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Does insulin cause weight gain?
I'm 15, almost 16, and have been T1 diabetic since I was 8.. I used to be sooo skinny, but since having to inject insulin, i'd put on a lot of weight.
I'm lost the weight now, though, but the sites I inject with insulin seem to hold the most weight.
I take insulin in my thighs and belly and they're the places i'm most likely to gain weight..
My legs are okay up until my thighs and then they just sort of stick out (not that much, but I think it's noticeable) and also on my belly..
Is it the insulin or is it just me? :")
12 Answers
- micksmixxxLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
The most likely cause of the collections of fat that you're experiencing, my friend, is from repeated injections in a smaller area. i.e. not properly circulating your injections sites. This results in what's called lipohypertrophy or insulin hypertrophy.
This can result in delayed insulin absorption, meaning that it will affect your blood glucose readings as the insulin isn't being used efficiently.
- KristinLv 69 years ago
Yes and no.
Before using insulin, the diabetic (type 1 or type 2) has typically not been receiving enough insulin either due to inability to produce insulin or, in the case of type 2, insulin resistance.
When the body finally has enough insulin, and is able to make proper use of food consumed, the person will begin to gain weight as their starved cells can now be "fed".
But this is only as much weight as they would have gained on their normal diet had they been nondiabetics, and perhaps a tiny bit more from the rush of regaining.
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- 9 years ago
The insulin allows your body to use the sugar that would circulate in your blood and cause damage to your body when your body wasn't making its own insulin. The amount of insulin you need depends on how much you eat and how active you are. It's not really the insulin that makes you fat, the insulin just makes your metabolism work just like a normal persons does which means you eat more you gain weight.
- mildred fLv 79 years ago
People normally gain weight in those areas of the body. Look at old people, then older people. No different with you. So inject your hips and then you lessen what you think is caused by insulin injections. It is not caused by an injection site; insulin acts systemically.
As you grow your body shape will change. I see nothing adverse about your changes over the years. A 3 year old certainly has much less body mass than a teen, and much different proportions.
- 9 years ago
You were probably skinny as a kid because insulin is needed to store the energy you eat and if you were not producing much your body just would not store any fat no matter how much you ate. If you insulin dosage is right it will just allow your body to store fat where it would naturally.
Please, please please do not stop taking the insulin to loose weight. The long term effects of high blood sugar are terrible, permanent and accumulate over time. They including loss of blood supply and feeling in your toes which can lead to skin ulsers that wont heal, infections and in severe cases amputations.
Source(s): My Gran is a long term diabetic who never controlled her sugar levels properly - 9 years ago
Very likely the insulin. Insulin promotes the storage of sugar, and stops the burning of fat.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Insulin acts on liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood,which store it as glycogen.
Since Insulin is circulating in the blood stream it will have no local action.
- Anonymous9 years ago
For me it doesn't. I have been on it for 20 yrs never had weight problems. Over eating is the main cause of weight gains.