Q. List disbeliefs which patients have about insulin?
a) Insulin is not effective.
Some patients believe that insulin is not effective for treating diabetes.
b) Insulin causes complications or death.
Often the experience of relatives or friends makes patients believe that they get complications or death from insulin.
c) Insulin injections are painful.
Many patients equate insulin injections with injections of antibiotics or vitamin B complex and the pain they have experienced in the past.
Many patients believe that insulin injection is as painful as antibiotics or neurobion injection.