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12-07-2004, 02:11 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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| | | Injections not good?
Anybody else have trouble with injecting through their clothes?
It seems that whenever I inject through clothes ( shirt, pants,> whatever) there is always some insulin that dribbles out of the needle when I withdraw it. And, thusly, my B/Gs are higher after that meal/snack. I never have that problem when injecting into bare skin, however, no matter what injection site I use. and I do leave the needle in longer when injecting through the material.
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12-07-2004, 02:25 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
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| | | I have only injected through clothing twice and that was by accident. I managed to bend the needle pretty good when I unknowingly suck the needle through my underwear. I bleed pretty often when I take an injection so my shirts and pants would probably be kind of a bloody mess if I were to do that.
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12-07-2004, 02:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Gales... Rain... Sleet... Snow.. you name it, I've got it! (UK peep!)
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| | I have tht problem to but it is not only when I inject through clothing, I also sometimes get it when I inject into bare skin. I also find that my sugars rise after the meal.
I have always been told to hold the plunger (or what ever ppl call it) down for about 6 secs to make sure that all the insulin goes through the needle, but even doing this I still have some insulin coming back out when i remove the needle.
lg, how you manage to inject through clothes by accident? 
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12-07-2004, 02:39 PM
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| | | Oops, forgot to mention that the plunger on the InDuo gets locked down so there can't be a "Back-up" of insulin.
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12-07-2004, 05:26 PM
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| | | you inject through your clothes? i'd never trust my needle to go through material! |
12-07-2004, 06:47 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Manitoba, Canada
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| | | I cannot inject through my clothes it makes me too nervous lol. I also leak insulin a lot of the time so doing it through clothes is not a good idea for me. |
12-08-2004, 09:37 AM
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| | | While I know some who do, I do believe I'll stop injecting through clothing.
Thanks for the responses.
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12-08-2004, 10:31 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Savannah, GA USA
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| | | You know, through 16 years of MDI, before my pump, I never injected through my clothes. Never really tried, to be honest. I was always too thin to jab in the stomach or thigh so I used my arms for all 16 years. Luckily I don't have too many knots in them from this. |
12-08-2004, 11:27 AM
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| | | Meech- Wow! You've jabbed yourself in the arm? Where? (I am trying to picture the logistics and it's difficult to imagine a good spot!) I am a stomach person myself.
I've never really thought about going through my clothes... doesn't seem like a good idea for a variety of reasons. |
12-08-2004, 12:05 PM
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| | | Actually I used to use a little injector thingy. (thingy) yeah, I think that was the correct technical term for it, lol. It's called the Injectease-100 by B-D. I still carry it with a couple of syringes in case my pump goes crazy and I need to inject. I think it cost me about 18 American, when I bought it. You can set it to gauge the depth that the needle goes into the skin. I had it set for 1/4"(7.3mm) and that made it easier to inject into the upper arm. Worked out well for me. |
12-08-2004, 12:19 PM
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I've never really thought about going through my clothes... doesn't seem like a good idea for a variety of reasons.
| Well, sometimes, I really don't want to Dazzle people with my physical Excellence and just whip up my shirt.
I just hate it when people are awed by my physical magnificence, giving them complexes and all. ROTFL
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12-08-2004, 12:51 PM
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| | | Yes, I have that same problem... nothing like seeing someone whip out a hand full of belly-fat at a nice restaurant!
It's all about the button-up shirts. Jab right in the space between buttons... almost like going through clothing - but without going through clothing. |
12-08-2004, 01:29 PM
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| | I have to say i think ive done like once in my 23 years , and i dont really like it when it happens bends the needle and so forth and yes it leaks all over your clothes and i have to say insulin smells  |
12-08-2004, 02:15 PM
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| | | Bac4uw, if you look at the back of the upper arm, there is a small area there between 2 muscle groups that has a little bit of fat or skin. You can inject the needle there and I've found it rarely hurts unless I get it into one of the muscles. When I first stared injecting there, I would lean against a corner and push the spot up to make the little "fatty" area easier to inject into. After I got used to it, I found I didn't have to do that any more. I do inject it at an angle to make sure it doesn't go into the muscle. The fat, or skin is not very thick there.
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August 18, 1990 - May 3, 2006
Say you'll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
Lead me, save me
from my solitude . . .
Say you want me
with you ,
here beside you . . .
Anywhere you go
let me go to . . .
Christine,
that's all I ask of . . .
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12-08-2004, 02:29 PM
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| | | while on MDI I never once injected through my clothes...didn't know that was an option.
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