Re: Insulin - A Voice for Choice

acm@xxxxxx wrote:

On 22 Okt., 06:19, "Elizabeth Blake" <poodleb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I was diagnosed in 1987 and was immediately put on Lilly's Humulin NPH +
Regular. I vaguely remember the ndo in the hospital telling me that these
newer insulins were so much better than the older kind.


This is precisely the topic of Dr. Teuscher's book. The evidence, from proper
studies, of the advantages of genetically engineered insulin is somewhere
between sparse and non-existent. It is a life safer for people
allergic to animal insulin, though.

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well hey, she's never used animal insulin

but i've run into this type of comment,
not only here, with pharmacists when
i mention that i'm using beef insulin

of course, you mean it a narrow literal
sense, and not in the broader sense
that pharmacists and t1s do

at this point, my hunch is that even
"weird" beef insulin is not any more
allergenic than these weird analog insulins

my current experience of this past 9 years
(with beef and pork insulin) back this up,
at least for me

what pharmacists, and other t1s here, remember
is skin and allergy issues from more than
20+ years ago; which were largely due to
impurity issues with animal insulins which
were finally solved roughly 20-to-25 years ago


bill t1 since '57, ex 8-yr pumper
.

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