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Thread: Size of needles

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10-12-2004, 02:54 PM

rzrbks

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They are short. Once or twice, I have noticed a small droplet of insulin that weeps out. Does that mean the injection hole is not big enough to hold the dosage?

could be several things:

not in far enough
withdrew needle too fast

those would be my guess

I always leave the needle in at least 10 seconds and that way I don't have any weeping sites, generally, but then I use 6mm needles on injector and syringe

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