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Bruising

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Yep - I agree with Northerner - and ask the pharmacy what the difference in price is ACTUALLY. Then get that amount of money and slap it on your (stupid) GPs desk ..... with the appropriate speech.

However LOL - can you not get your flippin consultant to intervene by sending a strong letter to the bloke telling him the danger he's putting your future in? It scares me SHITless wondering whatever I will do should I 'lose' many more sites that refuse to absorb properly, and that's the truth.
 
I used 8mm BD Microfines for 29 years. I would occasionally get bruises but it didn't really bother me as I saw it as just a war wound from diabetes. I switched to 4mm BD Microfines this year and guess what, yes, I still get the occasional bruise and yes, it still doesn't bother me. Now the lumps from lipohypertrophy are a different matter as they are much more of a concern for me.
 
Hi Rosie

I Had occasional bruises, which reduced when I switched to 4 mm BD Microfine. I was given Gluco needles on last prescription but got them switched back to BD Microfine after quite a few wasted and more bruising.
I just wrote to the practice manager and got switched back after some communication with the CCG.
 
Matt Cycle said:
I used 8mm BD Microfines for 29 years. I would occasionally get bruises but it didn't really bother me as I saw it as just a war wound from diabetes. I switched to 4mm BD Microfines this year and guess what, yes, I still get the occasional bruise and yes, it still doesn't bother me. Now the lumps from lipohypertrophy are a different matter as they are much more of a concern for me.
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I'm just awkward, me - I can't use BD needles - well I mean of course I can - but they ruddy well sting like hell ! I first realised this when they originally had to give me Ypsomed needles with my old Solostar Lantus pen - the fitting was different and the BD needles I had for Novorapid couldn't be used with that pen. Jabbing the Lantus pen in didn't hurt whatever, BUT stung like hell when I depressed the plunger - but exactly the opposite when I jabbed the Novorapid in - stung like hell -but pressing the plunger - felt nowt. So I requested a trial of Novofine needles (and had changed to Levemir anyway which didn't sting but the Ypsomed needles didn't fit) - and peace perfect peace !

Now on a pump I do very occasionally need to do a 'needle injection' so carry ordinary disposable syringes - and of course, they're BD ones. I hate it - cos they sting! LOL However since it isn't like X times a day every day - I can put up with it.

I'm glad I'm not alone being so concerned about skin damage Matt - that's why I positively blench when I hear about those like we've heard about on this thread damnwell pooh poohing someone's protestations that their skin is being damaged. You need your ruddy skin to last viably for the rest of your life when you rely on jabs in order to exist. Bit different to only needing a jab once in a blue moon.
 
I suspect they don't even consider it - I would be interested to learn how many GPs and practice nurses (and maybe some receptionists 😉) are aware of the potential risks from skin damage and comprehend the prospect of thousands upon thousands of injections. I've done roughly 12,000 injections since diagnosis, and probably have another 40-50 years of it (well, maybe 10, if that cure materialises 🙄), so need to take every possible step to preserve the integrity of my injection sites 🙂
 
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Soooo - multiply 12000 by 4.4 ....... LOL

The early years, mine was one a day, then 4 for ages, then 4 plus corrections, then 5, and since 2009, 1 every 2 days, with the odd once every 3 for whatever reason, plus the ones with no sticky and the other occasional failures - impossible to even start counting correctly, since I've no idea of the actual dates of any of this history! Plus of course - all that I have in future until I shuffle off me coil!

And Sue's had +20 or so years on top of my score - she was diagnosed age 3 but she isn't quite as ancient as moi - so she should have more of her life left to live than I, at the moment, too. OTOH she was on 2 jabs a day when I only had 1?

50,000 in a lifetime, as a rough guess?
 
I always think now I've had diabetes a reasonable while I must have had just loads of injections - millions...billions...trillions. Alright, alright I'm getting a bit carried away and it probably just feels like it. I had two a day for the first year and then I've had 4 a day for the next 30 so it works out at around 44000. Obviously there would be corrections and extras but also less the ones that I didn't have. It doesn't look that many really. Yes, more than most 'normal' people but not as many as it seems. When I go on the pump the rate will slow right down.
 
Me too, Matt. Quite looking forward to it.

I was just thinking, although lipohypertrophy can occur if you keep injecting in the same place, but how can the odd bit of bruising damage skin? If bruising damaged skin, how come boxers skins don't fall apart? Or Cricketers, footballers, hockey players? A bruise is a bruise. That is, of course, unless people with diabetes get special bruises. There's a research paper in that somewhere, but you might struggle for funding.😉
 
One occasionally doesn't alter a thing - but we're not talking about that - we're talking about frequent bruising here - which I personally have never ever had. But - I have got lipohypertrophy on both thighs and most of my tum, despite rotating. The thighs had huge hollows about 5ins diameter which appeared suddenly. The hollows have more or less gone now, only took about 14 or so years, but still no viable injection sites there. On my tum they are internal lumps and bumps. Being more personal than usual, most my tummy flesh now feels like my boobs almost always have - I think medics describe 'lumpy bumpy but perfectly normal breast tissue' as being 'granular' - if that helps you as a doc and in any case a bloke - who might have quite legitimately have felt any number of different breast tissue! LOL
 
mikeyB said:
I live in Scotland, and never take my shirt off in public.
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What about your thighs tho, MikeyB, when you're sporting a kilt?!🙄
 
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