Read an article on type 1 diabetes and weight issues (because that can be a struggle with insulin) and it mentioned symlin. And why the use of it to help lower the needed insulin dose hasn’t quite caught on among type 1 patients. The article mentioned that type 1’s might be reluctant to add yet another shot to their daily regime of shots, pen injections, or pump boluses. It also mentioned that having to re-juggle mealtime insulin dose calculations  might also be an issue.

What it failed to mention is that some type 1s might be put off by the side-effects and thus decide it is not for them. My endo before my current endo tried me on it for a bit. One of the side effects is nausea. Having nausea at every single meal you give a symlin injection before is really not fun. Especially if you are expected to go places and do things that vomiting might really interrupt.

The nausea was really bad for me. Symlin can also cause dizziness. Which I might have had, too, but I also have Meniere’s disease, so if it did make me dizzy, I probably attributed it to the Meniere’s.