• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Injection sites

ljwilson

ljwilson

Well-Known Member
Messages
190
Location
West Sussex
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Dislikes
Diabetes!
After reading an article on Diabetesuk I have, in the last week, started injecting my Levemir in my leg rather than my stomach. Do you think this could be contributing to my overnight highs?

Lorna
 
Hi,
My son, 10, diagnosed 18months has always injected into his legs (levemir and novorapid- every injection) and doesnt experience overnight highs.

Hope this helps

Dawn x
 
Possibly, I have no problems with any high sugars overnight, but I have always injected in the abdomen area and on my waist area. Any area that is fat enough for me to inject into and since i'm severely underweight the only places I can inject are the areas I just mentioned. Also heard that if I tense my muscle in my abdomen when injecting, the insulin will be rather fast acting than the slow acting which I experience slight discomfort when doing so <-- don't mind this I don't think it has anything to do with overnight highs.

TLDR: I wouldn't know since I haven't injected in thighs or legs before.
 
I was always told stomach for Novo rapid and buttocks,thighs for Levemir. Because it takes a quickertime to be absorbed into the stomach and a longer time to be absorbed in the buttock and thigh.

Lucy.
 
One way to find out...inject into your legs one night, set your alarm to go off in the night so you can test yourself. Then repeat except inject into your abdomen. You will probably need to do this at various times during the night, or repeat the experiment throughout the week at different times.

I once suspected that I was having highs during the night, so did this experiment, but I wasn't. I'm in lantus though.
 
nmr1991 said:
I have always injected in the abdomen area and on my waist area. Any area that is fat enough for me to inject into and since i'm severely underweight the only places I can inject are the areas I just mentioned.
Click to expand...

I'm the same. Im 5'11" and only 8.4 stone.. but my doctors have never advised me on injection sites. I used to use my legs when I was on mixtard until my legs became really fatty with injecting all the time.
Now I use the left side of my stomach for my Novorapid and the right side of my stomach for Lantus {sometimes using my buttocks}

I have to rotate my injecting in the stomach though because I have "fatty" sites from injecting there too now!
 
Sarah69 said:
I've no idea I was told to use stomach for novorapid and legs for lantus.
Click to expand...


Yeah I do this. You don't want to risk novorapid and lantus clashing/mixing together as one can cancel out the other.
 
Beav said:
Yeah I do this. You don't want to risk novorapid and lantus clashing/mixing together as one can cancel out the other.
Click to expand...

I never had a problem with this 'lantus mixing with novorapid' there have been many times that I have used lantus straight after a novorapid injection before I go bed, if my blood sugar is above 9.5 mmol/l.

For some odd reason, injecting lantus on the left (my left) of my abdomen, I get a little discomfort and sometimes it bleeds for a good minute until it stops where injecting on my right is normal.
 
Hi
I was told never to inject slow and fast insulins into the same area, as the fast will cause the slow to turn fast and you will end up hypo, so I inject novarapid into tummy area and levimer into legs or buttocks alternating to prevent hormone lumps, which i tend to be prone to in my legs,

Paul J
 
Back
Top