Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
My first encounter with insulin came when I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Being pregnant was hard for me. Being diagnosed with diabetes was harder. And learning how to cope with insulin therapy was the hardest part of all.
If you?ve never used insulin, or been around someone using it, you might think the worst part of the therapy is the injection. The injection is unpleasant, no doubt, but it isn?t the biggest downside to insulin therapy. The worst thing about insulin therapy, by far, is the hypoglycemia that often accompanies it.
So when I first heard about the work being done in Israel to create oral insulin, I thought it sounded great but I wasn?t over-the-top excited since what I?m waiting for is insulin that doesn?t cause hypoglycemia. Then I talked to the team at Oramed Pharmaceuticals in Jerusalem, where they believe they?ve successfully developed oral insulin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and I was floored. Not only has Oramed created oral insulin that?s shown good results in early trials, apparently, it doesn?t cause hypoglycemia.
http://asweetlife.org/a-sweet-life-...-promising-development-of-oral-insulin/24033/
If you?ve never used insulin, or been around someone using it, you might think the worst part of the therapy is the injection. The injection is unpleasant, no doubt, but it isn?t the biggest downside to insulin therapy. The worst thing about insulin therapy, by far, is the hypoglycemia that often accompanies it.
So when I first heard about the work being done in Israel to create oral insulin, I thought it sounded great but I wasn?t over-the-top excited since what I?m waiting for is insulin that doesn?t cause hypoglycemia. Then I talked to the team at Oramed Pharmaceuticals in Jerusalem, where they believe they?ve successfully developed oral insulin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and I was floored. Not only has Oramed created oral insulin that?s shown good results in early trials, apparently, it doesn?t cause hypoglycemia.
http://asweetlife.org/a-sweet-life-...-promising-development-of-oral-insulin/24033/