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When Your Doctor Says It's Time to Start Insulin

If you have type 2 diabetes and your blood glucose isn't well controlled through diet and oral medicines, your provider may want you to start insulin. You may feel some of the following concerns.

You don't understand what you've done wrong.

Diabetes usually progresses over time. There comes a time when more and stronger treatment is needed. When the pills that have controlled your blood glucose no longer work, insulin is needed. This doesn't mean you have failed. It . . . [Full Text of this Article]

You feel isolated.

You feel like your life is going to change.

You've heard that insulin causes blindness and kidney failure.

You're afraid to take injections or worried about a complicated insulin routine.

You're afraid injections will hurt or that you'll have low blood glucose reactions (hypoglycemia).

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