Insulin

Insulin is often associated with weight gain, but that doesn’t always have to be the case. Read here for tips on avoiding weight gain after starting insulin.

Insulin that is injected into the body is a replacement or supplement to your body’s natural insulin, and is used to treat both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Insulin is one of the many tools that are used to manage diabetes. People living with type 1 diabetes must take insulin, as their bodies are no longer able to produce it. People living with type 2 diabetes may be prescribed insulin to help control their blood sugar more effectively.

Some time ago one of our readers asked a question about managing insulin with increased activity during travel...

When a healthcare practitioner recommends that a patient with diabetes should add insulin to their oral medications or entirely replace oral medications with insulin, the response is often one of dismay. Such patients often feel that the move to insulin means they have in some way failed in their diabetes self-management.

People with type 1 diabetes have absolutely no pancreatic function, so their bodies are unable to make insulin.

Several provinces in Canada cover the costs of insulin pumps for select groups of people with diabetes. Discover if you are eligible.