How can I manage diabetes type 1 with pills?
Management of diabetes, and in particular Type I diabetes, is steadily improving ever since the discovery of Insulin in the 1920s. It has gone from a particularly bad slow death sentence to something with which people live for 60 years or more. As of yet there is orally taken insulin, but there are drugs that can slow the digestion of carbohydrates and “even out” the peaks and valleys. Some Type I diabetics have been fitted with insulin pumps, which remain fixed on the body throughout the day. Your medical advisors can best determine if that is right for you. Future developments may include built-in glucose testing that would regulate the dispensing of insulin through such a pump, essentially comprising a closed-loop system.
Unfortunately peole with Type 1 diabetes need injections of insulin. Insulin cannot be given in tablet form because insulin is destroyed by the digestive juices in the stomach. As you have Type 1 diabetes your insulin injections are vital to keep you alive and you must have them every day, don’t put your life at risk because of silly gossip because it achieves nothing if you are upset because of what this colleague has said speak with her about it in a professional manner and if you feel that you cannot do this then speak with your manager about it and let him/her deal with it.
