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Thread: A couple of questions from the newbie

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01-23-2008, 11:41 AM

lilituc

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I am a: Type 1.5

Join Date: Jun 2006

Location: Bellevue, WA

Posts: 705

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJM335

Your doctors' statements makes me really suspicious - are they specialists in treating T1 diabetics? The standard joke was that NPH stood for Not Particularly Helpful.

I've heard that in Scandinavia, NPH is used differently. Not everyone is on a fixed dose twice a day, but instead adjust and use a form of MDI that can actually work. So maybe that's why they said that? I'd still go for the Lantus/Levemir myself, though.

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Dx T2 3/2005
Correctly dx T1 (LADA) 11/2006
MM 522 w/NovoLog since 1/07
Previously on Actos, Starlix, Metformin ER, Lantus