{"id":2259,"date":"2006-01-21T00:51:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T00:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/things-ive-lear\/"},"modified":"2006-01-21T00:51:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T00:51:56","slug":"things-ive-lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/things-ive-lear\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve learned about Symlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not quite as temperature sensitive as they claim &#8212; I think that may be true of insulin too, as Medco treats both fairly cavalierly and they are sure careful with depo.<\/p>\n<p>If you do much more than 4 symlin injections in a day, you may have gastrointenstinal distress.  When I asked my doctor about it (who has had years of Symlin experience), he said, &#8220;yet&#8217;.  I really think that is what caused nausa at Christmas and caused diarrah one weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Symlin does work well for me for turning off the hungry, even some of my emotional hungrys.  However, if I use it too late or too much, I am going to be sick to my stomach in one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t work well on grazing food.  It will work on the initial food, but additional food need more insulin.  <\/p>\n<p>It would be better if I didn&#8217;t have eating issues and could do better at controlling carbs.  Unfortunately that isn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not quite as temperature sensitive as they claim &#8212; I think that may be true of insulin too, as Medco treats both fairly cavalierly and they are sure careful with depo. If you do much more than 4 symlin injections in a day, you may have gastrointenstinal distress. When I asked my doctor about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","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=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}