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What is Insulin?

Insulin is a polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. It can change the liver's ability to release fat stores. Insulin must be administered to patients in whom there is a lack of the hormone, called diabetes mellitus type 1. Read more...Click to read more below

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Diabetes Type 2 23 5 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Diabetes Mellitus 19 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
Other 17 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
Diabetes Type 1 10 1 Efficacy_moderate
Increase effect of another treatment 3 1 Efficacy_major
General health 2 0

See all 76 patients currently taking Insulin

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 3
None
 8

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Insulin

Depressed mood 1
Anxious mood 1
Eating disorder 1
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) 1
Injection site bruising 1

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Insulin. See all 66 dosages ►

  5 other daily 9 mg daily 25 mg daily 30 mg daily 40 mg daily 50 mg daily 80 other daily 100 units daily 300 units daily 400 units daily
  2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 3 Number of Patients: 3 4 Number of Patients: 4 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Insulin (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 6   Other: 40%
Course of treatment ended 5   Course of treatment ended: 33%
Doctor's advice 3   Doctor's advice: 20%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 7%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 7%

See all 14 patients who’ve stopped taking Insulin

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Insulin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Stopped Taking Insulin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Insulin

Always
 9 75%
Usually
 2 17%
Sometimes
 1 8%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Insulin

Very
 1 8%
Somewhat
 1 8%
A little
 4 33%
Not at all
 6 50%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Insulin

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 1 17%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 1 17%
< $25
 4 67%

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Report created on February 11, 2012.