| Long time listener - first time caller
Found this great site searching for info on medications my doc is proposing I switch to, but I've never heard of.
I'm new to DF, but not diabetes. First diagnosed circa 1970, I've had type 1 for around 37 years. Also lucky enough to have found ten years ago that one of my sons has juvenile diabetes as well.
I have always been stubborn and set in my ways considering delivery methods, I have injected since day 1. The last 15 years I worked for the environmental department of a large industrial firm, a demanding position which sent me up and down 10 flights of stairs, inside crawl spaces, stair cages, containers, harnesses, lift equipment, etc., as well as working with caustics and acids, getting in/out of full protective gear and self contained aparatus. I was always afraid of wearing a pump because there was literally hundreds of ways for a pump and/or canula to be damaged on a daily basis, or submersed in water, oil, mud, immunol, and other production waste products.
Having separated from this position, my doc has finally talked me into a few options - using Symlin or/and getting a pump. I'm first required to wear the monitor recording my glucose level every ten second for 72 hours. Later a pump company is going to visit with options.
And now a question for those who have read this far - I see that several people in the forum are using Symlin, and I would appreciate the insight of these folks into their experience with the drug, be it good or bad.
My biggest concern with the Symlin rests with one of the contraindications listed on the manufacturers website, gastroparesis. The drug functions, and helps patients lose weight, by itself slowing the gastric emptying process. Obviously, one doesn't want 2X slowing. I'm wondering what other type 1 or even type 2 users of Symlin have experienced in reference to this.
Accept my apology in advance for the long windedness, and be forwarned should I reply to your inquiry!!!  | 
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