Insulin, My Best Friend

Insulin Dependent by Choice  Too often, T2D people wait until they can no longer produce their own insulin to begin injecting insulin.  They, and their doctors, wait until there's nothing else avilable to help them manage their blood sugar.  Insulin becomes the last hope, the desperate final treatment.  I want you to know how mistaken we are to think of insulin injections that way.

I started injecting insulin because what I learned about the pills' side effects scared me.  Some meds put enormous stress on your heart.  People have heart attacks, some die, caused by their diabetic medicine.  Some meds force your pancreas to work harder to produce insulin, wearing it out.  Your kidneys, too, have to work harder and suffer some damage.

When you start insulin injections early, you spare your pancreas, kidneys and heart the beating the meds give them.  The insulin supplements the insulin your body naturally produces.

T2D, Insulin Resistance  Type 2 Diabetes happens when your body cannot use your insulin properly.  Insulin cannot do its job.  Insulin takes sugar out of your blood stream and puts it into your muscles where it is used for fuel.  Inuslin also tells your liver to stop making more sugar when there's enough in your blood stream.  Between the foods we eat and our livers producing sugar, our blood sugar goes up when our bodies are resisting insulin.  Insulin injections boost insulin blood levels to give the sugar out of the blood stream. 

See What I Have to Say Please take a side trip to this website:  http://changingdiabetes-us.com.   When you get there, click on the "Voices of Diabetes" tab on the menu bar.  The next page will have a side menu.  Click on "Patient Video."  You will see a blond woman with a play icon in the middle of her face.  That's me.  Play it and hear me talk about overcoming my fear of injecting and other things about living with Type 2 Diabetes.  While your there, explore other pages and videos this site has to offer.  There's lots of information and inspiration for you.