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Post by applogic on Oct 9, 2017 22:15:06 GMT -5
The other thing.. each box of Afrezza is like a box of velveeta. When you fill a 3mo express script, you lose the crisper or half a shelf. The packaging could be more compact.
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Post by ghochr on Oct 9, 2017 23:05:51 GMT -5
Insulin works if your sugars are in 200’s even if it’s not due to meal cos it still is blood glucose. The dawn effect where your liver dumps glucose to get you started for the day..
You can try Afrezza and c what happens..
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Post by brotherm1 on Oct 10, 2017 0:08:42 GMT -5
I still have 4 boxes I think. Originally script was 2x4, 1x8 and the 4's were useless. As such, I learned to save it to double up and use it only when i had to and that habit continues to this day. If i had originally received larger doses, I probably would have used it more but fast forward a year and I've skipped 2 refills even though my insurance covers it since i have only used 2 out 6 boxes. In the meantime I dropped my A1C to 5.5 for 3 months using keto alone which got me too comfortable and now my mornings are in the 200's again although this time i'm not sure what has change diet wise. Since afrezza is meal time, it doesn't do me much good for overnight levels which i am finding is the biggest issue. If blood sugar is 120 in the morning it's 100 by night but if it's 270 in the morning it's 190 by bedtime so Afrezza isn't of much use to me until the numbers drop - then i can use it for the 2 or 3 times during the month I fall off keto. At the start my endo never received samples and I got the left over sample packs (4's only). Mannkind dropped the ball there. It took a 2 hour drive to get a doctor to prescribe afrezza and my current doc thinks I'm doing fine without it although she let me keep the script since I was using it sparingly. I *really* wanted Afrezza to succeed - I suffered through this and went all in at 100k shares in July of 2014 and held it up until the other day - converting it to ROTH and paying the taxes along the way. For T1's with a monitor perhaps this is great but for T2's, the weekly insulins now seem to be the way to go. My sibling uses that and her numbers are better and she's eating fries while I'm living on lettuce and avocados so objectively, that looks like the more convenient option. If Mannkind's going to recover, they'll need juvenile studies completed, bring the epipen alternative to market and a cash infusion from RLS but I don't know if they'll survive that long so I'll take my 7 cents on the dollar. applogic - I read through your history of your proboard posts and saw you bought 100,000 shares at $10.80 a couple of years ago. Very sorry to see you’ve lost over $950,000 of it by selling. I do not at all share your beliefs on what you say MNKD must to do survive but I certainly hope all works out financially well for you, especially since you were close to retirement. It does though sound like by exercising and eating healthy that you have your priorities right as health is most important in my book. Wish you all the best.
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Post by agedhippie on Oct 10, 2017 8:19:10 GMT -5
In the meantime I dropped my A1C to 5.5 for 3 months using keto alone which got me too comfortable and now my mornings are in the 200's again although this time i'm not sure what has change diet wise. Since afrezza is meal time, it doesn't do me much good for overnight levels which i am finding is the biggest issue. If blood sugar is 120 in the morning it's 100 by night but if it's 270 in the morning it's 190 by bedtime so Afrezza isn't of much use to me until the numbers drop - then i can use it for the 2 or 3 times during the month I fall off keto. Assuming your basal isn't messed up then the only way I have found to do it reliably is to use a pump for basal. There are other tricks people talk about (10g snack just before bed, using NPH and Levemir , small bolus around 3am!) It can be helpful to read some of the Type 2 boards because this is a big problem for them, that's were I got most of my ideas but the pump was the only reliable solution.
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Post by boytroy88 on Oct 10, 2017 9:32:00 GMT -5
I still have 4 boxes I think. Originally script was 2x4, 1x8 and the 4's were useless. As such, I learned to save it to double up and use it only when i had to and that habit continues to this day. If i had originally received larger doses, I probably would have used it more but fast forward a year and I've skipped 2 refills even though my insurance covers it since i have only used 2 out 6 boxes. In the meantime I dropped my A1C to 5.5 for 3 months using keto alone which got me too comfortable and now my mornings are in the 200's again although this time i'm not sure what has change diet wise. Since afrezza is meal time, it doesn't do me much good for overnight levels which i am finding is the biggest issue. If blood sugar is 120 in the morning it's 100 by night but if it's 270 in the morning it's 190 by bedtime so Afrezza isn't of much use to me until the numbers drop - then i can use it for the 2 or 3 times during the month I fall off keto. At the start my endo never received samples and I got the left over sample packs (4's only). Mannkind dropped the ball there. It took a 2 hour drive to get a doctor to prescribe afrezza and my current doc thinks I'm doing fine without it although she let me keep the script since I was using it sparingly. I *really* wanted Afrezza to succeed - I suffered through this and went all in at 100k shares in July of 2014 and held it up until the other day - converting it to ROTH and paying the taxes along the way. For T1's with a monitor perhaps this is great but for T2's, the weekly insulins now seem to be the way to go. My sibling uses that and her numbers are better and she's eating fries while I'm living on lettuce and avocados so objectively, that looks like the more convenient option. If Mannkind's going to recover, they'll need juvenile studies completed, bring the epipen alternative to market and a cash infusion from RLS but I don't know if they'll survive that long so I'll take my 7 cents on the dollar. applogic - I read through your history of your proboard posts and saw you bought 100,000 shares at $10.80 a couple of years ago. Very sorry to see you’ve lost over $950,000 of it by selling. I do not at all share your beliefs on what you say MNKD must to do survive but I certainly hope all works out financially well for you, especially since you were close to retirement. It does though sound like by exercising and eating healthy that you have your priorities right as health is most important in my book. Wish you all the best. He convered it Roth so not that bad...might've been a good move since now all gains are tax free..
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Post by mnholdem on Oct 10, 2017 10:22:37 GMT -5
Note: The withdrawal of gains from a Roth account only become tax free after the account has been active for 5 years. In addition, with a Roth, you are not forced to withdraw a percentage of your retirement account every year after a certain age, which the government requires with a conventional IRA.
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Post by liane on Oct 10, 2017 10:25:38 GMT -5
Almost all of my MNKD is in my Roth
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Post by mnholdem on Oct 10, 2017 10:55:14 GMT -5
...which means more wine in the cellar after you retire. Maybe you should consider building a sauna close to the wine cellar.
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Post by n8 on Oct 10, 2017 11:00:18 GMT -5
What if you have 30 yrs to retire, then what?
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Post by peppy on Oct 10, 2017 11:02:59 GMT -5
What if you have 30 yrs to retire, then what? Do a little dance, make a little love....
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Post by n8 on Oct 10, 2017 11:07:38 GMT -5
HAHAHAHAHAHA.......Get Down tonight.....Right on
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Post by mango on Oct 10, 2017 11:08:37 GMT -5
What if you have 30 yrs to retire, then what? Peppy's right. Listen to this song. Enjoy the day.
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Post by n8 on Oct 10, 2017 14:52:59 GMT -5
What if you have 30 yrs to retire, then what? Peppy's right. Listen to this song. Enjoy the day. Excellent...
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Post by mytakeonit on Oct 10, 2017 15:20:32 GMT -5
How do you convert that much stock to a ROTH ... isn't the limits on a catch up account for over 50 yrs old $6,500 per year?
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Post by liane on Oct 10, 2017 15:32:10 GMT -5
You can convert any amount from an IRA to a Roth, but you do have to pay the tax in the year converted. There's other rules too for partial conversions. Since I make too much to directly contribute to a Roth, I must first put it in my SIMPLE IRA. I just make it a habit of converting my entire contribution to the Roth every year (so my MNKD gains will never be taxed).
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