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Experience Report: Humaninsulin Digestibility
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I got ill with diabetes 41 years ago, when I was a child. I was firstly put on cattle insulin and then later on pig insulin. Human insulin had been brought to the market in the beginning of the 80s. Pharmindustry followed strange strategies that had been operating in the market. As one got to know that human insulin had side effects on decreased perception of hypoglycaemias and disturbance in central nervous system, it was legally specified that the switch from animal to human insulin must be followed by medical reasons.
The insulin producers spread injection pens and organized lectures for patients in order to provide a good market for human insulin. One big German Pharm Company offered me 60 DM if I could persuade a person; who was suffering, to use the human insulin! Since the end of the 80s I have known that I can digest the human insulin. Everything, from the type of package and ampulla’s stick-on label to the admixture “HM,” in the human insulin and animal insulin of the firm Novo Nordisk was very identical. This way the product had been brought to the drugstores. I am still using human insulin despite the fact that I know I will have disturbance in my central nervous system. Not long ago it was diagnosed that human insulin can provoke allergy for anything possible.
I anxiously kept my eye on how gentechnological insulin could displace the natural animal insulin. I am in touch with Forum Insulin Switzerland and IDDT International, Patients’ Union in Switzerland and England. They are coping for preservation of animal insulin. When the stick-on labels on insulin packages from 2002 made clear that the production of the animal insulin had appeared on the market again from December 2001, I received a petition from the Federal Diet (Bundestag), which made sure the animal insulin availability for me. But it was human insulin again and it was one more time of their proof that I can get on well with it.
I could not stop vomiting because of food poisoning. The metabolism process was derailed, and my body became exhausted. The insulin I used did not reduce the sugar in my blood any more; they increased the dosage till 600mg and lost my consciousness. A friend of mine gave animal insulin to the physician and human insulin for the emergency case warning him about my ability of its perception. When I was in the hospital, no one seemed to care what insulin I was given. They just took the one, which was on the night table. They injected Velasulin HM and in a short time I was taken to the emergency room as I lost the ability to breath and my metabolism in my brain was disturbed. This kind of problems, metabolism disturbance and that terrible trauma that happened exactly to me, which I was fearing the whole time, had fatal consequences. After I left hospital and got a little bit better, I became Psychosis, which needed at least one year of medical treatment. During all this time anti-bodies against human insulin were invented. Only the firm Berlin Chemi in Germany makes the animal insulin available to the patients and the producer has ordered the certification validity. Caninsulin is available now for dogs that suffer form diabetes. The dogs can get on well with the human insulin, that’s is why only such minorities will use it.
At least 10% of the all diabetics suffered from human insulin. Despite that fact there is still no free choice for people which insulin to use. The doctors today have no idea about animal insulin and this is one of the reasons why we can’t find it in the drugstores. The patient must help himself on his own and moreover must be good informed what is good and what is bad. I managed to get the petition from the EU commission. It is not possible to believe that the diabetics in Germany are discriminated with the use of insulin, where the other countries we border on can use any kind of it.
I managed to get help form the specialist and they share my point of view. The animal insulin must be available on the market again.
hancl@gmx.net
Translated by: Elmira Khusnutdinova |
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