Diabetes : What will make you feel better? (BD Medical - Diabetes Care)

  
 

   
Because your body completely stops making insulin, the only way to treat your diabetes is to give yourself the insulin that your body can’t produce anymore. However, if you swallow insulin, it will be destroyed in your stomach and will not be able to do its job.
   
That’s the reason why you have to give yourself injections of insulin through the skin.
But don’t worry, today’s insulin needles are so thin and tiny that you will hardly feel a thing!

To inject your insulin, you will have the choice between an insulin syringe and an insulin pen. Your diabetes nurse will help you to choose the one that is best for you. There are also different types of insulin to be used with your syringe or pen.
The most common ones are regular/ rapid acting insulin and intermediate acting insulin.