INSULIN LISPRO vs Insulin NPH

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

Hi! I work as a refill authorization pharmacist in a doctor's office. I receive refill requests and clarifications from pharmacies and send new prescriptions, agree with what you said and bring it up as an issue, etc etc. I've started to get some clarification requests that are particularly. . . St

So, without Googling this, who can tell us what NPH (re:insulin…not Neil Patrick Harris!) stands for? Someone quizzed a group of RPh’s years ago, & I was the only one who remembered it from rx school. Feel free to add your own ones, too!

I've been inpatient since Monday, and just received one of my discharge scripts...ummm there are many errors on It. Lord help me. NPH insulin 2 separate orders, one for am and 1 for hs, both the same amount, but dispense 3ml VIAL, with 2 refills each, sooo I guess that takes us up to 9ml, close en