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Given jip for injecting?

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Just been thinking, anyone had any negative experiences injecting in public?
Can't say i've done it that much, but no one has mistaken me for an opium fiend yet.
 
yes a now ex boyfriend when out for a meal when i said i need to take my insulin said "cant you do it in toilet people will think you are a junkie"
Needless to say that relationship was ended after that
 
There is a difference between what we do & the practices regarding the public interpretation on what & where an abuser injects.
 
Once in France I had the needle in my abdomen and I looked over at the table next on the banquette to see a chap doing exactly the same! We smiled at each other! Been on a pump now for years so it is easy peasy.. just press a few buttons on a handset.
 
I’ve honestly never noticed anyone else injecting at the table (apart from when eating with my T1 brother!), so I assume that no-one else has noticed me!
 
Like @Satan’s little helper the only notice taken of me injecting when on MDI was from someone on the next table doing the same. We smiled and also conferred on carbs as we had the same meal. People rarely noticed me inject as I just did it and got on with meal.
 
Just the one I remember while out with my student hall group when someone (a middle aged woman) at another table in a restaurant told me they had a needle phobia to which I responded that I had a phobia of dying and that she could always avert her eyes for 1min.

I was injecting in my shoulder so it was pretty obvious, but really I was quite amused that she felt she needed to say anything at all and especially that she needed to get my attention to tell me what I was doing to offend her. I hope she enjoyed her meal 😉
 
Not had any jip as such personally, but if I'm with people I don't know so well, will always ask if anyone is scared of needles just in case it upsets them
 
We have had some members very occasionally report negative reactions in public places, but it seems to be horrified looks rather than anything more significant (or people simply being worried about a negative reaction, rather than actually experiencing one). I *think* there may have been one or two cases of workplaces mking a fuss, and having to be made aware of the Equality Act.

Forum members always counsel those newly diagnosed to simply discretely inject where they are, and never being made to feel like they have to go somewhere else (and certainly not into a toilet!).

There are a few more dramatic cases in the media from time to time, which are usually reported with varying degrees of terrible and/or hilarious errors/inaccuracies “blah has to inject with an epipen to prevent glucose levels going too low after food” etc etc.
 
That’s one advantage of being on a pump, people don’t know what you are doing!
 
I think there is a huge difference between injecting in public and injecting publicly.
I sat opposite a colleague for years, injecting at my desk and he didn't know I had diabetes because I didn't make a scene when injecting.

No one has ever given me jip although there are times when I have to be careful such as injecting near boisterous kids who may knock my pen, or when wearing a dress, I couldn't inject discretely.
 
Never had any negative experiences. Like others I don’t make a fuss of it and inject discretely at the restaurant (or wherever) table. Only ever had a comment “Oh, you’re diabetic?” from someone at the same table when in a group of friends. I have never felt forced to go into the toilet to inject and would never entertain doing so.
 
helli said:
No one has ever given me jip although there are times when I have to be careful such as injecting near boisterous kids who may knock my pen, or when wearing a dress, I couldn't inject discretely.
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A couple of times at things like work events that have been standing up nibbling and drinking type things I’ve just said to someone could you stand there a minute and not move, to create a barrier to do my jab without worrying about being knocked etc. no one ever minds doing that for me.
 
I only had to inject for about eight months after my diagnosis. While out and about I would inject in my tum and it was easy to be discreet. I also had a nice case for my pens and finger prick testing stuff, I don't expect that your average junkie is so well organised. This thread suggests that people are both better informed and less judgmental than everyone was assuming.
 
I got hassle in a restaurant once I got the novorapid out and a needle and put it on the table. Idiot on next table called me a bleeping junkie. So I just discretely did my bolus through my shirt (not going to argue its a no no) and put the kit away. Idiot complained to a waiter he got the manager and idiot asked to leave. Manager has a type 1 chef so understood. Once on a train I did a bolus and explained it is a hormone not drugs he was OK after.
 
Tezzz said:
I got hassle in a restaurant once I got the novorapid out and a needle and put it on the table. Idiot on next table called me a bleeping junkie. So I just discretely did my bolus through my shirt (not going to argue its a no no) and put the kit away. Idiot complained to a waiter he got the manager and idiot asked to leave. Manager has a type 1 chef so understood. Once on a train I did a bolus and explained it is a hormone not drugs he was OK after.
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Sorry you experienced that incident. Most people don’t even notice us injecting (and yes I suspect a lot of us have gone through tights/shirts/… when we have no access to bare flesh).
 
That's so bad :(. I was at a company dinner, discreetly and quickly injected into my thigh when I noticed the woman on the next seat was staring and announced that I had made her feel very queasy. I ended up apologising when I really wanted to say 'you shouldn't have been watching me!'
 
I've never had any bother injecting in public and this is after 58 years.
I suppose the most unlikely place is injecting just over the finish line at Parkrun!
To explain. I can start at less than 5 and 5k and 23 minutes later it can be as high as 13 and going up rapidly.
 
I had a problem once in a cafe. Very irritating woman who shouted “do you have to do that at the table?”. Very easily fixed I simply said yes and carried on. She continued to make a fuss for a bit then ran out of steam. Not a single other issue in 11 years.

I do have a friend who feels like she has to mention the word insulin a lot. I think she’s scared someone will think I’m a junkie. Makes me chuckle mostly.

If I’m ever worried that there might be a needle phobe at the table I generally announce that an injection is about to happen so now is the time to look away. Then I sound the all clear when it’s done (I have a needle phobe in my close circle of friends).
 
I know my dad is squeamish about seeing the injections (I can't blame him, I used to be the same), so sometimes if there is not much to block the view I warn him in case he wants to look away. A couple of times when we have been eating out he's made some comment and said it's not about him, but it may bother other people 🙄 I point out I don't care if they see me, and generally, no one is even looking. Love my dad but that's a little thing that irritates me.

I never had any issues with strangers. One time I was having dinner with friends of a friend and started doing my injection as discreetly as I could. The girl sitting by my side realised and said out loud "wow, you are just injecting, you didn't say nothing!" (not in a complain or judgy tone but more as a surprise) and the girl on the other side "ooh, I didn't even realise!". I was like "well, yeah, I didn't mean to bring attention to it 😳:D ". Obviously all the table was aware after that!
 
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