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One thing I've learned from my Type 1 wife is to never get excited about this sort of stuff. Her father was a Lilly executive and they tried to get her to use t
by codva 13y ago
One thing I've learned from my Type 1 wife is to never get excited about this sort of stuff. Her father was a Lilly executive and they tried to get her to use the insulin nose spray back in the 80s. She passed, and a few years later it was pulled from the market as it was destroying the user's nasal passages.
She was also a beta tester for a blood meter that didn't need disposable test strips. It got pulled by the FDA.
I always root for advances in diabetes management, or dream of dreams, a cure. But I'm not expecting it.
- dkirkman 13y agoLiving with a type 1 for a number of years has given me a similar view. On the other hand, very real (and often hyped) advances really do happen. When pumps first came out, they were almost magic, ditto with continuous glucose monitoring.
- frabcus 13y agoMy dad died in the mid-1980s from type 1 diabetes, when I was a child. Literally, because it was hard to take blood samples to monitor glucose and inject the right amount of insulin. I'm told that with modern equipment (am guessing the continuous glucose monitoring you mention) he would almost certainly have survived. So yes, not all advances like this end up working. But overall, within our short lifetimes, the best ones are creating substantial improvements.