Medical Disclaimer
Please read this page properly. It matters more than anything else on this website.
This is not medical advice
Everything on this website — every article, table, video, support circle and conversation — is shared for education and peer support. It is not a diagnosis, a prescription, or a substitute for care from your treating doctor or diabetes team.
Never change treatment based on this site
Do not start, stop, increase or reduce insulin, and do not change any other medication, because of something you read here or heard in one of our sessions. Insulin doses depend on your own body, your food, your activity, your illness and a dozen other things that no website can know. Only your doctor or diabetes educator can advise on your doses.
Stopping insulin is dangerous
Type 1 Diabetes has no cure. Insulin is not optional and it cannot be replaced by diet, exercise, yoga, supplements, herbal preparations or any alternative therapy. Stopping insulin leads to diabetic ketoacidosis, which is a medical emergency and can be fatal within hours.
If anyone — including anyone claiming to represent us — suggests you stop insulin, do not act on it. Please tell us so we can address it.
In an emergency, do not use this website
If you or someone with you has severe low blood glucose, is confused or unconscious, is vomiting with high glucose or ketones, or is breathing unusually deeply, treat it as an emergency and get to a hospital immediately. This website is not an emergency service and is not monitored around the clock.
About our peer support
Our support circles are led by volunteers, many of whom are certified diabetes educators and many of whom live with Type 1 Diabetes themselves. Their experience is genuinely valuable, but it is lived experience, not clinical consultation. What worked for one person may be wrong or unsafe for another.
About the clinical documents on this site
We publish diagnostic standards, drug and commodity lists, and costings drawn from Government of India programme documents. These are reproduced for advocacy and awareness — so that families and officials can see what the standard of care should be. They are not treatment guidance for any individual, and they may not reflect the most recent revisions.
Accuracy
We take care to keep our information correct and current, but medical understanding changes, and government policy changes more often. We make no guarantee that everything here is complete or up to date. Where anything on this site conflicts with what your doctor tells you, follow your doctor.
External links
We sometimes link to hospitals, government pages and other organisations. We do not control or endorse the content on those sites.
If you need real medical help
We cannot give clinical advice, but we can often help you find someone who can — an endocrinologist, a certified diabetes educator, or a hospital in your district that supplies insulin.