Once you are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, insulin is your best friend forever. As you start injecting, you’ll be asked to keep rotating your injection sites. If you keep injecting on the same site over and over again, there will be either build up or break down of fat under the skin called as…

Insulin injections are meant to be given beneath the skin (subcutaneously) or in the fatty tissue, such as abdomen, thighs or back of the arms. The reason insulin is injected in subcutaneous tissue is, this layer is poorly supplied by nerves causing less pain or discomfort, moreover, presence of fatty tissue causes absorption of insulin…