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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jozoe" data-source="post: 492293" data-attributes="member: 34674">Hi, this is my first post on the forum even though I have been reading posts for about a year now.  I am considering asking a specialist today whether I can change my insulin back to porcine.  When I was first diagnosed about 33 years ago I was initially prescribed the pork insulin.  No problems at all with this everything was just fine. Then they had a big sweep and put everyone on the human, no choices, no testing etc. Within a week I was head first in the freezer at work and being carried home everyday with hypo's, woke up in Hospital a few times as well.  I reported everything to the specialist who told me I was not managing my condition correctly, not eating the right diet or taking the right amount of insulin, (these issues had never come up before) and for not getting it right he got my driving licence revoked, even though I had never had an accident or a hypo whilst in the car. I learnt after that the way to survive was to take less insulin and eat just that little bit extra in carbs. Dangerous I agree but it worked for a while but unfortunately as I have got older not working so well and the hypo's are daily as are the highs.  Fingers crossed as no other complications, so I am not totally out of control.  Looked into the pump therapy and asked about it but was pooh poohed by the doctor. Actually the pump may not be for me anyway as I don't have any issues with injecting and as far as I can see that is the only benefit. Didn't know until about 2 years ago that they still made the animal insulins, at the time everything was working in my survival book, so put it to the back of my mind really. Now things are getting hard and nobody seems to have any answers, my fingers are red raw with testing, the results always a shock and even if they look OK within an hour will change dramatically, warnings of lows are fading which is scary with no logical reasons only sudden drops or spikes.  Anyway don't know if changing the insulin will work, maybe looking back everything did not seem so problematic, but really need to try something else rather than wait for the next appointment or get passed on to the dietician or anyone else they can think of to keep me busy and out of their hair.</blockquote>

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