[Cormac_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Lizzie G

i see from your signature you're losing weight, is that helping at all with the volumes required? its so weird how different (but fundamentally flawed!!!) we all are. that must be a nightmare to travel carrying so much. and the actual injections - it must take forever to go in, do you do it IV or something? wow.

4 or 5 bolus injections, each with 50 units of Novo (3 or 4 times a day)

2 or 3 basal injections, each with 75 units of Lantus (2 times a day)

Means that I inject myself 16-25 times a day ... I basically map out a clock-face on my stomach and rotate around it several times A DAY ... and injecting that often means that it is regularly sore, and often triggers bruising ... I always have two or three bruises in various states of repair from red to black/blue to yellow ... my stomach is like an impressionist's nightmare

Been discussing getting a pump ... but at the moment it's all pen-based ... I use at least 2-3 pens of Novo and 1 pen of lantus every day!

[Lizzie G]

wow, thats crazy...i get the odd nasty one on my tummy but nothing like that. mind you, i was showing off my bruises this morning to a friend and noticed there are hundreds of nasty little red scars that look like i have been attacked by a plague of insects or something! i also inject quite a bit but for the opposite reason, im so sensitive to insulin im scared of putting too much in. a couple of weeks ago i had 2 slices of toast and 1.5 units of novorapid, and a massive hypo! (well, 2.9 which is massive for me). crazy how we are all made from the same materials yet our bodies behave so differently!