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- Type of diabetes
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Hi, not trying to generalize here, since I know everyone is different.
But as a diabetic, and knowing a few others with type 1, I have noticed something. It might be coindencial, but I have noticed that type 1s using their belly as injection site, myself included, seems to always be fatter, or overweight.
While diabetics that inject their insulin on other sites, thigh or arm, seems to always be slimmer or normal weight.
So here is my question. Do injecting insulin in your belly provide weight gain or fat storage. Or is it as simple, that tiny people use other sites than their belly to inject, because they have more fat tissues on their thigh or arm, making it more comfortable to inject there instead?
Honest question. Just started to think of it, since all I’ve met that use their bellies as inject site seems to be overweight.
But as a diabetic, and knowing a few others with type 1, I have noticed something. It might be coindencial, but I have noticed that type 1s using their belly as injection site, myself included, seems to always be fatter, or overweight.
While diabetics that inject their insulin on other sites, thigh or arm, seems to always be slimmer or normal weight.
So here is my question. Do injecting insulin in your belly provide weight gain or fat storage. Or is it as simple, that tiny people use other sites than their belly to inject, because they have more fat tissues on their thigh or arm, making it more comfortable to inject there instead?
Honest question. Just started to think of it, since all I’ve met that use their bellies as inject site seems to be overweight.