Britain?s Biggest Insulin User

[Northerner]

A man who used to be Britain?s highest individual user of insulin will tell delegates at a study day in Liverpool today (17th February 2012) how specialist weight loss surgery transformed his life.

Michael Parker, 49, who weighed 34 stone and was plagued by ill-health, is among 200 people nationwide who have all undergone a complex weight loss procedure known as the duodenal switch.

Now some 40 duodenal switch patients are coming together for the first time at an event organised today by leading weight loss surgery information charity WLSinfo to share their experiences.

http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=70234

600 units a day 😱 That's nearly a pint, isn't it?

 

[gail1]

600 units a DAY still at least the op has worked for him, good luck to him i say

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Don't think he hold the title as biggest insulin user as there is a user on another forum who uses 1500 units a day, He uses a pump. So that's 1 1/2 vials a day 😱

 

[Northerner]

Crikey! Is it an industrial pump? 😱

 

[ypauly]

Crikey! Is it an industrial pump? 😱

I just actually a really laughed out loud Good job I wasn't drinking lol

 

[Copepod]

600 units at 100 units per ml = 6ml.

Still a lot of insulin, and difficult to find enough sites, I'd have thought.

Hope gastric ops helps others, too - if it's the right thing for each person.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

With that amount of insulin I suspect it's a God send being able to use U500 for some people