A diagnosis of diabetes is a difficult time in an individual’s life. Diabetic assistance is available, however, to those who are suffering through this ordeal. The future is full of insecurity; not only must the diabetic worry about everyday life, including all of the factors that are associated with the disease – which medications may be needed, how to treat the disease, what to eat and how to change one’s lifestyle to accompany the revelation – but in addition, the stress of financial security must be considered.

It is possible to make it through the turmoil surrounding a diabetes diagnosis. There is help out there available to those who need it and are willing to ask for it. Pharmaceutical companies, including Bayer, Merck, Pfizer, 3M, and Sanofi-Aventis, to name but a few, have in place assistance programs to help those in need. It is possible to reach out to these …