{"id":1487,"date":"2008-01-19T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/symlin-came\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T00:53:17","slug":"symlin-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/symlin-came\/","title":{"rendered":"Symlin Came!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">I have NO idea why I decided to check the Medco site this afternoon, as they said they weren&#8217;t sending until January 23, but I did.&#160; Not only did it show it was on it&#8217;s way, but it had a UPS tracking number that said it was delivered.&#160; I called, husband answered, and sure enough it was there, he just tossed the whole thing in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">The pens are interesting.&#160;The 120 pen is set to give two doses, 60 units and 120 units.&#160; It also says you can put it in either the abdomen or the thigh.&#160; I think I like the thigh.&#160; The needle goes in much better &#8212; I do think that stopper dulls the needle, and even though it was a dose after a prime, it didn&#8217;t burn until the very last of the push.&#160; Thus it is MUCH less painful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">I&#8217;m going to use up all my vials (I have around 4) at the house, and keep the pens for traveling about town and at school until I&#8217;m out of vials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">The pen does not take up less space than the vial, but the pen needles are easier to deal with.&#160; I do need to find a disposal method for the needles themselves.&#160; I do have some of the needle holders, so I am going to try to snag more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have NO idea why I decided to check the Medco site this afternoon, as they said they weren&#8217;t sending until January 23, but I did.&#160; Not only did it show it was on it&#8217;s way, but it had a UPS tracking number that said it was delivered.&#160; I called, husband answered, and sure enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}