[Diabetes-talk] insulin ?

[catdancing]

I too am considered brittle I don't think that word is used any longer but 
that is what i was orginally told 42 years ago.
Debbie
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Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] insulin ?


> Debbie,
>
> That is kind of my ratio, but the short acting varies.  I take 40  units 
> of
> Lantis and with coverage during the day I take around that much in  short
> acting.  Right now do to a tapering of steroids that I have been on  for 
> the
> last 2 months due to asthma I was up to almost double the amount of  short
> acting as my long acting insulin.  I also take Janeuvia.  This  is what my
> endocrinologist has come up to work for me under her  supervision.  We are 
> in
> contact either in the office or by phone calls  every other month.
>
> I am and have always been a "brittle diabetic".  Some people say that  is
> not a term used, but I have been told that is what it is for over 51 
> years.
>
> Joyce
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