Just a bit of news: Apidra, a rapid-acting insulin used before meals like Humalog and Novolog has just won FDA approval to be packaged in a prefilled disposable pen, to be called ” SoloSTAR®.” They’ll be available in pharmacies sometime this year.
Apidra and Lantus are both Sanofi-Aventis products. If you use the Lantus pen SoloSTAR®, (Lantus being long-acting insulin most patients use once or twice a day to cover the fasting state), the two pens will come in different colors to help tell them apart. And trust me, there are endless accounts of patients mixing up their rapid and long-acting insulins because the pens or vials look so much the same. However, I’ll have to reserve judgment as what I saw didn’t look that far afield from the Lantus pen: a grey blue vs. a blue grey? What’s so hard about making it in green or orange?
I’m an Apidra user after years of using Humalog. For me, Apidra works faster than Humalog which means I need to use less and its quicker action gives you the advantage of injecting during and sometimes after a meal depending on what you’re eating. This takes a lot of the guesswork out making my doses a wee bit more accurate.
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how will it work with medacare advantage donut hole
I don’t know how it works with the Medicare Advantage donut hole, I do know I was told there would be such a whole with Medicare