More than 1 million people with diabetes in the US rationed their insulin in the past year, a study finds
In December, Stephanie Arceneaux of Utah will have been living with type 1 diabetes for 30 years. She was diagnosed at age 6. “I have seen a lot of changes within how diabetes is cared for,” she said. “I always thought that as I got older, that things would improve, and unfortunately, that has not been the case.” Arceneaux’s husband and young son also both have type 1 diabetes. All three of them depend on insulin to survive.
insulin The choices Arceneaux found herself making in order to ration included not eating – as insulin is needed to cover carbohydrates that a person eats – and rationing things like test strips needed to test her blood sugar, meaning she was unaware of how much insulin she needed to give herself. She also rationed other care that she needed, she said, and spent a lot of time deciding which medical care was more important for her.
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