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I saw one..! A real "Live" "Other" diabetic person!

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It's an eternal debate it seems 🙄 If I had asthma people wouldn't expect me to leave the table to use my inhaler. Anyway, getting back on topic, how would we recognise a fellow diabetic if they all secreted themselves away to test and inject? 🙂
 
Northerner said:
It's an eternal debate it seems 🙄 If I had asthma people wouldn't expect me to leave the table to use my inhaler. Anyway, getting back on topic, how would we recognise a fellow diabetic if they all secreted themselves away to test and inject? 🙂
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keep a look out for people with lots of holes in their fingers.
 
Northerner said:
It's an eternal debate it seems 🙄 If I had asthma people wouldn't expect me to leave the table to use my inhaler. Anyway, getting back on topic, how would we recognise a fellow diabetic if they all secreted themselves away to test and inject? 🙂
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I know, I read this article on Facebook http://www.diabetes.co.uk/insulin/injecting-insulin-in-public.html

Personally I think we should be able to inject in public (why should we hide? We ain't done anything wrong) & my child DSN said never to inject in the toilets as they aren't hygienic.
 
That's happened to me once Mossey but I got stroppy and insisted on speaking to the manager. Once I explained, she gave the waiter a row and told me her staff would be given sensitivity training. I got a free meal out of it too. That's the only time I've had any trouble from anyone over injecting at the table, and I've since seen a woman in there injecting her youngster before he ate, no-one batted an eye.

I won't use toilets to inject and flatly refuse even to consider it, they may seem clean but the very idea makes me feel queasy.
 
Slightly off topic I know but I had a cannula fail at my son's birthday party recently at a softplay centre...normally I'd be fairly assertive about the right to test & inject discretely without having to hide in the loos but no way jose was I going to do a set change with the linkassist (if you have one you'll know what I mean lol!) in public - didn't want traumatised kids on my conscience lol (& that's just down to the state of my tummy, never mind the size of the introducer needle hehe 😱 :D. I went & hid in the baby change room which had spacd for putting bags & down...the random fun of D! 🙄
 
Twitchy said:
Slightly off topic I know but I had a cannula fail at my son's birthday party recently at a softplay centre...normally I'd be fairly assertive about the right to test & inject discretely without having to hide in the loos but no way jose was I going to do a set change with the linkassist (if you have one you'll know what I mean lol!) in public - didn't want traumatised kids on my conscience lol (& that's just down to the state of my tummy, never mind the size of the introducer needle hehe 😱 :D. I went & hid in the baby change room which had spacd for putting bags & down...the random fun of D! 🙄
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😱 twitchy, that's just worried me about how you get them in & how bad it is.
How big is the pump kit?
 
Sorry, didn't mean to scare anyone! I'm just a wimp lol...I'm just using up my stock of 8mm teflon cannulas - the inserter needle protrudes maybe a few mm beyond that - all looks far scarier (to me anyway! 😱) than the old little pen needles but most of the time you don't feel a thing. As with jabs you occasionally hit a spot that really tests your ability not to swear, but that's rare. Just looks scary lol...
 
Oh and the link assist thingy is just a spring loaded device that fires the cannula into you so you don'g hesistate & end up kinking the cannula on insertion...againt looks a bit medieaval but does the job! :D
 
Twitchy said:
Sorry, didn't mean to scare anyone! I'm just a wimp lol...I'm just using up my stock of 8mm teflon cannulas - the inserter needle protrudes maybe a few mm beyond that - all looks far scarier (to me anyway! 😱) than the old little pen needles but most of the time you don't feel a thing. As with jabs you occasionally hit a spot that really tests your ability not to swear, but that's rare. Just looks scary lol...
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It's probably me coz I really want to see all the kit (I'm an egar to start pumper)
 
It's funny though, I never used to get hung up over the mechanics of injections (the inaccuracy used to really annoy me!!!) but I find the set changes more of an issue...I think my tum being a mess is the main reason maybe?! The 6mm cannulas are far better though, I like those...just trying to be brave & use up all my 8mm's! 😱 :D
 
Not sure about videos - the Roche website is pretty pants from memory, the pump is fab (I honestly do love mine) but I don't know if they are worried about the ideas being pinched or something?! 🙄

And honestly, if I've worried anyone please don't be worried - did I mention I'm a wimp?! 😉😱
 
Twitchy said:
Not sure about videos - the Roche website is pretty pants from memory, the pump is fab (I honestly do love mine) but I don't know if they are worried about the ideas being pinched or something?! 🙄

And honestly, if I've worried anyone please don't be worried - did I mention I'm a wimp?! 😉😱
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I've looked but I can't see a video but I am on my phone.
The pictures don't look scary tho but it's of the one I think you do manually

Not worried as such, just as I said in my message to you am worried about the condition of my skin & how well the cannular would go in
 
I've had a look on you tube and can only find French ones like this one....

http://youtu.be/zs_t1MjLyaM

This shows you the set and inserter thing that I use

I just muted it lol
 
sacol4940 said:
I've had a look on you tube and can only find French ones like this one....

http://youtu.be/zs_t1MjLyaM

This shows you the set and inserter thing that I use

I just muted it lol
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Thank you Sarah.

Ok that looks cool, I didn't know what the lady said but it's not what I imagined you did
 
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