Diabetes Diary

Injecting Insulin Insulin only needs to be injected under the skin (subcutaneously), not into a muscle or vein. Once it has been injected, it soaks into small blood vessels and is taken into the bloodstream. The picture below shows the different areas where you can inject insulin. The area recommended most especially for pre-meal injection is the stomach as insulin injected here is absorbed more readily. It is important to rotate injection sites within an area, moving one finger width from the site of the previous injection. Injecting into the same site can cause a build-up of lumps under the skin (known as lipohypertrophy). This may lead to erratic absorption of the insulin, which will affect control of blood glucose levels.