• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Extremely high sugar for no apparent reason...?

Hi Howie, porcine insulin is not synthetic. It is purified and contains preservatives, but it is insulin from a pig. I am very grateful to this forum, as i got good advice when I first joined, which helped me make a decision that subsequently improved my health and diabetes control.
Jus
 
Natural animal insulin is extracted from the pancreases of slaughtered animals – namely pigs & cattle.

In its early inception human synthetic insulin was created from transforming pig insulin using a chemical process so it is easy to get confused with natural animal insulin and synthetic insulin especially when pigs were involved in both!!
Human synthetic insulin is now made by bacterial synthesis using recombinant DNA technique & involves yeast or Escherichia coli.
GM synthetic analogues differ by certain amino acids and have different kinetics of action.

Whilst I acknowledge that not all the difficulties diabetics experience are related to the use of synthetic insulin’s unfortunately all too often there is a denial by health professionals and diabetics themselves that the synthetic insulin is causing problems. To quote Professor Tauscher "The problems are always blamed on the patient and never on the product."

When human synthetic insulin first arrived in approx 1982 a significant number of diabetics experienced problems and unfortunately with synthetic analogues an increasing number of diabetics are also suffering debilitating side effects.

I’m afraid we can no longer deny that these side effects from analogues do not exist. They are not in people’s heads, they are not imagining them, they are living them and I for one would not want to wish these side effects on my worst enemy because they are devastating and have devastating consequences not only on health but also on general living.

Individuals with diabetes each have different responses to and needs for insulin so there is no one type that works best for everyone & that is one of the difficulties when NHS protocols for diabetes care are funneling Type 1 (& Type 2) Diabetics down a set pathway.

Diabetes is a hard enough struggle as it is & all of us need the best possible type of insulin to maximise control of our blood glucose levels and ensure the best quality of life possible.

Sorry Tigs you original posting has gone slightly off course.

Txx
 
You asked a question, you got an answer.

Is it really that important to you that you get only exactly who you want to answer the question?

You got the answer, and the right answer.
 
Tigs,

I think it looks like you had a night time hypo or were having one when you woke up and the resulting high is a consequence of that; I would agree that it was a liver dump.

It is also common for the higher the blood sugar levels the more insulin you would need to reduce it; sometimes markedly so. I forget the biology of this, but if you were say 12mmol/l and 2 units of fast acting dropped that to 8mmol/l over a couple of hours it won't follow that 2 units will drop 28mmol/l to 24 over the same period. You'd need a much larger corrective dose.

You may need to fiddle with your basal insulin levels if this happens a lot, or reduce the bolus at night?

All the best

Dillinger
 
Back
Top