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Ending the need for painful daily injections?

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Cowboyjim

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428703.600-ultrasound-pill-helps-the-medicine-go-down.html
A swallowable ultrasound device called uPill could end the need for painful daily injections DAILY injections are a painful fact of life for many people with diabetes or cancer. Pills are an easier and more pleasant treatment method but substances like insulin do not penetrate tissue quickly enough to be effective when taken orally. Now a pill that uses ultrasound to speed up drug delivery could remove the need for needles. Ultrasound has been used for years to accelerate the transfer of drugs through skin and can increase drug absorption by a factor of 10.

Hmm... are any injections anything other than painful? :roll:
 
I have a very very hard time taking pills - bordering phobia. I take my calcium supplements as soluble. Tastes like .... but I cannot take pills.

I am on insulin for this reason and because of side effects from oral meds and well, I may be type 1.5 anyways but possibly could have delayed insulin if I could agree with pills one way or other.

I would much prefer my injections.

But then, I am odd.

My injections aren't painful. My reaction to oral meds is. One type sent me in shock as I was cross-reacting.
 
Sorry to hear that... btw a mate of mine runs a company that distributes some gadget that helps people swallow pills... sorry I cannot recall its name... his name is unforgettable tho Mervyn (Patterson)....
I don't even like taking my own blood sample... and hate the HbA1c
 
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