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View Poll Results: Would you like to try inhaled insulin? | |
Yes
|    | 8 | 11.11% | |
No
|    | 43 | 59.72% | |
After more people have
|    | 7 | 9.72% | |
Maybe
|    | 5 | 6.94% | |
Undecided
|    | 9 | 12.50% |
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03-17-2007, 01:18 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,500
| | | Would you like to try inhaled insulin?
I would. Might as well see what it's like. Public Pole. |
03-17-2007, 05:43 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Gales... Rain... Sleet... Snow.. you name it, I've got it! (UK peep!)
Posts: 1,428
| | | I have been offered it - but I would prefer to try it after more people have.
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03-17-2007, 07:11 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,232
| | | I was offered in a trial at my doctor's office in which I turned down. If it were more precise and the dosing was equal then yes. But I don't want to have to learn that if I take 14 units of insulin for a breakfast buffet that I have to give 1 3mg pack and 2 1 mg packs. But if I want to eat 7 units of food, then I can only give 6 units of insulin and I just have to let the last unit run high. Also, I'd like to see the dispensers alot smaller, like about the size of the Ultrasmart BG meter or a pump would be max size for me.
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03-17-2007, 08:04 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NJ
Posts: 387
| | | I really just started injectables, but I'm not certain I'd try something with such an x factor regarding dosages. Not to mention I don't know how it would work in someone with lung issues.
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03-17-2007, 08:33 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 5,519
| | | I voted "no" but I need to say that's a "No, not the stuff we have now." Maybe if safety was proven, size was decreased, and delivery was more precise I would. But that seems to be a ways off. |
03-17-2007, 08:37 AM
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Posts: 576
| | | Dosage would be a nightmare..........How much did you sniff....How much got absorbed.....How much ummmm snot is there present.....
Just too many variables.
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03-17-2007, 09:32 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Douglasville, GA
Posts: 2,573
| | I voted no. I couldn't anyway since I have asthma. Even if I could tho, I'd always be worried if I got enough of it in my system. At least with a shot, I know it all went in there! 
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[ A1c ]
6.9 - 01/07
6.0 - 05/07
5.9 - 09/07
6.4 - 3/08  
[ Meter ]
UltraSmart/Ultra2/Contour
[ Meds ]
Metformin 1000mg 2x, Novolin N 20u 2x, Novolin R 1:10
Lisinopril 20mg 1x, Lovastatin 40mg 1x, Aspirin 81mg 1x, Albuterol as needed
[ Other Conditions ]
Coccidioidomycosis aka Valley Fever Dx'd 1.17.94
- Asthma
- Chronic Bronchitis
Hypertention
Hyperlipidemia
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03-17-2007, 10:37 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,833
| | | I wouldn't want to as I think the pump is a better solution for me.
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03-17-2007, 10:44 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MIdwest, USA
Posts: 1,067
| | | I voted no. Too many variables with dosing.
I recall several years ago (3, 4 years ago?) when a member of this board ("Andrea from Paris" -- I wonder where she went off to?) said that she was part of a study for inhaled insulin.
She reported that when everyone was gathered together to report their opinion of the product, that she was the only one (of about 10 others) that did not like it.
Other Type 1's were surprised that other type 1's did not report the same dislike. We later suspected that perhaps those other people were just saying they liked it because they were hoping to be asked to get in on more free trials. |
03-17-2007, 10:54 AM
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03-17-2007, 10:57 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Land of Oz/Kansas
Posts: 705
| | | I definitely feel that the pump is the best answer for me. Never have been interested in the inhalable insulin.
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03-17-2007, 11:00 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,500
| | | I can't believe no one else would just want to try it. I tried the pump before I decided no way. I would do the same for the inhaled insulin. Never know until you try. |
03-17-2007, 12:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
Posts: 7,026
| | | For me, the thing is that down the line, it could be harmful....This stuff hasn't been out for 20 years, so nobody knows what health ramifications may come from using it in 20 years (....Yet). Now I know I got on Humalog right away when it came out, but without insulin, I'd die, and with the Velosulin I was using (buffered regular), I wasn't having as steady of readings.
It's not to say I'd Never try inhaled insulin, it's just that there are currently other options available, and that until the inhaled insulin has been better tested, I'm just not personally sold on it.
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03-18-2007, 03:02 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 3,213
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by ladytaz  I voted no. I couldn't anyway since I have asthma. Even if I could tho, I'd always be worried if I got enough of it in my system. At least with a shot, I know it all went in there! |
Totally  what Melissa said. I'm not allowed
even though my Asthma is much better now.
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03-18-2007, 03:59 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,679
| |  Dosing would be an issue
Quote:
Originally Posted by w5wjp Dosage would be a nightmare..........How much did you sniff....How much got absorbed.....How much ummmm snot is there present.....
Just too many variables. | Yeah i'm with you bill. like the nose is to detect smell and oxygen, Not insulin though. Sorry not for me. 
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