Yeah that's the old school NPH variety. While you can certainly manage with it, you'll not manage well.

Modern diabetes management includes either pumping or multiple daily injections (MDI). With MDI, you use a long acting insulin as a basal, or background, insulin. And then you'll use a rapid insulin to bolus for meals and to make corrections for unexpected spikes.

The pump is similar to MDI but you only use rapid insulin and the pump delivers a steady basal stream throughout the day, and you still bolus at meals and for unexpected spikes.

These two things allow diabetics to eat whatever they want.

We did the old school way for the first few weeks because that's the only way the doctors in Vietnam knew how to do it. It really sucked numbers wise.

It's not. I'm not diabetic, but there's some interesting research on intranasal insulin and cognition, so I thought I might try it out. At my local east coast Walmart, I bought on March 13th 2016 a 10ml vial of Novolin R insulin for $24.88. (No prescription required.)

> intranasal insulin and cognition

Please elaborate...

"Effect of intranasal insulin on cognitive function: a systematic review", Shemesh et al 2012 http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/jc.2011-1802 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Assaf_Rudich/publicatio...