Timesulin is for all Insulin Pen Users
According to a recent diabetes research survey by Novo Nordisk, more than one in three diabetes patients skip doses or fail to take their insulin as prescribed, stating that they have done so on average three times in the last month. And 77% of physicians estimate that in reality this number could be as high as six times per month. The study, called Global Attitudes of Patients and Physicians in Insulin Therapy (GAPPTM) survey identifies a problem most diabetes patients are already all too familar with. Read the full survey.
Skipping a dose of insulin or taking an accidental double injection can have terrible short and long term effects on your health. When an injection is skipped, the resulting low insulin levels can rapidly cause high blood sugar or Hyperglycemia. And when blood sugar levels stay extremely high, the resulting acute hyperglycemia quickly becomes a serious medical condition.
Prolonged hyperglycemia in diabetes may result in:
- Skin infections
- Slow-healing cuts and sores
- Decreased vision
- Nerve damage causing painful cold or insensitive feet, loss of hair on the lower extremities, and/or erectile dysfunction
- Stomach and intestinal problems such as chronic constipation or diarrhea
(Source http://diabetes.webmd.com/diabetes-hyperglycemia)
When a double dose of insulin is accidentally taken, blood sugar levels can plummet quickly which is a condition called hypoglycemia.
Without treatment, more severe hypoglycemia symptoms may develop, including:
- Headache
- Feeling irritable
- Poor coordination
- Poor concentration
- Numbness in mouth and tongue
- Passing out
- Nightmares or bad dreams
- Coma
(Source http://diabetes.webmd.com/diabetes-hypoglycemia)
In addition to the personal discomfort caused by this condition, you can easily understand why low blood sugar has such a serious impact on the daily life of the person living with diabetes. Driving a car and even crossing a street can quickly become dangerous situations for people who do not have great control over their blood sugar levels. Of course, Timesulin can never take over the responsibility of monitoring your disease, but in those instances where you are anxiously left wondering whether or not you’ve taken your injection, Timesulin can be a lifesaver!
Timesulin provides peace of mind:
Are you positive that you took your last injection? How sure are you? Would you bet your life on it?
We invented Timesulin because being 95% sure just isn’t good enough. Missing injections or double dosing is a serious potentially life threatening problem and it’s not surprising that so many people living with diabetes have told us about the anxiety they experience when they are unsure if they’ve taken their shot or not. With Timesulin, a simple glance at the display can tell you if your last injection was 5 minutes ago, or 4 hours ago. No more worrying, no more guessing.
Timesulin is easy to use:
We designed Timesulin to be extremely simple to use. Managing your condition takes enough of your time as it is and we decided that Timesulin should not require reading a user manual or changing your routine. We think it’s better to do one thing great than many things poorly. We like the HumaPen Memoir ® and it’s a great product for many people. We welcome the leading edge innovation and we realize that many people will love the product and the many advanced features. However, the HumaPen Memoir ® comes with an instruction book that is 20 pages long and, of course, it means visiting a doctor and switching to another type of insulin.
Our patented approach is very different. We started the design process by asking ourselves what the simplest solution would be. We wanted a solution that wouldn’t require you to switch to another pen and would work with the prefilled pens that many of us use. We also wanted to create a solution with no buttons to push and no change to your routine. You don’t even have to set a clock with Timesulin. Actually, setting a clock can be a bad thing. Business travellers who travel across timezones need to be sure of when they took their last injection. And daylight savings time, which is used in most of the world ,ensures that your clock will need changing twice a year. Instead, we decided that the most relevant information we want to show is how much time has passed since your last injection. It works across all timezones, with or without daylight savings time, and you don’t need a microscope to read the display, nor do you have to push any tiny buttons. Just replace the standard cap on your pen with your Timesulin cap and you will always know how long it’s been since the last injection.
