Humalog weird color [Archive]

Grunch

07-24-2009, 06:07 PM

I was going to inject my humalog and noticed there were some weird reddish things floating around. I agitated it and it kind of became more homogeneous but was not totally transparent.

Has this happened to anyone else? What could it be?

Delphinus

07-24-2009, 06:48 PM

I was going to inject my humalog and noticed there were some weird reddish things floating around. I agitated it and it kind of became more homogeneous but was not totally transparent.

Has this happened to anyone else? What could it be?

Is it expired?

Is it a cartridge?

If so, I wonder if it might be a bit of the rubber stopper that may have broken down for some reason.

owlyn

07-24-2009, 06:51 PM

I was going to inject my humalog and noticed there were some weird reddish things floating around. I agitated it and it kind of became more homogeneous but was not totally transparent.

Has this happened to anyone else? What could it be?

Blood maybe?????????

Grunch

07-24-2009, 06:52 PM

It's not expired.

It's one of those you put on the pen, not sure if it's called cartridge.

Delphinus

07-24-2009, 06:58 PM

It's not expired.

It's one of those you put on the pen, not sure if it's called cartridge.

Cartridge......

GeishaGirl

07-24-2009, 07:15 PM

Agree with owlyn -- it sounds like you accidentally got a drop of blood in there -- I don't know if that makes it bad to take or not :(

howdysf

07-24-2009, 08:18 PM

if you re-use syringes/needle tips, I say blood...

Cluck

07-24-2009, 11:44 PM

If the insulin looks at all 'weird' just don't use it. Get a fresh vial/cartridge.

sable_032592

07-27-2009, 08:17 PM

sounds like blood to me too... but also, could be anything that was on the tip of the needle tip that goes inside the cartridge... when you tear off the paper and then twist the pen tip onto it, perhaps there was something on the tip...

as for what to do now... dump it... it's contaminated with some unknown product or biological...