Bums and cannulas

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randomange said:
Yeah, those are the Inset IIs, and I agree, they are quite stiff. I have found that the Inset 30s are much, much better in that way. Hope you find something that works 🙂
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Thank you, fingers crossed postie will deliver tomorrow for me. 🙂 Set change is due Friday so will try one then.
 
randomange said:
Hi Sue, I use pretty much everywhere for sites - tum, legs, arms, love handles and bum!

I swap between inset II's and inset 30's, but it's more a comfort thing than because I've had issues with absorption. I usually use Inset 30's on my bum and arms, and Inset II's everywhere else. Personally, I haven't noticed any differences with absorption between areas.

When I first wanted to try the Inset 30's (I started on Inset II's only) I gave Animas a call and they sent me out a couple to try, could you do that? Maybe ask if they have any other options while you're asking?
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I don't know whether you'll see this as it's 3 years down the line but I've just started using Inset 30s and I just cannot see how you put them in and hold the clear window when you're inserting into your backside or back of hip? So far I can only put them on my front somewhere! How do you manage it?
 
jgordon5 said:
I don't know whether you'll see this as it's 3 years down the line but I've just started using Inset 30s and I just cannot see how you put them in and hold the clear window when you're inserting into your backside or back of hip? So far I can only put them on my front somewhere! How do you manage it?
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You have to be a contortionist 😉
I've given up on the 30's altogether. I use the comfort shorts instead and just use my tum.
 
Oh! :( Why did you give up on the Inset 30s? After 3 or 4 bent ones I've finally got one in successfully so I'm quite enthusiastic about them at the moment!
 
jgordon5 said:
Oh! :( Why did you give up on the Inset 30s? After 3 or 4 bent ones I've finally got one in successfully so I'm quite enthusiastic about them at the moment!
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Mainly the cost of them compared to the comforts and I actually hated the noise they made as they fired in. The comforts can go in at whatever angle I want as well. Once I found out the costs I just swopped over as it saves the CCG about £30/ box of 10 cannulas.
 
Thanks, I did order some last week as I was worried about wasting the Inset IIs and 30s - they all went in ok but then BGs started soaring and when I removed them, the cannulas were bent over. All bar one of the group of new pumpers I trained with have had the same problems withthese cannulas and the DSN suggested Comfort Shorts. My only concern is manually inserting such a long needle. I'm assuming you manage that without too much discomfort? Thanks again for your help. It's very easy to feel totally incompetent with cannulas when you start on a pump!!
 
@jgordon5 I actually prefer the comfort shorts as can put them in at whatever speed I want and in all honesty they are more comfortable to insert as well. Animas are normally very good at giving out samples so you can try the different cannulas.
 
Pumper_Sue said:
@jgordon5 I actually prefer the comfort shorts as can put them in at whatever speed I want and in all honesty they are more comfortable to insert as well. Animas are normally very good at giving out samples so you can try the different cannulas.
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Are you quite relaxed when you insert? I'm not the calmest person in the world and using the inserters does make my heart speed up a bit so hopefully I'll find the comfort shorts easier and more comfortable too. I hope so - I'd like to save the CCG unnecessary expense too.
 
jgordon5 said:
Are you quite relaxed when you insert? I'm not the calmest person in the world and using the inserters does make my heart speed up a bit so hopefully I'll find the comfort shorts easier and more comfortable too. I hope so - I'd like to save the CCG unnecessary expense too.
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I've been pumping for almost 9 years so am used to it 🙂 I'm also one of the many with 50 + years of diabetes so as a child I had to use large steel needles (harpoons).

When you try the shorts do make sure you remove the needle guard before you insert the needle into yourself. It's a small blue tube.
 
That sounds awful - harpoons! I'm old enough to have been put in an isolation hospital for having scarlet fever when I was young and that's where I developed a needle phobia! I overcame that pretty well with MDI because I only had 4mm needles but this is why I have to work at being relaxed with needles. It's a wonder you didn't have a needle phobia .....
Thanks for the tip, I did insert an Inset II with the needle guard still on. 🙂
 
I sometime put mine in mine. Although I can't very often due to the last couple of times trying it doesn't deliver or bends. Maybe it is the size of the canular
 
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