#Insulin

Jens Nelson

jens_nelson

Your daily reminder that the American healthcare/insurance industry is flawed and broken. Insulin costs alone should be all one needs to see this fact. I know people who go to

Lucas T

QuaxPod

Insulin Resistance is a big topic todayThought I would post things I've learned:•Lowering the amount of insulin secretion by eating low carb does not necessarily impact insulin resistance, which is

HELLO.CANNOT

Loki_bandana

let me just get a few things straight in managing DKA1. Hypovolemic shock kills patient first2. Then K derrangement3. only then acidosis Fluid resus is key. a lot of people

neal rice

flakealso

THIS is a photo of $300 worth of insulin, the type i use. this is 10mL of insulin, which lasts me about ~10ish days THIS is (still) a photo of

Laura Marston

Kidfears99

Can they also drop “nonprofit donations” to groups like @BeyondType1 who lie to the public about representing patients while only representing Phrma’s interests?Rebates aren’t the problem. Insulin manufacturers’ list prices

Ted ⚡️ Naiman

tednaiman

Even if I did believe in the carbohydrate-insulin model, and I don’t, the problem is that fat, or more specifically free fatty acids, also raise insulin acutely. This is the

jamie

space_leninist

Once I went onto r/capitalism with a throwaway account and said my great uncle died in the Soviet Union because he was not given the medications he needed to survive.

Margarita

margaritaevna95

PCOS can be treated with diet alone. It is a disorder of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance occurs when blood sugar levels consistently remain elevated.Treating with birth control is not only

MAD (Mutual Aid Diabetes)

MutualAidBetes

The cost of living through the last 10 months for insulin-dependent diabetics is around $8,500 (list price) for nothing but rapid-acting analogue insulin. Up to 12 million Americans may have

alex azar hate account

insulinth0t

Here’s a thread of why our health insurance here is trash:I’m 23, married and still on my parents health insurance. They pay BCBS about $3,000/mo. Both my parents are CPAs.

Carrie Diulus, M.D., FAAOS

cadiulus

#DOC Heads up about the COVID vaccine. First I am SUPER grateful to have been vaccinated if this is any indication what my experience w/ COVID would have been. Also

Luke Reynolds

lukereynolds

Miss me with this shit. If phrma wants to play savior their net profit should be $0. If the chart is to be believed they make $1,620/year in *NET PROFIT*

kels

505KELSEY

What is diabetes? - a thread TYPE 1: type 1 diabetes, also known as childhood or juvenile diabetes happens when not enough insulin is being made in the pancreas. Insulin

Laura Marston

Kidfears99

Let’s discuss how I’m “privileged” enough to have health insurance and what I’ve sacrificed to get here. At 18, I wanted to go into IT. But in the 1990s, it

Nick Krontiris

nick_krontiris

"Glucose and insulin stimulate DNL in insulin-sensitive subjects while failing to stimulate incremental DNL in insulin-resistant subjects; fructose stimulated DNL equally in insulin-sensitive and insulin-resistant subjects" Hepati

Dr Neil

theyakman

Now this all looks a bit scary, doesn’t it? Maybe you’re thinking this was a particularly bad #t1d day for T?Now what I want to share with you is that

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