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    Allergy to Insulin

    Are you able to get bovine or porcine insulin? It's not that common any more but, although not impossible, they have a very low rate of allergic reactions. You may also want to look into Nateglinide, Repaglinide and Acarbose and see if they are available and viable for you.
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    Metformin Dose and Effect

    All, maybe most, of the clinical data and prescribing literature say that a dose of 1500mg is the lowest where you see "clinically significant results." But I agree with what's said previously, it depends massively on the person, how they eat and how active they are. The one thing that studies...
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    Where in the world.......

    I guess this is as good a place as any to introduce myself. Originally from Cheltenham, lived in Portsmouth for 3 years when I was at uni and been living in the US, Cleveland Ohio to be exact, since 2003. It's kind of interesting reading the posts here, totally different healthcare models but...
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    Help! Type 1/Lada or Type 2

    This sounds similar to me, especially the "treatment works for a while" line. I tried 6 different pills in multiple combos, each one worked for a month or two before numbers crept up. After banging on about getting tested for this and that I got a type 1 diagnosis a couple of years after the...
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    lantus manufacturing problem?

    There has been a problem with the Solostar pen for a while. I'm in the US and it was initially reported only for the pens that were for apidra. There was a problem at the manufacturing facility in Germany in June/July last year and it was shut down for a while. Sanofi-Aventis were predicting...
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