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In treatment of Type 2s, Insulin is seen as the last resort. In type 2s you still make your own insulin, so injecting extra leads to other hormone problems, one of which is constant background hunger and faster weight gain. Metformin is the first line of medication after diet and exercise. After that there are a variety of medications that are used to increase insulin effectiveness and reduce insulin resistance.
Diabetics who use injections are encouraged to avoid the front of the stomach area for injections. They are encouraged to use the sides where your arms normally fall to. Arms are also very effective. Your main goal is to avoid fat deposits, which inhibit insulin absorption and, at worst, will absorb insulin and then irregularly release it into the blood stream, leading to unreliable dosing.
Type 2s also usually use long acting insulin when they do dose. Short acting like Humalog and Novalog are nuclear options. Many endocrinologists will prescribe it to deathfats because there is simply no hope for them, but they'll still go through all the paces trying to get them to change their lives first. Deathfatrs that use short acting insulin end up on deaths door within 5-10 years usually because they just PILE ON the weight faster then anyone thought possible.
See above. Insulin is a last resort for type 2 diabetics, and if they do use it they usually use long acting insulin, whereas pumps use short acting on a continuous bolus. And speaking from experience: those pump infusion sites take time to heal, and the faster you go through them the more likely you'll run out of places to put it. Pumps only hold 300 units of insulin, and with the way Chinny eats she'd easily empty out the whole vial in a day. They'd never give a pump to a type 2 diabetic unless they were so far gone there was 0 hope of helping them.
