Tired of Insulin Injections

A colleague of mine recently started two patients on the V-Go - an insulin patch pump. The V-go is a disposable insulin delivery system that acts similarly to a pump without extensive programming. My colleagues intentions were to potentially help these patients with Type 2 diabetes whose blood sugars were constantly elevated get their blood sugars in control. These patients previously prescribed a diabetes regiment that required them to take multiple daily insulin injections.The problem was that they were not taking their medicine as prescribed - often they would miss injections because they would forget or felt it was inconvenient to carry around their pen devices. The V-Go sounded like a good solution for them. They could get insulin without having to give multiple daily injections. I am wondering if this new device will take off. Have you ever heard of the V-Go? What are your thoughts?  Tired of Insulin Injections originally appeared on About.com Diabetes on Thursday, April 24th, 2014 at 20:52:38.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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