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Weekly Insulin?

Mr_Pot

Mr_Pot

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
My wife tells me that her sister, who is T2D, has started on Insulin, with one injection a week. I don't know much about Insulin regimes but I haven't heard of that before. Is that likely and how does it work?
 
I know someone who has Trulicity weekly. He said it was insulin too, perhaps becasue he associates injecting something for diabetes as insulin?

He sid it make his wee a lot, so I dont think he is on insulin, but i didnt argue the point with him. He is 82 and has probably forgotten more than I have ever known.
 
lucylocket61 said:
I know someone who has Trulicity weekly. He said it was insulin too, perhaps becasue he associates injecting something for diabetes as insulin?

He sid it make his wee a lot, so I dont think he is on insulin, but i didnt argue the point with him. He is 82 and has probably forgotten more than I have ever known.
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Their site says it's not insulin:

"Trulicity is not insulin. It helps activate your body to release its own insulin."

https://www.trulicity.com/about-trulicity/#how-trulicity-works

It's peppered with warnings about it causing thyroid cancer, yikes...
 
There is no weekly insulin. It's easy to assume that someone with diabetes who is injecting medication must be injecting insulin, but that's just an assumption, and a rather worrying one as it implies your sister in law has little to no understanding of the medication she is injecting.

The longest lasting insulin, Tresiba, lasts about 42 hours, and even that really needs to be taken daily. I don't think it's prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes where the insulins of choice would be a standard basal insulin, like lantus, taken once or twice a day or a mixed insulin, again taken once or twice a day.

There are a variety of injectable medication for type 2 diabetes, things like:
  • Tanzeum (weekly)
  • Trulicity (weekly)
  • Bydureon (weekly)
These are GLP-1 receptor agonists that encourage the pancreas to produce more insulin and inhibit the liver's release of glucose.
 
catapillar said:
a rather worrying one as it implies your sister in law has little to no understanding of the medication she is injecting.
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More likely to be my wife misunderstanding on the phone. Mention of diabetes and injecting probably meant she heard Insulin whatever my SIL actually said.
 
I did read somewhere tablet form insulin being looked into. Not sure how it's panning out thou.
 
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