Today I am fed up, not of diabetes itself, (which also and much), but of the tremendous business that is done with this disease.The trigger has been that I have been reading a lot these days on a certain inhaled things ... Now I tell you.
There are many things already:
- That there is a total cure testing in humans and it costs horrors to achieve financing because the medication is as common as a vaccine against tuberculosis: Link
It is not interesting to cure but chronify, so fashion is to invest in intelligent insulin ( Link and encapsulated beta cells ( Link -os/P1) that is very good and are good solutions that would change our lives, but we will continue to be diabetic with an immune system that has flight crazy and thatAt any time it can cause us another autoimmune disease, such as thyroid or others, much worse.
- In my Madrid hospital insulin bomb to all God, but from the continuous measurement that for me it is much more necessary to choose, they do not want to hear about financing a miserable sensor.
The last response that they gave me "only financing has been achieved to a person who has been blind from the bad control he carried" ...
A box of strips costs the SS about € 20 euros by throwing very low.I need 5 boxes per month if I don't use Dexcom.20x5x12 = € 1200 per year, just my annual expense in Dexcom sensors.
An insulin bomb person costs the State € 2832, (Source: Link spend in Dexcom about 1600 euros annually between sensors and transmitter, half.And I pay everything in my pocket.I ruin myself to pay for something I need to live, I "fine" for being a chronic patient with an incurable disease that is not interested in healing.
- We keep clicking thousands of times, when in the US. There are people who no longer do it, only three once a day.
INHALADADA INHALADA AFREZZZA: Link
It is not approved in Europe nor seems to have hurried.Meanwhile, UU. On Twitter who has changed their lives, for example: Link Link Link
Summarizing a lot, users on Twitter report:
> AFREZZA has a duration of just over an hour.This for me is the Holy Grail, I am up to the noses of the 3 hours of Humalog, it is what burns myself most of my current treatment.
With Afrrezza you are in 200, you take your corresponding inhalations and at the time you are in 100. With the insulins we have here before being well and we have to eat again.It is a shame.
> Due to the above, users report very significant descents in glycosylated hemo, with more than one point.
> Less hypoglycemia are reported.
> Of the comfort in itself of using it, better not to mention because it is to cry.What a change of life.
The EMA (European Medicines Agency) takes a minimum of almost a year to approve a new drug.
Here the status of its approval in UK, although you cannot see whole if you are not a doctor there: Link
Then between what arrives here, the SS gives to cover it ... We die of old.
As a summary, I am very burning that it is not enough that it is not interesting to investigate, the advances that are few and it costs that they reach us, and to top it off, decent advances that we have I have to pay them from my pocket.
This does not move enough, life goes at full speed, and there is stillMany days that I wake up thinking that the debut has been a dream, until I played the Dexcom on my back.
The feeling of impotence is indescribable.