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    Insulin on a Plane

    Oct 11, 2019 2 minutes
    BY GARY SCHEINER, MS, CDE

    Q It seems like my lispro mealtime insulin takes forever to work. Is there anything faster?

    The reason it seems to take so long is because it does. “Rapid” insulins such as lispro, aspart and glulisine (brand names Humalog, NovoLog/NovoRapid and Apidra) work much more slowly than insulin produced by the pancreas. Rapid

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