Posted on 02/04/2015 8:31:54 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL
Hoping to appeal to millions of needle-phobic Americans with diabetes, drugmakers Sanofi and Mannkind have just launched Afrezza, an insulin that's inhaled, rather than injected.
Afrezza was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last June for patients with either Type 1 or 2 diabetes, to be used along with other medicines, diet and exercise.
Paris-based Sanofi SA, a major player in the huge diabetes treatment market, then licensed Afrezza's worldwide marketing rights from Mannkind Corp. of Valencia, California, which developed Afrezza.
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Did you ever try this product?
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My son, since he’s been 19 months old, has had to prick his finger to get BCG readings 8 to 10 times daily. He has to have a sub-cutaneous set inserted into his leg every three days.
It gets to you.
How old is your son today? Afrezza is an amazing product. It was sandbagged by Sanofi and MannKind has taken over their own marketing. Its just been Re-launched in July 2016. Users report lowered A1C measurements and great BG levels.
I will be watching, but it will have to be approved for Type I’s first I would imagine. For insulin resistant folks, the Type II’s, this is probably the elixir.
Though they are both called diabetes, the two disease are wildly different. In Type I’s, the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin, period, not even basal.
As such, you would have to supplement with Lantus I would imagine.
For sick day management, when the kid can’t hold down food because he’s 850 and throwing ketones, this would be the cat’s meow.
We’ll see what the endocrinologists have to say in the next few months.
There were a couple of Canadian doctors that used capscasin to treat the pancreas and get it secreting again. They pretty much went off the grid.
That’s the thing about cures: the only money you can make with them is blackmailing the companies providing the leading treatment and mitigation strategies with it.
Novo Nordisks 10K actually states that producing insulin is what they do. The mission statement says zero about curing diabetes, for example.
Were a Novo CEO actually to suggest finding a cure, they would find him in Rock Creek under the same tree they found Foster.
Actually it is approved for T1D and getting great results. Read this Mike Hoskins article.
http://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/afrezza-news-updates#6
http://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/afrezza-news-updates#2
and this great blog by Sam Finta.
I’m a type 1 and have been doing this four the past 20 years. However, three years ago I switched over to an insulin pump, the wireless Omnipod. I also wear a constant glucose monitor from Dexcom. It sure beats having to get shots all the time. I still have to insert the cannula, a flexible needle-like tube, but it stays in place from anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks.
Both are a godsend! I am very brittle and by programming my pod I insure specific dosages of insulin as it is needed. The Dexcom tells me when I’m too high or low, and I either have the pod deliver more insulin or I eat/drink something when I get too low. In my case, it means I won’t die in the middle of the night due to low blood sugar.
I’m not sure I’d even want to go to the breathable insulin, as I couldn’t program it, but have to remember.
A lot of folks have ditched their pumps and use Afrezza instead.
3 years ago we sold our Los Angeles home to Alfred Mann's daughter. That was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Despite that, we heard all about the trials of this drug and it sounded like a good idea, so we bought some stock. We however dumped it a year ago since it didn't seem like it was going to fly, then Alfred Mann died so we figured that was the end of that.
ouch that is not a good story. I’m a mannkind shareholder too.
Well, my pump is wireless, which means I can load it with insulin and let the transmitter basal or bolus me as needed. It automated the guessing process on blousing, too. It takes my blood sugar level, asks me for the grams of carbs I’m eating, and computes and delivers the bolus. The basal rate is preprogrammed so I don’t even need to know what/when to take.
With Afrezza, I would have to do all that manually. I can’t see how that’s better.
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So far she's at least still mentioning the history/legacy of the place and of my MIL, so we're appreciative for that.
We went back there and looked to see what they're doing with the place and Karla Mann was nice as can be to us, seemingly forgetting how horrible she treated us during the sale (signing an agreement to allow us up to 60 days to close escrow, then threatening to sue us if we didn't close in 7 days, and a few things like that).
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