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View Poll Results: What's your Symlin experience? | |
I've never heard of it.
|    | 22 | 45.83% | |
I've heard of it and would never try it.
|    | 7 | 14.58% | |
I have tried to get a prescription but can't.
|    | 1 | 2.08% | |
I use it and it helps. I like it.
|    | 11 | 22.92% | |
I tried it but quit. It was too difficult/didn't work.
|    | 7 | 14.58% |
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05-27-2007, 04:55 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Up in the Rockies
Posts: 244
| | | Symlin
As your probably know, Symlin is a hormone analog to the human hormone pramlintide. Both serve to regulate the speed at which food passes from the stomach to the intestines - conrolling how fast carbohydrates are processed and reducing post-meal spikes in BG levels. At least that's my lay interpretation. I've used it with good results for the last 14 months of my short 18 month run with T1. I'm curious about others experience and perceptions.
Joe
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05-27-2007, 05:49 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,310
| | | Just FYI...pramlintide is not produced by the body. Pramlintide acetate is the actual name of the drug. Symlin is the marketing/easier to say name for the synthetic hormone. It is used as a replacement for amylin missing in the body.
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05-28-2007, 05:04 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Up in the Rockies
Posts: 244
| | | Thanks Jedi - you're absolutely right. Based on responses vs views it would seem Symlin is kinda a non-issue...
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05-28-2007, 05:43 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Greece
Posts: 84
| | | All of us need symlin?
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05-28-2007, 06:14 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,310
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Originally Posted by spirosway  All of us need symlin? | Technically yes. However, it wasn't created until recently and it needs it's own injection. When insulin production stops for us, so does amylin (the human created symlin) production. However, most peoople don't mind the spikes in their BGs or find ways around them that using symlin is null.
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●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
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●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. |
05-28-2007, 08:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,835
| | | I used to use it and I liked it. I only quit because it's expensive and because I found I could control my bg without it by properly timing my boluses and by eating diabetic friendly.
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05-28-2007, 10:28 AM
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Posts: 5,627
| | | I can't vote. I've heard of it, and would try it, just haven't yet. I probably could get a prescription if I tried. |
05-29-2007, 05:19 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA
Posts: 647
| | | I've heard of it also (and can't vote).
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05-29-2007, 09:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Oregon
Posts: 29
| | | I used it for awhile but it stung too much and it was too unpredictable. Sometimes square bolusing for 2 hours worked great, other times I would go high, and other times I would go low. I have a hard enough time with insulin, I don't need another drug messing things up for me. Maybe I will try again another time, but right now, I'm okay with insulin only.
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05-29-2007, 10:44 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,027
| | | I was an "other" vote also. I have heard of it, I have thought about trying it and just haven't decided if it was worth the effort.
Good thread. |
05-31-2007, 07:44 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Poulsbo Wa
Posts: 152
| | | Been using it since it first came out. Have had some ups and downs, but I have always battled highs after any food, and I have an unexplained issue with highs that come on without any known cause. Symlin is the answer to that.
At first it would give me some mild nausea, but that faded with use. Now they are recommending up to 20 units with meals. At first the upper limit was at 10.
I also have found that generous use of Symlin will bring down an excursion into highs very quickly. Can lower from 350 to 100 in just over an hour, without taking a large bolus of insulin.
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06-01-2007, 12:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ohio
Posts: 1
| | | I have had trouble with taking Symlin. I've been on it for a couple months now.
When I take it, I wait about 10 minutes and then eat, and after I am done I take my insulin. About an hour after that my blood sugar will be fine (around 100-150) and then an hour later it spikes up to 250 or 300.
I'm really frustrated because I don't know why it's doing this. I'm tempted to quit, as well, but I like how I need less insulin and can't eat as much!! |
06-12-2007, 06:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1
| |  Nausea?
I'm debating starting Symlin. How bad is the nausea? |
06-14-2007, 02:51 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: BC, Canada
Posts: 58
| | I've been asking my Endo about Symlin for 6months now and it still seems like its still not out in Canada.  I would love to try it when it comes out!
I heard that it is expensive, approximately how much is it? |
06-14-2007, 05:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,835
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Originally Posted by ThreeStrikes I'm debating starting Symlin. How bad is the nausea? | I've never thrown up or felt like doing so. It's feels more like a strong hunger knot to me. It didn't always happen. If you can get a sample from your endo, I say give it a try. If you're on a pump, you want to do an extended bolus. If MDI, you may want to take 1/2 your dosage up front and the other 1/2 about 1-2 hours later.
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