[soso]

I always have my apple and cottage cheese with cream for bf, but as it was a long weekend I got up late at 9am ...thought I would push the boat out and have toast.. first my lantus in my thigh...oooouuccchhh... pain...
then have 3 u of rapid in my opposite hip... ###@@**** another ouchy ouch! tuck into my 30g worth of sprouted wholemeal.. yuck... butter tastes rancid.. start over... very tasty... fast forward 2 hrs... horrified to see 9.6 on my meter!
Have another 2 u, buzz around doing all sorts, go out for lunch.. order a half of bitter and a tuna salad.. test... 3.4... oh well, the beer will fix it.. then 2 more units another half of beer, food pretty good...easy dog walk.. get home test 3.2.. blech blech blech... a third of an orange, cook up and mash the dogfood, 5.1 before dinner... cannot be BOTHERED, so have wine and cheese and no insulin..
flaming exhausted and they claim it's a holiday..

about one in three shots really hurt recently...
rant over.. thanks for listening...

[morrisma]

Sorry you needed to rant but we understand.

Not sure why your shots hurt though. Is it the needle stick or the insulin getting injected that hurts? Neither should but looking for different solutions depending on which it is.

There's always tomorrow...
Mike

[soso]

Thanks Mike, todays shots did not hurt...some days (like all I guess) I just get so balled off with it. Can't stand the way I feel when I get the swinging bg like that.. Gary Scheiner mentions 'despair' as one of the symptoms of a hypo in his book and I think that's what they do for me.. I realize those hypo's are pretty tame (thank teapot) but if I get multiples in a day..oy..

The needle hurts plus the insulin going in burns like crazy and the area hurts for about 15 mins after..... used to be just once in a while, getting more frequent... thought perhaps I had just hit a nerve now I wonder? it is usually if am not on the fattiest parts, but I am not really thin anywhere... my thighs hurt the most, but hips and now tummy seem to be doing it too.. Also if I feel along my torso rib area, all the tissue feels granular and bumpy if I press it against my ribs.
I try to rotate my shots as much as I can and don't think I have concentrated on that area..

[morrisma]

I pump now and have done for 6 or so years but can remember only a handful of times in 10 years of needles where the injection hurt. And I re-used needles often without any problems.

The only applicable reference I could find online was a suggestion to make sure the insulin was room temp before using it.

Insulin allergies are usually associated with pork sources and tend to have rash-like symptoms rather than injection pain.

Have you tried using oblique angles rather than straight in?
Mike

[soso]

Thanks for looking that up Mike... I do go straight in, I will try the angle... I have always had the stinging ouchy on certain shots, I do use it at room temp and it's more burning stinging than that cold feeling.. Occasionally it is a blunt needle I think, but it feels bit more like my nerves are really tuned in to the pain.. I am not in the least phobic about the shots, but I notice I am starting to hesitate a little because of it .. Come to think if it my finger pricks are bothering me more too..
Don't have any rash, though I've always said Novorapid made me feel a little funny when I first take the shot (about 15 mins later a buzzy head)
I did have allergy testing (unrelated) a couple of yrs ago and I think the doc tested insulin, just in case.. no allergies at all.

I do suffer from pretty bad facial neuralgia, which is easily set off, hope this isn't a similar complaint...eek!
J

[Janlaton]

Hope putting it all into print helped. I don't use insulin but know how I feel when my needs do not do what they are supposed to!

[soso]

Hahahah Janlaton... I love your footnote! I will try to remember that on my bedevilled days....
J

[lottadata]

Maybe you hit a nerve, or maybe something has your nerves in the area oversensitized so they are hyperreactive.

If that's the case, switch to a different body part for a while.

Another trick that helps me is to lightly tap the area where I'm going to inject with the needle before I push it in. If I feel something I choose another spot. This really helped me.

I don't go in at an angle, but I do use a very thin very short needle. Originally the imbecile diabetes nurse at my doctor's practice prescribed a huge railroad spike for me which might have been useful to someone with two inches of body fat and the hide of a rhino, but was horrible for me.

After reading Dr. Bernstein's chapter on needles, I asked for a short thin needle (which the imbecile nurse had never heard of!) and that made a huge difference. I currently use the 31 gauge 5/8" needed and the syringe with 1/2 unit markings since I use small doses.

[soso]

I try to use diff areas every day, I am using a fine short needle, had to pull out this am, as it was another ouchy.. tapping it is a good idea thanks... I used to think I hit a nerve, but it is happening a bit too often now..