Yes folks we have a new insulin and the best best news is that it is priced affordable – R590 SEP for a long acting insulin that almost guarantees NO hypos!!!
What great great news !!!
I can barely contain my excitement as I scribble out scripts for gazillions of patients for whom this means a huge leap up in quality of life living with type 1 diabetes or diabetes that requires insulin injection.
What is it? Toujeo – or insulin glargine U300 – lots to figure out. In a nutshell it is the same as lantus/optisulin BUT squashed smaller. What does that mean?
Science is “fucking” wonderful – sorry I had to – I LOVE !!! science. When you make a molecule smaller you decrease the surface area and thus slow the absorption rate right down. So now you have a more concentrated molecule (U300 vs U100) that is “dissolving” or releasing much more slowly and predictably and yes you guessed it all you insulin boffins out there – no stacking of insulin, which means no HYPOS !!
Simple yet brilliant, don’t you think – or am I just a proper nerd.
Once daily dosing – truly once daily.
No hypos, predictable.
Need I say more
Toujeo or not to je o ??
😉
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