#1 Insulin is insulin
#2 It is up to the patient to monitor and self medicate in a timely manner
#3 Type 1 diabetes is a serious disease requiring special attention all of the time
#4 Blaming/suing the insulin company won’t help the ones who need the cheaper insulin and are responsible
I disagree. Insulin is not insulin. Insulin, like many drugs, varies with the brand. Sometimes a specific brand of medication is necessary, and the cheaper generics are not effective. Conversely, the opposite might be true. It varies with the patient. This young man had lived with Type 1 insulin quite successfully, and he knew how to take care of himself. This is a very sad story, I wish there was some agency or private charity that could have helped him.
Each patient has different needs and metabolism, therefore different insulin types.
Mixing and matching or simply changing types without concurrent serial glucose monitoring will get you killed.
From diabetesselfmanagement.com
Insulin is not insulin
Although the medicines can be purchased over the counter without a prescription, anyone considering ReliOn insulin should speak with his or her health-care provider about the pros and cons before starting: Because it is a type of human insulin formulation, which were first released in the 1980s, it can affect blood sugar levels in very different ways from newer insulins, with potentially dangerous consequences (including severe or even fatal blood glucose highs and lows). “It’s really, really important to work hand-in-hand with a health-care provider to help modify and adjust dosing and to understand how these insulins behave differently than other insulins they might have taken before,” says Jennifer Goldstein, MD.
Nor does suing the Manufactures of Prescription Pain Meds. But they are doing it anyway. Less than 1% ever become addicted to Prescription Pain Meds even after 2-3 decades on them. They become Dependent to function. Just like a Insulin patient does.
1 of the biggest Cons the CDC has pulled is this Fake Opioid Crisis. I’m 71 in a few days we called them Prescription Pain Meds not Opioids, Narcotics at most, we were taugh that the pain we have is INTRACTAVBLE PAIN, A SUBSET OF CHRONIC PAIN. It can only be treated with a Prescription Pain Med. PROPAGANDA USES THE SAME WORDS OF CHRONIC PAIN AND OPIOIDS TO CREATE A FALSE IMAGE THAT ILLICIT DRUGS ARE THE SAME AS PRESCRIPTION CONTROLLED BY THE FDA PAIN MEDS. Even my Seizure med is FDA controlled to a total of 20 mg per day. Doesn’t matter I need 30-40 mg per day. It’s the only 1 out of 15 I’ve been on that doesn’t have horrid side effects, cheap, and works. Just happens to be a Benzo called Valium. Lower the dose and I go into Seizures that are very dangerous.