Everyone who si diabetic has thoughts on insulin. I had been on NpH and R for a while otget used to it, then I went on Lantus.

While Lantus is good, it is not perfect. I can get teh same long acting results from 70/30 mix or NpH and R dual shot and ot woudl be cheaper.
I found with the Lantus a few small catches. One it can giev you teh munchies. For some reason it can trigger a binge eating. I am nto teh only one who discovered this.
Lantus also monkeys wiht hormones. And has a direct bearing on mentrual cycles.

I dont reccomend it for thsoe who are type 1.5,

It is grat for active people and fo rthose who are busy though.. so it balances itself out!

julie

I found the same with the Lantus, I'll never take it again, and I always hear people rave about it though. If I had to go back to shots, I'd do NPH and R again, hands down, it's cheaper and I had much better results than with the analogs. Everyone's different though, so they have to do what works for them.

Personally, I had terrible luck with Lantus, and the reason is because I have almost no basal insulin needs except for overnight (after 30 years with type 1, I still have a fairly high c-peptide). I personally found Lente worked best for me, but since its no longer available, I've switched to NPH overnight and that seems to work well. (I tried pumping, but did not care for it) However, its only a matter of time before all forms of human insulin are removed from the market. Novo Nordisk's CEO stated his intention to "migrate their portfolio" from unpatented human insulin to patent-protected insulin analogs by 2010. This year, we saw Lilly remove Lente and Ultralente from the market.

Its worth noting that insulin analogs may have been widely adopted, but they are no more "human" than porcine (pig) insulin. If you examine the genetic structure of some of the analogs (I am thinking of Novolog, for example), Novolog differs from human insulin by 2 amino acids, which is the same difference as porcine insulin differs from human insulin. However, unlike porcine insulin, analogs exist nowhere in nature.

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