Question about finger sticks.

[Rob43]

Does the body repair the tips of your fingers faster then any other place on the body when it comes to making all them needle holes in the fingers? I've been testing BG for over the last three months on my right and left fingers.


Thanks, Rob

[Granny Shanny]

Apparently some of us do, because mine heal so fast I can't even find which finger I used for just the immediately previous test. I don't get bruises or tenderness, I don't get red or black spots on my fingers . . . none of that . . . and I can't find the holes either ('course I can't see very well! :D :D :D) I wish all of you could have these finger pricks as easy as I have . . . I hadn't realized what a blessing it is until I see some of you strugging so hard with it.

Does the body repair the tips of your fingers faster then any other place on the body when it comes to making all them needle holes in the fingers? I've been testing BG for over the last three months on my right and left fingers.


Thanks, Rob

[RobertIA]

Am not sure about healing faster, but I have very few problems. Occasionally, I do get small blood dark spots, but in a few days they are gone. I have been testing four or more times a day for six plus years and have had no problems when I rotate and use both sides of each finger tip. I do use the outside of my thumbs, but not the inside on a regular basis. Many people do not use their thumbs because the nerves are more sensitive and the pain does bother.

Bob

[Bountyman]

Actually, the fastest healing spots on your body are your tongue and your genitals, in that order. Why, you'll have to take up with the designer.

I've been on diabetes therapy now for about 3 months. Initially I was given syringes (1/2" 29G), a vial of Lantus, and a Bayer Breeze2 meter that supplied a Microlet2 lancet device and Microlet lancets in the kit. Let me preface this with I HATE NEEDLES, and testing 3 times a day plus a syringe injection sucked. Two weeks later my PA-C switched me to the Lantus SoloStar Pen device and I ordered BD 5mm 31G pen neeedles to go with it. A noticeable difference.

The Bayer lancets (28G) were no kinder to me than an ice pick. In order to get deep enough to get a big enough sample for the Breeze2 I'd have to wince and turn away just before I pulled the trigger. Browsing the BD website I came across a lancet they make that was 33G, thinner than any lancet on the market and called them up to see if they'd snag me a few and ship them to me to try out. Lady at the other end said, "How 'bout if I just send you a box?" Nice people!

10 days later the UPS truck pulled up out front and delivered them. Couldn't wait to test...and that was a first. The lancets don't exactly match the Microlet2 lancet device but I cured that obsticle in a few minutes. BAM! Nada...no blood, like the Bayer lancet. BAM! again...no blood, and no pain. I thought, ****, these things work like ****...and then thought, well maybe I oughta squeeze my finger. HOLY MOLY...there was blood everywhere. Needless to say these puppies work great for me and no more little black dots on my finger. Well, no little black dots that I can see without a magnifying glass.

[buddy7]

Actually, the fastest healing spots on your body are your tongue and your genitals, in that order. Why, you'll have to take up with the designer.
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Hi Bountyman! Sorry! I can understand the tongue. Now I'm hooped, :) why the genitals? may not be the sharpest TITB, so can you please elaborate a little, "take up with the designer" who the h*ll is he? when he's at home.

Thanks.

[jer.lawrence]

Actually, the fastest healing spots on your body are your tongue and your genitals, in that order. Why, you'll have to take up with the designer.

I've been on diabetes therapy now for about 3 months. Initially I was given syringes (1/2" 29G), a vial of Lantus, and a Bayer Breeze2 meter that supplied a Microlet2 lancet device and Microlet lancets in the kit.

I haven't finished reading the rest of your post yet, but I just wanted to let you know that you should work on your transitions. haha. Imagining all sorts of goodies from the rest of your post that I'm hoping aren't actually there.

Edit: Whew! Thank god that these two paragraphs weren't part of the same thought.

[Bountyman]

"Sorry! I can understand the tongue...why the genitals...can you please elaborate a little?"

Darwin could probably explain it easier, but since he's dead, I'll take a stab at it. You'll notice in nature that only the strong survive and are selected to pass on their genes as are the adaptive, like man. In order to survive as a species you need only three things; environment, reproduction, and food. The maintenance of those three factors will designate how long your species lasts.

You probably know that when the human body becomes hot or cold it responds, accordingly, to preserve itself. That's an example of environmental adaptivity. Nature provides simple and complex life with a "season" for reproduction. In the more complex life forms the males fight over the females to preserve the stronger strain of genes, or, the female is provided with a "choice". I've witnessed this several times on a Friday night at the bar, at closing time.

If you'd like some empirical evidence for yourself you can have someone punch you in the eye and then kick you in the crotch...see which one heals first. We could compare personal notes. :D

[art]

Tongue and genitals.
Un NO not a viable alternate site.

So I have little black spots on my finger tips

Art

[Bountyman]

Oh c'mon, Art! There's a rash of sissy-*** girls runnin' around with jewlery stuck through their tongues and private parts just for fun. Be the man...:D

[jer.lawrence]

Oh c'mon, Art! There's a rash of sissy-*** girls runnin' around with jewlery stuck through their tongues and private parts just for fun. Be the man...:DHehe, you first. :T

[buddy7]

Darwin could probably explain it easier, but since he's dead, I'll take a stab at it. You'll notice in nature that only the strong survive and are selected to pass on their genes as are the adaptive, like man. In order to survive as a species you need only three things; environment, reproduction, and food. The maintenance of those three factors will designate how long your species lasts.

You probably know that when the human body becomes hot or cold it responds, accordingly, to preserve itself. That's an example of environmental adaptivity. Nature provides simple and complex life with a "season" for reproduction. In the more complex life forms the males fight over the females to preserve the stronger strain of genes, or, the female is provided with a "choice". I've witnessed this several times on a Friday night at the bar, at closing time.

If you'd like some empirical evidence for yourself you can have someone punch you in the eye and then kick you in the crotch...see which one heals first. We could compare personal notes. :D

Thanks for the explanation Bountyman! can't say I've read much on Charles Darwin's modern evolutionary theory, however your points, I'll say has some credence.

However! It'll take some getting use too to have someone punch you in the eye, and then kick you in the crotch, in today's world, with-out some formed of retaliation to follow, in order to prove a point or a theory, any which way this can be painful, however see the point you're making. :D :D.

Put it this way, as an animal we're born instinctively to exert ones domination to fight over the female. As history will have it, I see no change.

Thanks for the response.

[Bountyman]

"Put it this way, as an animal we're born instinctively to exert ones domination to fight over the female. As history will have it, I see no change."

It would seem quite the divine humor if man had the sexual orientations of the animals. A woman in heat would come and rub up against you at your work station and you'd take her right there on the desk. When you were finished she would politely slap you and you'd both be back to typing, and filing, and sorting, and whatever else it is one does in their cubicle.

As intelligent as we might think we are as humans...I've woken up on several Sunday mornings next to some f'ugly women I could swear must have broken into my house and crept into bed with me. :eek:

[Searchy]

I have little black dots on my fingers, but they're going away. I think they're from the beginning when I used to have to hammer my finger to get blood to come out. I've only used my left hand cause I'm not coordinated enough to stab my right with my lancet and then pick up my meter and test with my left hand.


I've noticed that it's getting easier (only 3 weeks in) ... I used to have my lancet dialed up the hardest setting when I first started, not I have it set to the easiest one and I just have to give my finger a little squeeze and there is enough to to test.

[buddy7]

As intelligent as we might think we are as humans...I've woken up on several Sunday mornings next to some f'ugly women I could swear must have broken into my house and crept into bed with me. :eek:

Just to endorse my last post to you, at no time we must elude ourselves we're not animals, a prime example of that animal instinctive behaviour just got the better of you, our species seems to fall into this category from time to time, it happens to the best of us humans. (animals):D A study I picked some where! probably won't make any sense, but here we go.

Many animals show particular instinctive behaviors only during the mating season, when hormonal changes associated with sexual behavior sensitize specific portions of the central nervous system, which will then be active in the presence of the releaser.

And the next day you'll probably say to yourself what the f**k that's all about. S*X my friend!!! Noted from your profile, we're the same age, far too old for this s**t, ( you're never too old)!!! :D :D

In all honesty my friend we've just lost the plot complete on this thread, but your reply was quite interesting, nice to talk to you again. :)