometimes I think it does it just to **** me off. I just can't handle it.
There's a conversation at TuDiabetes.org you can relate to:I don't mind either that much. What I do mind is my blood sugar being all over the place - and I'm on a pump.
Take last night for example. I had a low carb broth for my dinner, I took 5 units of novorapid, and two hours later my BG was 15. I corrected. An hour later it's 16. I corrected again. All night it was high. Before I go to bed? Down to 4. Meaning I need to eat something. Sometimes I think it does it just to **** me off. I just can't handle it.
There's a conversation at TuDiabetes.org you can relate to:
http://www.tudiabetes.org/forum/topics/taking-the-plunge-with-afrezza?id=583967:Topic:3647225&page=8#comments
I don't mind either that much. What I do mind is my blood sugar being all over the place - and I'm on a pump.
Take last night for example. I had a low carb broth for my dinner, I took 5 units of novorapid, and two hours later my BG was 15. I corrected. An hour later it's 16. I corrected again. All night it was high. Before I go to bed? Down to 4. Meaning I need to eat something. Sometimes I think it does it just to **** me off. I just can't handle it.
how far apart did you correct? maybe it was a cumlative effect off all the corrections took you down? i hate being that low before bed
Just started Afreeza today. The chemist couldn't tell me how to use it. My Endocrinologist was puzzled because it comes in 4 unit doses. This is fine for a type 1 but most type 2s I know use 20 to 30 units before a meal. They should have given me the 8 unit cartridges, but sounds like he didn't know they exist. Hopefully I won't have to use this much with Afreeza as it's more efficient way to get it in your blood. It can cause breathing problems especially for a smoker or possibly an x smoker. Two cases of lung cancer developed in the trials, but may be a fluke too. I had already purchased stock in the company that makes it - Mannkind at $2.65 a share. It's been as high as $6 a share lately.