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just watching an episode of the exceptionally medically accurate House MD, in which he gives himself an insulin shot and hypos in one minute, was thinking how nice it would be if insulin worked immediately like it did in this episode!!
 
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That's why I prefer "Sci fi". You know what yer getting with that genre....
Why did House jack up on insulin..?
 
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Why did House jack up on insulin..?
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I always thought that Doctor was a junkie, I have not watched many episodes so do not know if he is or not. Come to think of it I did know he was diabetic either
 
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isjoberg said:
Ah he was having an episode of psychosis and wanted to have 'insulin shock' (assuming that's a hypo) to reset his brain / knock it out for a bit...
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"Insulin shock therapy"?? Was he supervised..?
I believe the process involves going to "coma city" & back...
Or pretty **** close to the subberbs.

 
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Jaylee said:
"Insulin shock therapy"?? Was he supervised..?
I believe the process involves going to "coma city" & back...
Or pretty **** close to the subberbs.

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He wanted to stop seeing Amber (Wilsons ex) - imagine if a severe hypo was just that, a mental reset! Oh Hollywood the nation built on dreams
 
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isjoberg said:
He wanted to stop seeing Amber (Wilsons ex) - imagine if a severe hypo was just that, a mental reset! Oh Hollywood the nation built on dreams
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i thought it was a nation built on cocaine...? But somehow insulin seems so "un-addictive" to anyone who don't need it to stay alive.. T1 the new "foreign legion", now we do it to forget..!
 
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Jaylee said:
i thought it was a nation built on cocaine...? But somehow insulin seems so "un-addictive" to anyone who don't need it to stay alive.. T1 the new "foreign legion", now we do it to forget..!
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Well if you look at what constitutes an addiction (go out of your way to get it etc ) I mean you could say we have that for insulin !
 
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isjoberg said:
Well if you look at what constitutes an addiction (go out of your way to get it etc ) I mean you could say we have that for insulin !
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A fair point. However. If diabetes was cured outright?
It would be a lot easier to hand in our non required "stash" of insulin. As opposed to other "substances" I can think of... ;)
 
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