No needles?
(yes - I am retreading the title used over at Knitting Passion - different needles, different idea, same title - heh)
I know that one of the complaints most often heard about day to day glucose testing is that stick - do you wish there were some way to test levels WITHOUT doing a stick?
How about administering insulin without a daily stick? Does that appeal?
This article: Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion of Insulin just might have some of the answers you seek. The article stresses that the pump has not been approved for use at this time, but seems to say that it is likely in the near future.
Either it or something like it will come along - we can at least hope for that.
One thing that stuck out as I read this article was the hope that glucose testing might be done in the future through a wireless device. Now, just how cool is that? This, too, is still in the experimental stages.
When I think back to my younger years (I was born in 1950) and realize just how many inventions have come into being since I was born . . . well, I have every reason to hope that something like this article discusses will one day be possible.
HOPE!
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