IMPORTANT Reasons why you shouldn’t buy insulin from W*lm*rt and why you shouldn’t retweet @dollasigndoryyy ‘s viral tweet about insulin, a mini thread

First and foremost, idgaf if you follow this twit user. Their content could be funny! Idk! I’m blocked so I can’t tell you! Secondly, DO NOT take medical advice from some twit thread and think “yeah that seems legit” w/o doing extensive research.

I’ll touch on the latter half at the end of this thread. For now, let’s focus on why you should not buy the insulin for 25$ from the whale mart.

1. The insulin sold at whale mart is intermediate-acting. You CANNOT go from Your mixture of Novolog/Humalog and Lantus/Basaglar to just using the crap that they sell there because it’s gonna FUCK you’re blood sugar levels all the way up.

Intermediate-acting means that it can star working from 2-4 hours, peaks at 4 to 12 hours, and keeps steadily working for 12-18 hours. TALK ABOUT THE INSTABILITY??

Small side step - I’m putting asterisks between words. Just remove the asterisk and you’ll have the full word.

N*ovolin 70/30 and R*eliOn are what most whalemarts carry. The pharmacy techs and pharmacists at whale mart don’t even recommend using this if you’re a type 1 diabetic because it causes so much restriction to your diet and your schedule.

Basically, you have set meal times and set amount of carbs you can eat. No more, no less, or you’re going to go into ketosis or fall into a low blood sugar. You HAVE TO eat at the same time EVERY day. You cannot change your carb ratios. The restrictions and burden are endless.

Example: it’s your birthday. You can’t have birthday cake, a sweet treat, an alcoholic beverage, or even a meal out because the carbs are going to straight FUCK you up and you can’t use your insulin to correct it because it’s not as beneficial as your fast acting!!!

Also, do not come at me and tell me that you can eat out as long as you get low carb because have you fucking TIRED to get the carb information from restaurants before? The shit on their websites aren’t even accurate half the time. -underlines “half the time” for the nit pickers-

2. The insulin you get from whale mart is insulin that was from the 1950s or older. Insulin technology has made leaps and bounds of progress for diabetics since then. (Hence the previous tweets on restrictions.) I, myself, would be wary to move backwards with medicine.

3. As most diabetics know, diabetes is occasionally an enigma! What may work for you will likely not work for someone else! What worked for you a year ago may not work for you now! Do not disregard the knowledge of your endocrinologists and take up what Twitter girl has to say.

AND HONESTLY THAT GOES FOR ME TOO!!! I may say what’s worked for me or what hasn’t but that doesn’t mean you’re going to have the same experience!

Not that I would purposefully post misleading info and ignore people who try to correct me like the original person I mentioned at the beginning of this thread but you have to be careful! Take everything with a grain of salt!

Which will help me segue into the final portion of this thread... Tweets like the one above are dangerous to young, impressionable 20s struggling to pay the bills and find the idea of 25$ insulin more tantalizing than their 150$ monthly bill. I get it. I’ve been there.