Actos-ing Up

I "saw" a television commercial for the first time this week. The subject of the commercial was Actos, a Takeda Pharmaceuticals drug used to control blood sugar in Type 2 Diabetics.
The ad was for a lawyer’s class action lawsuit for people who developed bladder cancer after using Actos. This is not the first class action lawsuit ad for alternative insulin users. It seems to me there’s a new one every year, a rate that seems to match the availability of new alternative insulins.
You want to be part of a class action suit? Easy enough. Become a Type 2 Diabetic and take whatever new insulin your doctor prescribes. Don’t ask how new the drug is and how extensive testing might have or might not have been. Certainly do not ask your doctor how many prescriptions he must write before he gets that gold trip to Bermuda.
Your doctor will tout all the good effects of this or any other new insulin. Most and sometimes all of his information comes from the pharmaceutical company that owns the patent on the drug.
The only one likely to profit from diabetic patients taking new drugs is the pharmaceutical company pushing the drug.
The patient is the guinea pig. The pharmaceutical companies are betting on medicare patients being too ignorant to know that they are the lab rats. The pharmaceutical companies get money while the patients get heart attacks or one form of cancer or another from each new blood sugar medication pimped out.
I am a Type 1 Diabetic. I use the old Humulin insulin. I switched to humulin or "Humulog" only when Eli Lilly and Company stopped making old style insulin made from port and beef.
I understand that too many people are so afraid of needles that they will try anything rather than go on a standard insulin form. They need to get over it. Diabetic syringes are so tiny that the injection cannot even be felt most of the time. Chances are, if you developed Type 2 Diabetes, you have a lot of excess flab that can be taking needles without any sensation of pain.
Every case is different and not all Type 2’s need full insulin. Guided by research sponsored by the pharmaceuticals, the medical industry has been changing the definition of "diabetic" and "pre-diabetic" just to increase their customer base.
You can go blindly along with what the tools in the corrupted medical industry tell you, or you can be proactive in your own health and insist on older, effective medications that your doctor actually has some practical experience with among his patients. The older medications are also cheaper because they are not being sold at development-recovering profits or sustaining the advertising industry.
Surely not many doctors are thinking of their patients’ bladder cancers when they’re on the green in Bermuda.