Now on NPH and need "cooling" container source

"Ron G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi---

After years of medicines (prandin plus Metformin)----

I went a couple years ago to Metformin, Avandia and
Glyburide.

I had to go down from 2000 mg Metformin a couple years
ago, as the strong nausea would last 24 hrs each time.
So they let me go down to 1000
mg. I do 500 mg in the morning and 500 mg in the evening.

Now I'm on 8 mg Avandia and 1000 mg Metformin and 15
mg Glyburide plus

4

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units of Novolog NPH at night to help control liver
dumps giving

me

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high AM readings.

I'm trying to find that travel container that uses
(water?) to keep

the

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insulin cool while gone for days from home.

Any help on this is appreciated.

I know the level of NPH is very low, but they will watch
my readings and adjust my Insulin upward as my Bg readings
indicate.

Tonight I gave myself my first shot---in the left
fatty stomach wall. Odd, but shortly after that, I had
an odd, kinda metallic or medicinal

taste

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in my mouth.

I also give myself monthly B-12 shots, trained by the Dr's
on how to

inject.

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Each shot is 1000 micro whatever, so it is a larger 29
gauge needle and larger syringe and larger liquid volume.
Hurts sometimes.

But the small 31 gauge needle for the NPH is almost no
sensation at all, thank goodness. A really easy shot.

I took the NPH out of the fridge, rolled the bottle, and
filled the

syringe

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to 4 units.

Later I wondered if I should have let the insulin warm up
a bit first---- Any ideas on that?

Somehow, even though I give myself monthly B-12 shots in
the arm, the

first

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Insulin shot is bothering me, mentally. It's not like B-12
to keep my

energy

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up. It's insulin, for Diabetes type 11.

I don't think it will be a big mental hurdle, but I am
surprised that this bothers me. Like anything else in
life, I try to face it straight on, and

go

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thru it, and I will on this.

But I am a bit surprised at my mental stress on the
insulin. Unlike the B-12, I think it is the "disease"
concept, and I feel it is making inroads into me, and the
insulin represents another step in the disease, and it is

a

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degenerative step. I think that's the analysis of this
odd, <sigh> type feeling.

Any thoughts on this is appreciated. I am surprised at my
<sigh> and

"down"

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type reaction. I feel like I "used to" be young and
strong, and things are changing.

I wanted age 65 to be a bit brighter.

Well, enough self pity, if I want to feel self pity, any
walk down a hospital corridor will snap me out of it. I'm
at the Hospital fairly

often,

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unfortunately. But the good side of it, hospitals are
where we do get

help.

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Sorry for the ramblings--- I think I am just stressed with
this latest change in life. There have

been

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very many changes, and I will get through this one, just
like I got

through

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the previous ones.

Best to all----------- Ron Injected for the first time an
hour ago :-)

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Just think you may get better control with the insulin. I
wish I had been put on insulin to start with. I take UL and
R 4 shots+ a day. Good Luck Bobby