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07-22-2005, 09:35 AM
|  | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Broxburn, Scotland
Posts: 83
| |  What diabetes related accidents/injuries have you had?
I've had two main ones.
The WORST (and it still makes my toes curl) was when I was replacing the tip back onto the needle, I was holding it at a slight angle and therefore it wouldn't go on easily, so I really pushed it on... The needle came right through the plastic and went pretty deeply into my finger  !!!
The second was once I was about to inject and goodness knows what I actually did but I managed to just jab the **** thing right into my hand...
We should be paid danger money, we really should!
(Also, a good pal of mine dropped her pen just as she was about to inject into her tum and it ended up making a big slice under her belly button which resulted in her needing stitches!)
I feel a bit queezy now...  |
07-22-2005, 10:05 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Mason, OH
Posts: 17
| | This one is sort of scary 
This happened over 10 years ago and at the time I was taking Regular and NPH of the old beef-pork variety. This insulin caused me to have very deep and violent low blood sugars. Anyway, at the time I was dating someone who I worked with that lived about 45 minutes away. Late one night coming home from her house my sugar started to significantly drop. I noticed this because I started sweating and this was on a cool night with my air conditioner running in the truck (Jeep Comanche). Being the idiot I was at that time there was nothing in the truck I could take or eat. Well, the next exit on the highway was the one I needed to take and it was about 3 or 4 miles away. I thought "no problem, I can make that easy". I knew there were several fast food places I could stop to pick up something so I just sped up a bit to cut the time down  Next thing I know I'm waking up bouncing all over the seat. I had run off the highway and was traveling about 70 MPH through the median in the center of the highway  This had a shocking effect on my low blood sugar symptoms and I immediately felt better and very wide awake! Well, that did not last long, I don’t remember exiting the highway but somehow I managed to turn the correct direction and make one more turn to start heading towards my house. I was awakened again suddenly and found myself lying over into the passenger side of the seat??? I had gone off the road and hit a VERY large branch of a VERY large tree that collapsed the drivers’ side of the roof!!! I've got blood covering my left arm and face and it's dripping everywhere. Now I really am WIDE AWAKE and FULLY AWARE  I recognize where I am and strange enough it's only about a half mile from my house. I get the truck back on the road by reaching to the left with my arm to steer and manage to drive home. I immediately got in the shower, cleaned off all the blood and got all the glass out of my arm and face possible. Then when the adrenalin started to come down I went and got some juice.
To make this long story short, the accident went unnoticed by anybody besides my family. The story to the insurance company was I fell asleep, and the truck was totaled after being looked at by the insurance adjuster. Whew, I'm lucky to have survived that late night drive   |
07-22-2005, 10:17 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Princeton, NJ
Posts: 160
| | | Wow! That's some story! Interesting how a "totaled" vehicle can still get you home!
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T1 from June 16, 2005, 34 yrs old
Novolog (day) via NovoPen 3
Lantus (night) via OptiClick
Last A1c tests:
03/30/2006: 5.6 
12/19/2005: 5.8
09/30/2005: 5.2
06/17/2005: 12.2  |
07-22-2005, 12:23 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North-Central Indiana
Posts: 3,730
| | My old style of reservoirs needed to be pushed down and locked on the vial of insulin and I had put my thumb on the top of it resulting in the needle going into my thumb. Come on confess I know there are some pump users that this happened to. 
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Pumping for almost 6 years
MM Purple 722 with Humalog
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Just because I've been on df for a whole day doesn't mean I'm ADDICTED... my chair is just COMFY... |
07-22-2005, 01:36 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Manchester England
Posts: 97
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Originally Posted by Cookie I feel a bit queezy now... | This is reason I hate being diabetic, I almost passed out reading it. I am t2 at the moment just on tablets, but injecting.....  |
07-22-2005, 01:43 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Princeton, NJ
Posts: 160
| | Hey, Andy, you get used to it! Not that there's much choice 
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T1 from June 16, 2005, 34 yrs old
Novolog (day) via NovoPen 3
Lantus (night) via OptiClick
Last A1c tests:
03/30/2006: 5.6
12/19/2005: 5.8
09/30/2005: 5.2
06/17/2005: 12.2 |
07-22-2005, 01:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
Posts: 4,841
| | | I've done things like dropping a syringe into my foot after injecting the insulin into my arm (the blood that came out was a dark red), as well as breaking my nose several times and my front teeth recently while in insulin shock. I've also totaled several automobiles. Insurance is a little prohibitive right now . . .
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Last edited by lgvincent : 07-22-2005 at 02:04 PM.
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07-22-2005, 02:02 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Miami, Fl
Posts: 3,113
| | well....
2 cert that was quite an event, gla you came out of that one. As for me... there have been a few..
1) While filling my insulin syringe, I placed the cap in my mouth to hold it (STUPIDINO!)while I filled, I sneezed and lodged the cap right into my throat, I couldnt breathe.
2) Came back from a trip and had BIG time jet lag, refused to eat (very young) and fell asleep. Woke up w/ a Hypo and my mom came in and gave me my daily shot of insulin on top of that,  causing me to NEVER wake up. I woke up in an ambulance outside my house. I came to recognize my family about 8 hrs later.
2) Most recently I had a car accident (you can look it up here) My bloodsugar dropped from 1 minute to the next and I slammed into another car. I was ok, so was my daughter, and the driver was also.
I just wish I could have been on a pump 10 years ago, all my fault most probably for hesitating.
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07-22-2005, 06:34 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Virginia
Posts: 592
| | | omg those are some stories.
worse i've done is jab the needle in my finger.
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T1 DX'd 4-16-96
Cozmo blue pump since 7-8-05
Latest A1C levels:
7-30-8 A1C 6.0
4-30-08 A1C 5.9
1-18-08 A1C 5.9
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07-22-2005, 11:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
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Originally Posted by amccrazgrl omg those are some stories.
worse i've done is jab the needle in my finger. | Same here, only one time (Diabetes related), and the other times were when I was working as a vet. tech...I had more incidents working as a tech. than with my Diabetes... Have had some weird and wild lows, but no accidents as a result of them...
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07-23-2005, 02:09 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 967
| | Only thing that has happened to me this far is set my softclix on the deepest setting and test when i had a bad hypo yesterday was blood everywhere
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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  |
07-23-2005, 10:18 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The mighty shire. England
Posts: 1,225
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Originally Posted by Cookie I've had two main ones.
The WORST (and it still makes my toes curl) was when I was replacing the tip back onto the needle, I was holding it at a slight angle and therefore it wouldn't go on easily, so I really pushed it on... The needle came right through the plastic and went pretty deeply into my finger !!! | I just did just that  owch!!!
The only other thing I've ever done is stab my boyfreind in the leg, I was sat next to him about to have my injection and kinda waved the pen about a bit for some reason and scraped his leg 
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07-23-2005, 10:33 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
Posts: 4,841
| | | Oops! I forgot about that! I've hurt myself several times when replacing the cap on the needle only to have it go into my hand or a finger. The bad thing is, I usually push the cap real hard to make sure it stays on so when the needle goes in my hand, it's got a lot of force behind it. Not going to earn a Boy Scout badge speaking the sort of language I use at times like that!
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Brandy
My Little Princess
August 18, 1990 - May 3, 2006
Say you'll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
Lead me, save me
from my solitude . . .
Say you want me
with you ,
here beside you . . .
Anywhere you go
let me go to . . .
Christine,
that's all I ask of . . .
(you) |
07-23-2005, 03:34 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 967
| | Right. I forgot... My cat has pulled my infusionset out once :p Dunno how he did it. I have to use violence to get them out 
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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 |
07-23-2005, 05:25 PM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Lancaster, UK
Posts: 338
| | | i got a needle stuck in my stomach. it snapped off while injecting and its still in there! there is a post about it somewhere on here... it was last summer.
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