INSULIN HUMAN vs INSULIN LISPRO

Hi! Pharmacist here I am pharmacist in Thailand Have story to tell Some patients forget their doses. Some skip their meds. And then there’s THIS GUY—who decided to turn his diabetes treatment into a f*cking lucky draw. Let me introduce you to the human version of a pharmacy horror story. I was worki

I was a P3 up until last December of last year. I took a leave for mental health and worked at an urgent care. I was in the hospital several times in the psych unit and was really inspired by the nurses who treated me like a human being and switching to nursing has saved my life through all the suic

Veterinary pharmacy tech here. I've worked in a compounding pharmacy for a few years but am currently at an emergency/specialty hospital for dogs and cats only. I am interested in having some input from those of you not involved in vet med, mostly because it seems human medicine has a lot more cont

I'm presenting proposed guidelines for Afrezza at our DUR Board tomorrow. At some point, I'm sure I'll need to mention Exubera, the flop inhaled insulin from 2006-2007. Does anyone remember how it's pronounced? I'm thinking either "ex-OO-burr-a" or "ex-oo-BEAR-a"?

I'm doing a presentation over Afrezza - an inhaled insulin. I know this is not a popular drug but I just wanted to gather information about the popularity of Afrezza. Has anyone ever seen this drug being dispensed at their pharmacy? A few pharmacists that I spoke to said they never dispensed this dr

Do you guys see this taking off and replacing injectable insulin as the dominant form for insulin delivery?

Can someone explain why insulin adsorbed to fumaryl diketopiperazine is significant? Exubera was normal insulin that was just breathed in correct?

I see articles recently shared talking about people not taking their insulin or reducing it due to costs. There is help, here are the programs I use the most, please share with your patients. [Admelog (similar to Humalog) $99/month for up to 10 vials or 5 packs of pens, any other sanofi insulins (l

Basically title. I’m a clinical pharmacist at a hospital. We are trying to start a patient on standard sliding scale insulin lispro, but one of their allergies is listed as cat dander and the lispro is flagging as allergy cross reactivity. I cannot find ANYTHING online to support this. Does anyone

Know little to nothing about it, but one MD says he’s done it before. What exactly is the point? Package insert for lispro says when given intravenously, the clearance rate is similar to insulin regular.

Curious how other institutions handle insulin on the floor. Currently we let RN’s draw up regular and lispro using pt specific 3mL vials pulled from Omni cell, we draw up glargine in our IV room, and all the other flavors we dispense a pt specific vial from central and RN draws up on the floor. Wel

I've heard from multiple patients who switched from Humalog to Admelog that now their sugars are all over the place. people who have been on the therapy long term and have well controlled numbers that report once they switched to admelog they had to increase their dose. 2 of these patients switched

Hey guys I’m P4 student and I question regarding expiry dates. I had situation during my hospital rotation I was preparing an admelog prescription and when assigning the expiration date I wrote down April 28. Since the vial only last 28 days at room temperature. My preceptor told me the expirati