Pork was my first insulin type! Too bad it did not small or taste as good as a pork roast!
I remember having to roll NPH and make sure the suspension was mixed before filling/injecting it.
It makes me feel old that a majority of people diagnosed in the last 10 years or so have probably never used R or NPH.
There used to be “Lente” and “Ultralente” too. Both were suspension i.e. you had to roll them around but they lasted longer than NPH.
But it got harder and harder to get through the 1990’s and then completely disappeared in the early 2000’s.
I think Lantus has only been around since 2002 or so… Humalog goes a little further back to like 1996 or 1997. That makes them newcomers!
I think Lantus came out in 2000 in the States, although in Canada we didn’t get it until 2005.
Humalog was 1996 in the States, and I think 1997 here in Canada.
You say you are high and assume everyone knows what you mean until you see the weird looks you are getting…
ugh, it’s been who knows how many years since I’ve used it but I can still remember the smell of that stuff!
Decaff
Oh, I have forgotten about the Lente insulin! Then they had a combo one of 73/30!
Hi Brock I just wanted to publicly thank you for your post. One of the things about constantly moving forward is we sometimes forget to look back. If you can imagine a twelve year old boy looking up at the sky and literally screaming at God to F$%! OFF and take his life shortly after being dianosed, I did that.
As my grade twelve english teacher would say, “God in her infinite wisdom, had other plans”. This is really about having enough self esteem to love and care for ourselves as necessary and of course, the tools and support in order to do so. To truly understand the line between self care, and selfish, and to encourage and empower others as well. This is very real, possible and necessary and the lives of others or ourselves, may depend on it. This is VERY serious business and we have a duty to help others understand that.
These are exciting times for all diabetics because the ways we are able to manage both our sugars and complications are always improving, and your post highlights this beautifuly. We have certainly come a long way and although we have a little further to go, we are going to win. In some ways we already have!!!
Love Always
Anonymous Diabetic.
I had the same issues as well. Hated the Lord for years, but crawled back to him 10 years ago. It is wonderful a lot the things we have today that we did not have before. CGM, man that was a pipe dream when we got it. To be able to keep track of sugar levels on the go. The pump, another good creation. The years on NPH and R used to make me go mad. NPH never peeked at the same times. So our sugars were always on the wild side. Either high or crashing low when not planned for. The fact that we had to pretty much the exact same thing day after day got real boring.
Yeah, the syringes were a great improvement. The old ones were like taking a pencil and sticking into yourself compared to the ones today.
You didn’t start out carb counting, but instead used the goofy exchange system
You used pork insulin
Your pricker looks like a guillotine (I found one of these in my drawer the other day!)
Wow, I still have nightmares seeing that!
And left holes the size of them!
I remember that…the Ames Autolet. Not sure what I did with it, but I got it with my Glucometer II in 1984. I hating testing my bg b/c it always hurt. I never understood why people hated injections more than pricking. OUCH!
Sorry Brock. Does this give you nightmares?
You had to hold your test strip up to the image on the package and figure out if you were closer to 60 or 140. Okay, maybe not that bad, but still.
SEE WHAT YOU STARTED!!! (ha ha well done!) Some great pictures and in some cases, great memories.
Love Always
Anonymous Diabetic
Wow, I have not seen that type of test strip bottle in years!
Yeah Anonymous, there are many of us these days! Think about it, 30 years ago our quality of life was worse! We were thought to live only 20-25 years before died from the complications and now we have people on this site that have lived with it over 60 years! With better gadgets, much better insulin we have a much better quality of life!