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insulin, and pills may not control your blood glucose
levels during stressful times. You see, stress causes blood
glucose levels to shoot up.
Treatment #2: insulin therapy
Insulin is a body hormone made by the pancreas. People
with diabetes are prescribed insulin, either because their
bodies don't produce insulin (Type 1 diabetes) or don't
use insulin properly (Type 2 diabetes).
Reasons you may start on insulin:
Your blood glucose levels
The time you've had diabetes
Other medicines you're taking
Your general overall health
You can't take insulin as a pill, by the way, because it gets
broken down during digestion, so it has to be injected
into the fat underneath your skin. That's the only way for
it to get into your blood.
