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12-24-2007, 05:10 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bangkok
Posts: 31
| | | I'm on 7, and I'm 14... Wow.
__________________ HBa1c Aug: 15% HBa1c Dec: 12.9% HBa1c Febuary: Coming soon!  Target: 9% Insulin: Humolog & Lantus
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12-24-2007, 07:00 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: illinois
Posts: 3,316
| | | what bugs me is when i get a "squirter"! last time it happened,blood squirted on my face and my glasses..... |
12-24-2007, 07:45 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Traverse City, MI
Posts: 61
| | | I guess I am lucky that I don't have those problems. I have my lancing device near max. I poke, test, then lick. Stops everytime after the lick. |
12-24-2007, 09:41 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bangkok
Posts: 31
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Originally Posted by shockme  what bugs me is when i get a "squirter"! last time it happened,blood squirted on my face and my glasses..... | Hate that too, Once went into my eyes 
__________________ HBa1c Aug: 15% HBa1c Dec: 12.9% HBa1c Febuary: Coming soon! Target: 9% Insulin: Humolog & Lantus
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12-26-2007, 08:53 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California
Posts: 1,286
| | I keep a "blotter" of tissue with all of my testers and push hard into it if I get a bleeder. I also keep some bandaid spots in the zip part just in case. It's an occasional problem for all of us, especially if we take aspirin, warfarin or ibuprofen.
I've noticed it happens more frequently if I am wearing white or I'm in a hurry  |
01-10-2008, 03:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 1,008
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I'm using the Aviva and loving it The Multiclix lancing device is heaven to use. If i remember it right, the lancets is 31G  And yet, after 3+ years of frequent testing, i can set my multiclix to depth 1.5 or 2, if i set it any deeper i'll have to use bandaids I don't get those squirters often at all these days, and wasn't frequented with them before either, but i did have a few when i used my first meter... Precision Extra, used the lancing device for that one... even the lowest setting on that one could cause quite some bleeding  But my worst fear is those lancets used in doctors office and hospitals, did you know that Soft-clix PRO uses 21G lancets!  I've used one of those once, and ****** **** it hurt like ****  and the bleeding was quite bad... These days i bring my own lancing device when i go for checkups, to avoid those 21G monsters 
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen |
01-10-2008, 03:52 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Macomb Twp, Mich
Posts: 866
| | Simple Solution.....buy alcohol wipes in the diabetic section of walmart,meijer..etc..you get a box of 100 for 1.00..Just wipe after the puncture,and it seems to stop it right away. Im on blood thinners, so I had to experiment and find out what works. Good Luck!!
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Diagnosed Type 2 April '07
2000mg Metformin daily,Crestor,Plavix,Atenolol,Pottasium,Diet Coke taken as needed!!
(April '07-A1C= 6.9)
(August '07 A1C= 6.4)
(March '08 A1C= 6.4)
(June '08 A1C= 6.3)
(Sept '08 A1C= 7.4)  When signmakers go on strike, is their anything written on their signs?? |
01-10-2008, 04:03 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 1,008
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Originally Posted by bryan42 Simple Solution.....buy alcohol wipes in the diabetic section of walmart,meijer..etc..you get a box of 100 for 1.00..Just wipe after the puncture,and it seems to stop it right away. Im on blood thinners, so I had to experiment and find out what works. Good Luck!! |
When i clean my hands with alcoholwipes before or after testing, the bleeding seems to last forever Especially if i have been using one of those monstersized lancets doctors and hospitals usually have I'm not on blood thinners btw...
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen |
01-10-2008, 06:15 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lower Templestowe, Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,970
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Originally Posted by shockme what bugs me is when i get a "squirter"! last time it happened,blood squirted on my face and my glasses..... | LOL Trish, I once squirted someone else's face!!
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For the eyes are signs of the soul within
Of the heart that is real, and true
- A.B. "Banjo" Paterson |
01-10-2008, 06:23 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Amarillo, Tx
Posts: 95
| | | I've never had that problem, I have to my lancer is set to max, and I have to push it hard on my finger.. Then "milk" my finger to get any blood, sometimes I cant even get enough out of it to fill a test strip ( One Touch Ultra's ).. Within a few seconds my finger wont bleed at all, so if your not on the ball to get any blood after lancing you have to do it all over again... My hands are about as tough as leather gloves though, I'm just surprised that being that rough the hole seals as fast as it does..
One of my employee's has a bleeding problem, just barely cuts himself and he makes a mess.. But he's on blood thinners.. Never seen anyone bleed like he does, cut himself with a knife opening boxes last yr, thought he was going to bleed to death.. |
01-10-2008, 06:41 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Missouri
Posts: 301
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Originally Posted by shockme what bugs me is when i get a "squirter"! last time it happened,blood squirted on my face and my glasses..... | I can count on two fingers how many times that has happened to me in the course of my diabetic life.  I actually found it quite funny - I embarrassingly admin I sometimes try to do it about 30 seconds after lancing my finger - just to see if I can.  |
01-10-2008, 06:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lower Templestowe, Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,970
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Originally Posted by jjames I can count on two fingers how many times that has happened to me in the course of my diabetic life. I actually found it quite funny - I embarrassingly admin I sometimes try to do it about 30 seconds after lancing my finger - just to see if I can. | Nice pun, Jay
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For the eyes are signs of the soul within
Of the heart that is real, and true
- A.B. "Banjo" Paterson |
01-10-2008, 07:19 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 3,081
| | | Hot Day + comadin taker = red fountain!!! |
01-11-2008, 06:59 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 7,178
| | | I think I missed this thread the first time around....so appropriate this morning. I tested and went about my business, now I note 2 small blood stains on my lab coat....must have been a better stick than I realized.
Also, i've noticed that the lower my blood sugar is, the better I bleed....maybe if its higher, the blood is thicker? Not sure if there's a correlation or its just in my mind.
I've had a few "squirters" and they always take me by surprise.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
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