Contact your doctor Marie and talk it over with him.
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I’ve been a few third world counries and isulin was always availible, for a price.
My advice would be discuss it with your doctor and lay in a 6 to 8 week supply, and rotate it.
Good luck.
I know you have probably been told this but a high protien diet wouldn’t hurt. God bless.
What about Canada or Mexico for sources? Perfectly legal with Rx.
I’ve been thinking the same thing Marie. I’ve been wondering what will happen if we stop having access to any of our meds. I know I take many for many illnesses, but as a mom, I know how frightening it feels not to be able to meet our children’s needs. I hope you find what you are looking for.
See if you can get your local library to obtain “Beckman’s Internal Medicine” through inter-library loan.
You're smart to plan ahead, but the hard truth is that a good number of us -- those who need insulin or heart drugs or blood pressure drugs, etc -- are simply not going to survive if western civilization collapses.
I've made my peace with it. It's the culling of the herd. I'm no longer young enough or healthy enough to survive such a calamity. So be it.
That being said, stop listening to people like Glenn Beck when he gets freaky about the end of the world. You don't see him canceling his talk show contracts and building and provisioning a bunker somewhere in the mountains. In fact, he seems to hang around the absolute worst places to be when the end of western civilization arrives....
My recommendation:
Contact Jerry Pournelle ( http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ )
He hinted in his book ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ that he knew how to do this, back in 1985 (for the same reason - the fall of civilization). He also appears to have common political leanings with us.
Offer to subscribe to his website if he can help you. It’s cheap.
"Beckman internal medicine" is not even turning up in the Library of Congress e-catalog (http://catalog.loc.gov/).
Eating carbs really spikes your blood sugar, and fast. Eating protein raises it somewhat. Eating fat has very little if any effect on blood sugar; so, despite the "conventional wisdom" which has been hysterically anti-fat for decades now, eating fat might be of some help (at least temporarily or in an emergency).
A diet of mostly protein and fat stabilizes the blood sugar. Neither type of diabetic should be eating a diet high in carbs of any kind.
You might also see any of Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's books on this subject. He is a type I diabetic who uses, in fact, very low doses of insulin on himself, and tightly controls his blood sugar within the normal range, because he is very rigid with his diet--both in terms of what he eats and amounts of various foods.
Bernstein also has a website. You might find his biography pretty interesting.
I have a child with chronic health problems. What you are saying is overwhelming to those of us with children who have ongoing medical needs. I have thought of terrible scenarios which may cut off access to health care but have no idea how I would cope. My best advice to you is to connect with a group of people in your community. Mine is my church and there is where I might find support and resources if the worst happens. Hopefully insulin would be available!
Just because the Saxl's used a particular book doesn't mean you would need the same one to find out about the work of Banting and Best. There are undoubtedly better sources, even on the net. Even the Saxl's had access to a laboratory, as well as animal pancreases, and even then it took them a very long time. It also sounds very dangerous to attempt the use of a home-brew preparation that might contain some insulin but might also provoke serious immune reactions.
Rather than going back so far in time, perhaps it would be good to learn more about how recombinant insulin is created. This might be beyond the means of the individual to manufacture but perhaps a small co-op could handle it.
I don’t believe it will get that bad.
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