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The place in your body where you inject insulin may be as important to your diabetes control program as the time and the amount you inject.
Where you inject insulin determines how fast the insulin will become available to act upon the glucose circulating in your blood-stream.
To "get your money's worth" from every insulin injection, you need to select the best injection site.
You need to think about the timing of the insulin's action, the amount of time between the injection and when you eat a meal, and the rate at which the insulin is absorbed.
When you were first instructed how to inject insulin, your diabetes educator probably told you …