Comments on: The Truth About Afresa Inhalable Insulin: A Chat with Al Mann

By: dave vanness

dave vanness — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:37:23 +0000

I agree with steveg above of 11/23/09. Fifty years insulin dependant with A1C’s of 5.7 and 5.9 and 2-3 injections daily is my story. I loved Exubera. I used it for two years and it made life ENJOYABLE again. I cursed the Pfizer board when they with it from the market I am psychologically drain and cannot take 4 injections a day. Even if the inhaleable took a few months off of this existance I consider it worth it. WELL WORTH IT. Where can I sign-up for the trials??????????????

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Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:41:11 +0000

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By: Jolly Rancher

Jolly Rancher — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:09:50 +0000

In reply to Matthew…being in a study a little different from real life. If you had participated in the control arm, you would have been subject to the same rigors. This was explained to you before volunteering for the study. Al Mann has stated several times that the first dose may not be enough for a large meal and that a second dose may be required; however, he did not say how blister packaging could accomplish this. I assume a person would buy more doses than one per meal, just the way you buy more insulin now in order to compensate for varied glucose levels.
JR

By: Dennis Hodges

Dennis Hodges — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:39:44 +0000

I have been taking insulin shots for 62 years, I tried the pump for a short amount of time and I use Exubera for one year. I am a true believer in inhaled insulin it is the wave of the future. The reason Exubera didn’t catch on was because of poor advertising and marketing.

When insulin was first put on the market it was not a cure for diabetes. Insulin was taken from cattle and hogs at that time and did not work the same as human insulin did. Finally they developed the humlin version of insulin which was a God send. On the beef insulin my blood sugars would drop so fast that I had no idea what was going on, now with the humlin insulin I am still able to think straight at a much lower glucose level which adds very much to a person’s safety factor in every aspect of their lives.

I can not wait for MannKind to get an approval for their new Afresa Inhale-able insulin. I will be the first one in line to try it.

I totally agree with Begley if you haven’t tried it then don’t knock it.

By: Reen

Reen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:27:14 +0000

Begley- I completely agree with you.
I’m 34 yrs old, was diagnosed at 7. I have been living with type 1 for many years. I was luck enough to be on Exubera for 2 years. I just ran out off supply in January and have gone back on 5 injections a day. It stinks. I contact Mannkind regularly to see if FDA approval has come yet. Exunera worked fantastically for me and I expect the same from Afresa, once it finally hits the market. For those of you who don’t take injections or 5 a day, you have no right to provid einput. At least Afresa give us an option..to live a normal life without stabbing ourselves so many times!

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By: Begley

Begley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:12:14 +0000

what i dont understand is why diabetics themselves are skeptical of something that could possibly reduce the amount of injections they have to do per day.as a young woman and a diabetic i personally would prefer not to have bruises and lumps all over my body and not to have a factor directly affecting my weight. also the prospect of an inhaler makes the process of taking insulin more bearable for those who do not take it as they cannot put up with the inconvenience of having injections every time they just want to have the simple pleasure of having something to eat.i also find that diabetics get little sympathy when expressing this feeling.i get frequently ill which affects my education and would prefer to have an option other than injections that is available quicker than ten years,when something else will be available but bodies will have been damaged both externally and internally beyond repair. i beleive that people who arent diabetic should stop trying to influence decisions as they do not go through what is in fact a very seriousness illness. Iam sure alot of younger diabetics would agree.

By: Scott K. Johnson

Scott K. Johnson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:39:45 +0000

I totally don’t understand how I (as a type 1) would not have to count carbs anymore. How is that possible?

By: Felix Kasza

Felix Kasza — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:59:49 +0000

One major aspect that I have not seen mentioned is that type-2 diabetics usually have a functioning glucagon system, affording them fairly solid protection from hypoglycaemia. Type-1s? Not so much, after a few years of D. So if you are a type 1 diabetic, you may want to take all of this “no carb-counting with Afresa” stuff with a grain of salt.