Using Insulin: Everything You Need for Success with Insulin

Very informative book, it will help when I take the big step to using insulin.

I wasn't sure about buying this book because I thought perhaps the information in it might be slightly out of date (it's copyright 2003). But I could not find any newer books that had the comprehensive information about using insulin that I needed, as a newly insulin dependent Type 2 diabetic. So I ordered the book, and oh boy am I glad I did! Yes, there is some slightly out of date information about the types of insulin available, but it doesn't matter. The book is clearly written and lays out exactly how insulin is put to best use. Couple this with the ADA's Complete Guide to Carb Counting and you've got an education!

As a diabetes educator, (nurse) I have read this book and learned new information. It is written to be easily understood by anyone and provides basic insulin information. It goes on to walk one through intensive insulin management, step by step. I recommend this book to all of my patients on insulin or soon to start.

This book should be issued with each prescription for insulin that is written/filled in the U.S. It is absolutely the best material available written on a subject that can be complicated and daunting. "Using Insulin" is an essential requirement for anyone who has either just started insulin therapy or who has changed to a basal/bolus approach as the preferred DM treatment. "Using Insulin" will enable the reader to establish correct baseline and bolus dosing, especially with the newer insulins. I have used, and will use, this book to problem-solve various dosing and diet issues. It is an excellent problem solving guide with easy to understand calculations, formulas and strategies. This book is a valuable reference tool for diabetics. My only criticism is entirely subjective and has to deal with how technical information is written.

I'm an adult, and about two years ago, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. On my first-ever trip to an endocrinologist, I -Practiced three times sticking a syringe into a round sponge -Was told to take 3 units of insulin 3 times daily -Was blessed and told "go thou out and be diabetic" (more or less) This book is largely responsible for the fact that I did not perish after this thorough instruction, but instead have pretty good control (~6 A1C). What I find most stands out about it is that it puts the responsibility for control where it exists in reality: the mind and body of the person living with diabetes. The tool for control is good data. This approach, and the direct and friendly voice of the author, helps it avoid being judgemental, or feeling as though the author is an omnipotent doctor helping a poor diabetic. This does not make it a useful book however, only a positive read. What makes it useful, and the best book on using insulin I have encountered is its focus on the practical, on what works, and on results. Examples: - Focuses first on controlling lows (immediate safety), then on highs (long-term health) - Stresses the importance of consistent data gathering, and even periodically testing my body's response to my basal insulin, which I have found to be central to my control from day to day. - Teaches insulin uptake response and peaks, helping to be watchful for lows and highs and to understand blood glucose cause and effect - Establishes key relationships between weight, carb response, insulin response and correction dosages that allowed me to control more closely, and correct more accurately when needed. If I ever meet the authors of this book I will kiss them. And my spouse might, too.