I understand that you are trying to cut costs with your new formulary, but I think you are under the impression that doctors pick medications purely because they are new, different, like the advertising or the drug rep.\n<\/p>\n
Nothing could be further than the truth.\n<\/p>\n
I’m on Novolog. I’ve tried Apidra. I was on Humalog for three years. First insulin I tried. I never mentioned the itching sensation when I injected because I didn’t realize it was abnormal.\n<\/p>\n
Then they put me on an insulin pump because I was having real problems controlling my blood sugar. While I have really good control with the pump, I can’t help but wonder if the insulin allergy is part of the original control issues, but I digress.\n<\/p>\n
We spent three months switching adhesives, and doing all kinds of gyrations trying to figure out why I was having allergic reactions to my insulin sites. It would start out mild, and would get progressively worse as the time went on with that site.\n<\/p>\n
Doctor handed me a vial of Novolog and had me change out everything. Itching installing went away. I have even injected Symlin with that slight stinging sensation (yeah, made by Lilly and bet it’s that same ingredient). Probably get it with some other injectable medications too.\n<\/p>\n
I have issues with other items that I have injected \u2013 Dexcom sensors for example.\n<\/p>\n
However, you can’t pay me enough money to put another Lily product in a needle and inject it.\n<\/p>\n
I don’t see Lilly fixing the problem \u2013 I’m in that 1% population.\n<\/p>\n
But people \u2013 that’s why there are other formulas. Thankfully there are other formulas.\n<\/p>\n
@Expressscripts quit playing with my medications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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