Do you have a plan if your pump fails? Diabetes expert Nalani Haviland Hunsaker, who also lives with type 1, shares tips on what to put in your backup supply kit, and she offers guidelines on how to use different types of long-acting and rapid-acting insulins until your pump is back up and running.
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Inhaled insulin has been around for years, but in many ways it still feels like the new kid on the block. Dr. Edelman and Dr. Pettus answer the most common questions about Afrezza, and they offer tips on when and how to use it.
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Inhaled insulin Afrezza is a great option for a lot of people living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes because it doesn’t involve shots and has a rapid on-rapid off effect. The makers of Afrezza just announced a direct purchase program to help people get it for as little as $4 a day.
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Drs. Jeremy Pettus and Schafer Boeder led our Type 1 Spotlight Series in San Diego recently, and they covered trending topics in type 1 from new oral meds to groundbreaking glucagon spray.
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With several new fast-acting insulins on the market, is it still necessary to pre-bolus before meals? How fast-acting are they really? Endocrinologist and type 1 Dr. Jeremy Pettus compares, contrasts, and gives his vote.
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We all have them…mistakes we’ve made that we don’t even want to share with our own mother. Dr. Jeremy Pettus puts it all out there and gets real about what recently happened when he took the right dose of the wrong insulin.
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