Insulin is a Diabetics best friend

Insulin is not a monster, It’s the best friend a Diabetic patient may have..

The root cause of Diabetes is lack of Insulin, wether relative or complete..all medicines that are given orally somehow try to manipulate secretion or action of Insulin, except some new agents ( like Januuvia, Trajenta, Galvus, Byetta etc.)  which may to some extent be acting by other mechanisms as well, but they also are not fail safe.

Insulin is the only dependable sure shot therapy in Diabetes, When everything else fails only Insulin helps. This has become one of the drawbacks of Insulin, people have started associating Insulin with Last stage of Diabetes, as they generally start late on Insulin when everything else has failed and patients are suffering from  life threatening complications of Diabetes.

When a diabetic is suffering from complications like Kidney failure, Diabetic foot, or other acute infections, oral medicines have to be stopped and Insulin is used to control Sugar levels.

One of the greatest advantage of Insulin is the possibility of dose titration, its dosage can be varied from few units to few hundred units, thus invidualized for every patients and even for the same patient may be modified depending on circumstances.

Side effects- there may be 2 undesirable side effects of Insulin, weight gain and Hypoglycemia – low Blood Sugar levels. Weight gain is moderate and avoidable- even if its there, usually 2-3 kags and not more, Hypoglycemia may also be avoided by timely modifying the dosage and taking proper meals…