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- Type of diabetes
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- Pump
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/jan...improve-therapy-for-people-with-diabetes.html
Have they invented another insulin to cure a problem that scarcely exists? Apparently Glycoinsulin is designed for insulin pumps. It is supposed to prevent blockages in the delivery tube.
I have used a Medtronic pump with Novorapid and now with Fiasp insulin for more than ten years and have never had a blockage or delivery restriction. I swap the sites in my abdomen regularly and only change my catheter every four days. My Hb1Ac is consistently less than 7 in old money.
We are all different and maybe others have to change their catheters much more frequently to avoid blockages. But the cynic in me wonders if there may be a more commercially motivated reason, which is patent protection. That in turn leads to a monopoly of supply and unnecessarily high prices. That is a problem that has bedevilled the cost of insulin in the USA.
Have they invented another insulin to cure a problem that scarcely exists? Apparently Glycoinsulin is designed for insulin pumps. It is supposed to prevent blockages in the delivery tube.
I have used a Medtronic pump with Novorapid and now with Fiasp insulin for more than ten years and have never had a blockage or delivery restriction. I swap the sites in my abdomen regularly and only change my catheter every four days. My Hb1Ac is consistently less than 7 in old money.
We are all different and maybe others have to change their catheters much more frequently to avoid blockages. But the cynic in me wonders if there may be a more commercially motivated reason, which is patent protection. That in turn leads to a monopoly of supply and unnecessarily high prices. That is a problem that has bedevilled the cost of insulin in the USA.
