Understanding how insulin works can help with your control. This page has links to some great information on rapid and basal insulins and different delivery methods.
Insulin Basics
For people who use insulin to control their diabetes, it is important to know the basics. Here are some tips on how to store, draw into a syringe, and inject insulin.
Storing Insulin – Drawing Insulin – Injecting Insulin
Rapid Bolus Insulins
Humalog, produced by Eli Lilly and Company, was released in the U.S. in 1996. Novolog is made by Novo Nordisk and was released in 2001. Both insulins offer quicker action time than short-acting Regular insulin, which was first produced as a crude extract in 1921. Learn more about each in the following sections.
Kinetics vs Dynamics – Heat & Humalog – Humalog users report
Basal Insulins
Intermediate, long, and flat are the basal choices now available. The action times of these different basal insulins can be used to your advantage when you understand them. Learn more from the links below.
Adjusting Long Acting Insulins – Lantus Insulin
Alternative Insulin Delivery Methods
Inhaled Insulin Delivery – Oral Insulin Delivery – Transdermal Insulin Delivery
Miscellaneous
Insulin Action & Peak Times – Insulin Sensitivity
Pumping Insulin provides much more pump information and is the most helpful book ever written on insulin use.
Using Insulin takes you step by step toward excellent control. Whether you use one injection and pills, or six injections, you’ll learn far more from this book than from any other!