[Diabetes-talk] insulin ?

[cheryl echevarria]

nope still used.

Cheryl Echevarria 
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: catdancing<mailto:catdancing at sbcglobal.net> 
  To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 12:06 PM
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] insulin ?


  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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