If your health care team has suggested that you need to inject insulin during your pregnancy you will probably have some very important questions.

All people living with diabetes should have targets set for their diabetes, this is especially true as people get older.

Injecting insulin is a normal part of caring for type 2 diabetes It’s not your fault. Diabetes is a disease that may worsen over time. It’s not your fault. Diabetes is a disease that may worsen over time. This means that you may not be able to control your blood glucose with diet, exercise and/or pills alone.

Did you know? Where you inject matters. Insulin should be injected into the subcutaneous, or “fatty layer” of your skin where absorption is predictable and consistent.

Lipohypertrophy, sometimes referred to a “lipo”, is a thickened rubbery area of fat tissue that can grow and develop in the subcutaneous fat where injections of insulin are given.