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09-10-2006, 09:45 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
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| | I stopped using alcohol swabs years ago.  Good hand washing for bg finger sticks, but my belly really isn't out for the world to see so I don't believe it gets dirty enough to warrant using a swab on it. LOL |
09-10-2006, 10:56 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,831
| | | I doubt it is the clothing that is causing your higher numbers.
I don't inject through clothing because I don't like blood spots on my clothes. |
09-11-2006, 07:57 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,299
| | | Been checking since I posted this:
1. When I inject through my shirt or pants, I run 15/.8 to 30/1.6 higher than if I inject into bare skin
B. This has been the pattern since I started injecting through clothes
Thirdly. This is true even if I keep the needle in for an extra 10 seconds
I'm thinking that when I inject through clothes that I tend to push the needle in too far, whereas, when I inject into bare skin, the needle cap barely touches the skin, if at all.
Course, this could also have something to do with Tounge Placement Phenomenon or the Moons of Saturn Effect
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09-11-2006, 10:10 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Posts: 206
| | | Don't you guys worry about hitting a vein? When I was on injections if I hit a vein I would bleed......
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09-11-2006, 12:29 PM
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Posts: 412
| | | have never injected through clothes, incase of a bleeder.
I have never used alcohol swabs, and am new to injecting. I 'thought' that they weren't encouraged as they can irritate the skin and make it hard (i could have just made that up though?)
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diagnosed: feb 2000
using: lantus and novorapid
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previous HbA1c:5.6% April 2007
previous HbA1c: 6.2% Febuary 2007
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09-11-2006, 01:01 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 151
| | | I figure if they teach U.S. Air Force pilots to inject through clothing as part of their survival training, then it's good enough for me! Have used that "technique" for most of my 33 years as a diabetic -- NO alcohol swab first -- even reuse my syringe (or pen needle). NEVER a problem, infection or otherwise. It's a great "quality of life" technique. One caveat, however: I probably wouldn't inject through my clothes if I had just cleaned out the septic tank... |
09-11-2006, 03:12 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
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One caveat, however: I probably wouldn't inject through my clothes if I had just cleaned out the septic tank...
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Where's your sense of Thrill?
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09-11-2006, 04:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellevue, WA
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Originally Posted by poper77 Don't you guys worry about hitting a vein? When I was on injections if I hit a vein I would bleed...... | I don't inject through clothing and that's why. It already happens often enough with the blood vessels I can't see, so why would I want to take chances with the ones I can eliminate by sight? (I have a really small ribcage, so my theory as to why I hit one so often is that I have a normal number of blood vessels; they're just closer together on me.) YMMV, of course.
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09-11-2006, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by poper77 Don't you guys worry about hitting a vein? When I was on injections if I hit a vein I would bleed...... | I wish I had veins like yours when I go for my blood work... |
09-11-2006, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by rzrbks Where's your sense of Thrill? | It was replaced by my sense of Smell... |
09-11-2006, 07:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: SE Michigan
Posts: 175
| | I have not used alcohol in many years. I inject through my shirts and change my Apidra OptiClik needle only in the mornings. I do have to use a new needle for my Levemir as that crystalizes and plugs up the needle after one use. I have never had an infection or any kind of problem from doing that. I do change my lancet every morning. I guess I'm an oddball for doing that! If I should get a bleeder I find that peroxide usually works good to clean it off my shirt.
Liz from Michigan |
09-12-2006, 12:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
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poper77
Don't you guys worry about hitting a vein? When I was on injections if I hit a vein I would bleed......
| I just tell everyone that I have proof that my wife abuses me. 
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10-06-2006, 09:53 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 53
| | | I purchased Diabetes For Dummies by Alan L. Rubin, MD a few months ago and he said its ok to inject through your clothes.
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10-06-2006, 10:04 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,485
| | | For new diabetics you might want to consider injecting through you clothing after 1 year of diabetes. The first 6 months are bad enough for some. Getting used to injections is not easy. For people like Kevin and I we never got the chance to notice, but for those that I know newly diagnosed they often are still very, very sensitive to injections and bruise and rarely will get infections. Once your body builds up to taking and defending against stabs solidly it might be then the best time to start if you are going to. |
07-04-2007, 04:21 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Tennessee
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| | | Hi.. about injecting through my clothes, I've never heard of that. Even in public. I always wear something i can raise to get to my upper abdoman and i use the alcohol swab too. then inject. I dunno if i could do it through my clothes!!! Yikes .. I've been injecting 4 to 5 years. WOW learn something new everyday....Saphire
Last edited by saphire : 07-04-2007 at 04:22 PM.
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