Sad - 30 friend just died of Kidney Failure

Type 1 and LADA
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[quote=“Terry4, post:20, topic:57003, full:true”]Can you imagine trying to control blood sugar with Regular insulin, only? It appears that before 1936 there were no long or intermediate acting insulins.
[/quote]I would imagine that when there was only regular insulin (animal based, but “regular”) diabetes became a manageable chronic sickness, rather than a treatable chronic condition.

My words above were chosen carefully. I expect that someone who only had R to treat with would be a lot “sicker” (i.e. feeling bad, complications, etc.) than those who came after the NPH formulation became available.

There were no glucometers then either, so “feeling bad” was a more regularly used metric for driving treatment. Also, I doubt they understood IC ratios in those days as well.

Barbaric. It distresses me greatly to hear of conditions toward that kind of situation in other countries.

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Although it is unfortunate, there are human beings in far worse situations all over the planet than having diabetes and only access to regular insulin. I’ve spent months in places like Sierra Leone and have seen some pretty brutal realities of the world.

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