I’ve always used the short tip insulin syringes. Recently, I’ve started using the longer ones. Is there a difference in tems of how the body obsorbs insulin when injected with a long v.s short needle?

It is a comfort thing!! The shorter needles need go in only a short way into the skin. Also the guage of the needle has a lot to do with the comfort zone. 31 g needles are almost like hair and go in so smoothly between nerve endings.

Longer needles tend to go into the muscles or blood vessels easier than do the shorter needles.

I absolutely would not change back to the longer needles at all for any reason. And I now want the pens for my instant acting insulin! Much less insulin waste at the end of 28 days from opening the vial!!!

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I’ve always used the short tip insulin syringes. Recently, I’ve started using the longer ones. Is there a difference in tems of how the body obsorbs insulin when injected with a long v.s short needle?

It is a comfort thing!! The shorter needles need go in only a short way into the skin. Also the guage of the needle has a lot to do with the comfort zone. 31 g needles are almost like hair and go in so smoothly between nerve endings.

Longer needles tend to go into the muscles or blood vessels easier than do the shorter needles.

I absolutely would not change back to the longer needles at all for any reason. And I now want the pens for my instant acting insulin! Much less insulin waste at the end of 28 days from opening the vial!!!

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I’ve always used the short tip insulin syringes. Recently, I’ve started using the longer ones. Is there a difference in tems of how the body obsorbs insulin when injected with a long v.s short needle?

It is a comfort thing!! The shorter needles need go in only a short way into the skin. Also the guage of the needle has a lot to do with the comfort zone. 31 g needles are almost like hair and go in so smoothly between nerve endings.

Longer needles tend to go into the muscles or blood vessels easier than do the shorter needles.

I absolutely would not change back to the longer needles at all for any reason. And I now want the pens for my instant acting insulin! Much less insulin waste at the end of 28 days from opening the vial!!!

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It runs in my family, and I’ve already inherited anemia from my grandma, and hypothyroidism, so I’m pretty much waiting on the diabetes. Symptoms I should watch out for?

increased urination, increased liquid intake and thirst, irreducible fatigue, rapid or gradual (but still realy noticable) despite the fact that diabetes will make you have a bigger appetite

if you don’t wear glasses – blurred vision is a sign. but if you wear glasses – increasingly blurry vision or worse vision is a big sign (gradually worsening vision is a sign of type 2)

all of this is for type 1 diabetes

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It runs in my family, and I’ve already inherited anemia from my grandma, and hypothyroidism, so I’m pretty much waiting on the diabetes. Symptoms I should watch out for?

increased urination, increased liquid intake and thirst, irreducible fatigue, rapid or gradual (but still realy noticable) despite the fact that diabetes will make you have a bigger appetite

if you don’t wear glasses – blurred vision is a sign. but if you wear glasses – increasingly blurry vision or worse vision is a big sign (gradually worsening vision is a sign of type 2)

all of this is for type 1 diabetes

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It runs in my family, and I’ve already inherited anemia from my grandma, and hypothyroidism, so I’m pretty much waiting on the diabetes. Symptoms I should watch out for?

increased urination, increased liquid intake and thirst, irreducible fatigue, rapid or gradual (but still realy noticable) despite the fact that diabetes will make you have a bigger appetite

if you don’t wear glasses – blurred vision is a sign. but if you wear glasses – increasingly blurry vision or worse vision is a big sign (gradually worsening vision is a sign of type 2)

all of this is for type 1 diabetes

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I was wondering how often i should get checked for diabetes because both my dad and my grandma have it. I know that i am at risk because it runs on my dads side of the family.
I also get dizzy when I stand up. And I am a teen that does do sports. I am not overweight.
When i do get dizzy i feel like i am about to faint and if i eat something it helps.

Since it runs in your family you should be checking your own glucose levels on a irregular basis. If you should see the numbers starting to rise into unacceptable levels then you should be checked out by your doctor for a definitive test.

Those unacceptable levels would be in the area of above somewhere in the area of more than 110, considerably higher if you had eaten within the last two or so hours but no higher than 180mg/dl, others may argue they should be nor higher than 140mg/dl or 160mg/dl depending on which school of thought you come from as experts are not on the same page when it comes to post meal glucose levels.

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I was wondering how often i should get checked for diabetes because both my dad and my grandma have it. I know that i am at risk because it runs on my dads side of the family.
I also get dizzy when I stand up. And I am a teen that does do sports. I am not overweight.
When i do get dizzy i feel like i am about to faint and if i eat something it helps.

Since it runs in your family you should be checking your own glucose levels on a irregular basis. If you should see the numbers starting to rise into unacceptable levels then you should be checked out by your doctor for a definitive test.

Those unacceptable levels would be in the area of above somewhere in the area of more than 110, considerably higher if you had eaten within the last two or so hours but no higher than 180mg/dl, others may argue they should be nor higher than 140mg/dl or 160mg/dl depending on which school of thought you come from as experts are not on the same page when it comes to post meal glucose levels.

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I was wondering how often i should get checked for diabetes because both my dad and my grandma have it. I know that i am at risk because it runs on my dads side of the family.
I also get dizzy when I stand up. And I am a teen that does do sports. I am not overweight.
When i do get dizzy i feel like i am about to faint and if i eat something it helps.

Since it runs in your family you should be checking your own glucose levels on a irregular basis. If you should see the numbers starting to rise into unacceptable levels then you should be checked out by your doctor for a definitive test.

Those unacceptable levels would be in the area of above somewhere in the area of more than 110, considerably higher if you had eaten within the last two or so hours but no higher than 180mg/dl, others may argue they should be nor higher than 140mg/dl or 160mg/dl depending on which school of thought you come from as experts are not on the same page when it comes to post meal glucose levels.

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Genetic engineering is a rapidly growing practice these days. Specifically, I need to know what the advantages and disadvantages of Insulin producing bacteria compared to the conventional method in which people with insulin defiance receive it.

insulin defiance?

If I assume that’s type 2 diabetes, does that make type 1 insuln delinquent?

The main advantage is that it illiminates cross species reactions and can be produced in greater quantities (and supposedly fewer pigs and cows die).

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