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07-24-2009, 05:07 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brazil
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| | | Humalog weird color
I was going to inject my humalog and noticed there were some weird reddish things floating around. I agitated it and it kind of became more homogeneous but was not totally transparent.
Has this happened to anyone else? What could it be?
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MDI - Lantus & Humalog
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07-24-2009, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Grunch  I was going to inject my humalog and noticed there were some weird reddish things floating around. I agitated it and it kind of became more homogeneous but was not totally transparent.
Has this happened to anyone else? What could it be? | Is it expired?
Is it a cartridge?
If so, I wonder if it might be a bit of the rubber stopper that may have broken down for some reason.
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07-24-2009, 05:51 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Bucks County, PA, USA
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Originally Posted by Grunch I was going to inject my humalog and noticed there were some weird reddish things floating around. I agitated it and it kind of became more homogeneous but was not totally transparent.
Has this happened to anyone else? What could it be? | Blood maybe?????????
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07-24-2009, 05:52 PM
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| | | It's not expired.
It's one of those you put on the pen, not sure if it's called cartridge.
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07-24-2009, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Grunch It's not expired.
It's one of those you put on the pen, not sure if it's called cartridge. | Cartridge......
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Weird seed squeezer.
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07-24-2009, 06:15 PM
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| | Agree with owlyn -- it sounds like you accidentally got a drop of blood in there -- I don't know if that makes it bad to take or not 
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Amanda
misdiagnosed type 2 8/2007
rediagnosed type 1 8/2008
Pumping since 11/2008!!
Purple Minimed 722 named Barney
Other Meds:
Yaz
Elavil (10mg at night)
Metformin 1000mg 2x/day
a1c 8.3% 9/9/08  a1C 7.4 1/17/09 (better, as I stabilize) a1c 7.3 6/09 (frickin' IR) a1c 6.7 1/6/10 (FINALLY under 7!!! Now to try for under 6.5!)
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07-24-2009, 07:18 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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| | | if you re-use syringes/needle tips, I say blood... |
07-24-2009, 10:44 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: IL, USA
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| | | If the insulin looks at all 'weird' just don't use it. Get a fresh vial/cartridge.
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07-27-2009, 07:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: st-paul, quebec, canada
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| | | sounds like blood to me too... but also, could be anything that was on the tip of the needle tip that goes inside the cartridge... when you tear off the paper and then twist the pen tip onto it, perhaps there was something on the tip...
as for what to do now... dump it... it's contaminated with some unknown product or biological...
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