Injections – do you ever have to self-inject (or have a caregiver help) because of your medical condition? Can you help an old friend with some advice.

Injections

Injections

A couple of weeks ago I was having a chat with an old friend who was diagnosed with diabetes around seven years ago.

Lawrence mentioned that his Diabetes Specialist Nurse had warned him that he was a very likely candidate to move on to insulin injections within the next couple of months.  Apart from the obvious concern as to his diabetes he was also worried about injections.

Why?

Well like a lot of us, me included, Lawrence hates injections.  So I said that I would run a blog post for him to get advice from our readers to to how they deal with having regular injections as part of their medical condition.  Of course it is not just diabetic who have injections – people with multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia all come to mind.

So how can you help?  Well firstly it would be great if you could take take the poll on the subject we have set up below.  Even better it would be great if you could use the comments box below to share your story of using injections and any tips you may have for lawrence to get used to them.

Many thanks in advance.


Diabetes. What type of diabetes do you suffer from?

 

Diabetes Awareness

Diabetes Awareness

With nearly 8% of the population in some countries now being  diabetic we have seen an increase in different types of diabetes described by endocrinology.

We are very interested in how these patterns manifest themselves within our readership

It would be great if you could take part in our poll below and tell us what sort of diabetes you have.

Many thanks in advance



How do you treat your diabetes?

exerciseWelcome to the latest in our series of blogs on diabetes.To see the previous blogs please go to https://patienttalk.org/?tag=diabetes.

In this blog we are trying to find out what are the most commonly used treatments and medications used by diabetics.  Please take the poll below to share which diabetes treatments you use.

Thanks very much in advance