Top Ten Reasons Not to Start Insulin Therapy

By Dr. Bill Quick

Reason #10

Reason #10

Aunt Tillie, who was blind and whose kidneys had failed, started insulin shots and died soon after. [Aunt Tillie should have started insulin years ago, before she got devastating complications. Had she controlled her diabetes all along, she may have had less complications and perhaps lived longer.]

By Dr. Bill Quick— Last Modified: 11/12/2012, First Published: 12/08/2011