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<blockquote data-quote="avi" data-source="post: 98367" data-attributes="member: 16456"><p>Hi</p><p>Went to see my consultant this morning with a view to get her to change my insulin. Was expecting some resistance from her at least. However, she couldn't have been any better and wrote me a prescription for porcine insuling, long acting one. I am to try it alongside novo rapid and see how I get on. My question is this, she asked me why I wanted to change to animal rather than try the human insulin and I said I felt it was more natural. She said that it was also manufactured nowadays and not derived from the animals themselves? She also wants to put me on Metaformin as she says this should reduce my insulin requirement, not that I take that big a dosage anyway, and that it should help me to shed some weight. I,m type 1.5. I get the new insulin tomorrow and hopefully they are going to send me out a pen for it as well. I'm to try this for a month and see how I get on. She also said that the dosage should be the same amount as I take of Lantus only difference being I will have to split the dose as it only works for 18 hours.</p><p></p><p>Avi</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="avi, post: 98367, member: 16456"] Hi Went to see my consultant this morning with a view to get her to change my insulin. Was expecting some resistance from her at least. However, she couldn't have been any better and wrote me a prescription for porcine insuling, long acting one. I am to try it alongside novo rapid and see how I get on. My question is this, she asked me why I wanted to change to animal rather than try the human insulin and I said I felt it was more natural. She said that it was also manufactured nowadays and not derived from the animals themselves? She also wants to put me on Metaformin as she says this should reduce my insulin requirement, not that I take that big a dosage anyway, and that it should help me to shed some weight. I,m type 1.5. I get the new insulin tomorrow and hopefully they are going to send me out a pen for it as well. I'm to try this for a month and see how I get on. She also said that the dosage should be the same amount as I take of Lantus only difference being I will have to split the dose as it only works for 18 hours. Avi [/QUOTE]
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