Decades into diabetes but insulin therapy is still hard to manage

Diabetes is a condition in which your pancreas fails to secrete a sufficient amount of insulin

So, your doctor told you that you need insulin therapy for your Type 2 diabetes.

This is a common problem and likely to be more so in the coming years. About 29 million people in the US have Type 2 diabetes, and another 86 million have prediabetes. About one in four people with Type 2 diabetes is on insulin therapy, and another one in four likely needs to be.

What does it mean to be on insulin therapy, exactly? And whose fault is it? Could you have prevented this? Will insulin actually work?