I-PORT ADVANCE™ WHO KNEW SOMETHING SO SMALL COULD MAKE SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE

Carol was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes about 10 years ago.  The challenge started when her Doctor decided to start her on multiple daily insulin injections.   

She found injecting herself to be painful and to make matters even worse, she developed an allergic reaction to the needles, causing blisters whenever she injected.  “The pain and discomfort of injections really impacted on my quality of life and compliance.”  Her diabetes nurse educator recalls how frustrated she became with her blood glucose control.  The challenge was: How do you motivate a person not to skip injections knowing that it will cause pain and discomfort?

When Sr Isobel heard about the i-Port Advance™, she knew she had a solution for Carol! What surprised her was how easy the i-Port Advance™ was to insert.

i-Port Advance™ is a small injection port (size of a R5 coin) worn on the body that users inject into instead of directly into the skin. 

Carol did not have an allergic reaction to the i-Port Advance cannula and this helped her to reduce the number of skin punctures from an average of 4-6 per day to just one every 3 days. But best of all – she stopped skipping her shots as pain and blisters were finally issues of the past!

Carol has been using i-Port Advance™ for almost four months now and her diabetes management and quality of life has improved tremendously!