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Mark Rawlinson

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Insulin
My Insulin is Toujeo Glargine I also have seen Insulin Detemer and Insulin Degludec. What does the second name mean is it the way it is manufactured, a branding type name or different types of Insulin ( I always thought Insulin was insulin (a bit like eggs are eggs)) I am really asking out of curiosity.
 
Hi @Mark Rawlinson a quick google search will tell you everything you need.
The cliff notes Degludec is longer lasting up to 42 hours compared to Detemir 16 hour (average).

Both have potential side effects such as hypoglycaemia, with conflicting information some search results say " Degludec increases nocturnal Hypoglycaemia" and other pages say it reduces it. :banghead:

There is usual someone on here who will have more specific details of the side effects. I'm sure they will be along soon.
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Often a brand name, though for your Toujeo Glargine the Toujeo is the brand name and the Glarine is the family of insulin (i.e. general chemical composition) it belongs to.

Depending on which way you want to chop it up there are a range of different (chemical) families of insulins which have different activity rates/curves/speeds (i.e. rapid/fast, short, intermediate, long.)

Have a look e.g. here https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/insulin/ (look especially at the rapid and long-acting which have a range of families listed at the end after the "Includes ...." bit)

To make life marginally more complicated, an insulin is sometimes referred to as being e.g. Lantus-similar or Lantus-type (etc), because that was the first/most popular of a given family of insulins.
 
SimonP78 said:
Often a brand name, though for your Toujeo Glargine the Toujeo is the brand name and the Glarine is the family of insulin (i.e. general chemical composition) it belongs to.

Depending on which way you want to chop it up there are a range of different (chemical) families of insulins which have different activity rates/curves/speeds (i.e. rapid/fast, short, intermediate, long.)

Have a look e.g. here https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/insulin/ (look especially at the rapid and long-acting which have a range of families listed at the end after the "Includes ...." bit)

To make life marginally more complicated, an insulin is sometimes referred to as being e.g. Lantus-similar or Lantus-type (etc), because that was the first/most popular of a given family of insulins.
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Thank you, I am fairly new to Insulin (or treatment for diabetes) and am always curious to understanding what is what
 
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