Type 1 diabetes can only be treated with injections at the moment.

Diabetes can potentially be diagnosed by taking a small sample of blood from your finger, which isn't really painful.

Ultimately, if it is a choice between doing an injection or dying, most people would choose doing the injection. Insulin injections don't hurt (if you do it right you don't actually feel it), they aren't as deep as most other injections you get (vaccinations go into the muscle, blood comes from a vein, insulin goes into the layer of fat just under the skin).

Also, you get to do it at your own pace, so if it starts hurting, you stop and try somewhere else.

If you think you have diabetes, go and get it checked out, it is definately worth getting it sorted ASAP if you do have it, the complications from uncontrolled diabetes are pretty nasty.
(ascience, Tue 16 Mar 2010, 20:14, Reply)