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Injecting
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trophywench
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Wonder what they say about what to do when you have very few sites that absorb on your tum? I have 3 places I can use on one side but they are all iffy on the opposite side, I've rested my whole tum consistently for about 5 years as yet. Fortunately I have a few on my bum, about 3 each side - I try not to have more sites there because I can't do any of them myself. If I were single I'd be stuffed, I think, as I keep asking my DSN (as I have for about 6 or 7 years already) and she has no suggestions, end of story.
Are you supposed to just take more and more insulin to counter it, like you do with insulin resistance, or what?
Are you supposed to just take more and more insulin to counter it, like you do with insulin resistance, or what?
mikeyB
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I have on occasion wondered if boobs would make a good injection site. Not having any, I've never tried it. It's certainly never suggested. Too many superficial veins? But then, accidental bruising wouldn't be a good look, or indeed easy to explain. This isn't a facetious suggestion, it's more of a query.
Lucy Honeychurch
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trophywench
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Well I can only speak as a B cup who tried it - once - with an unattached brand new needle and couldn't even stick a very short needle in any further than its very tip, and immediately took it out again and had to clutch whichever one it was for flippin ages. Sharp intake of breath and tears!
A LOT more painful than I could have imagined. I've had ruddy great needles stuck in, and literally scraped along my knee joint to get to the space the doc was aiming for - which did make me feel sick for a few minutes (the scraping along feeling) but wasn't actually painful, once the point was in me.
A LOT more painful than I could have imagined. I've had ruddy great needles stuck in, and literally scraped along my knee joint to get to the space the doc was aiming for - which did make me feel sick for a few minutes (the scraping along feeling) but wasn't actually painful, once the point was in me.
Lucy Honeychurch
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trophywench
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It was err, interesting.
This was in a clinic in Palma with a doc who didn't speak any English. He was busily withdrawing the blood from the mega internal bleed I caused yesterday and whistling a tune or trying to, as he proceeded. My whole leg was at least twice the diameter of the other one, and no longer bent in the middle. I stopped looking but he withdrew quite a lot of blood, he was unscrewing the thing attached to the end of the needle and depositing it in some receptacle on the work surface behind him, then re-attaching it and doing it again etc and which I couldn't and didn't wish to see. When he'd finished and taken the needle out, I opened my eyes and leaned up again on my elbows - at which point he grinned, got an enormous approx. 3 or 4L plastic measuring jug from behind him, and damnwell showed it me. ugh! Jug apparently c two thirds full and absolutely NO mistaking what the contents were and I know I pulled a right face - but anyway to just make sure this foreign bimbo understood, he held the jug aloft and pointed to it several times with the other hand, and announcing 'Sangre!' in a positively proud voice! I had to agree that it certainly was precisely what he identified it as and I doubt very much whether anyone over the age of 5 would have mistaken it for anything else. Under 5, well - you might have thought it was paint! LOL
I often casually think, cos I do get a bit of 'clicking' in that knee, not painful exactly but not comfortable, just goes weak on odd occasions when I stand up or get out of bed or something like that and obviously not 100% right - wonder if that little episode damaged it - or maybe it's just wear tear and old age. Would have to be the same leg where my intermittent claudication mainly shows it's ugly little head, wouldn't it?
Firmly encased in tight elastic bandage from foot to thigh, and issued with a smart pair of aluminium adjustable elbow crutches and I was discharged with instructions in English from the bilingual receptionist not to try and put weight on it for the next week LOL
That's how I did my shoulder of course, but that's another story entirely !
This was in a clinic in Palma with a doc who didn't speak any English. He was busily withdrawing the blood from the mega internal bleed I caused yesterday and whistling a tune or trying to, as he proceeded. My whole leg was at least twice the diameter of the other one, and no longer bent in the middle. I stopped looking but he withdrew quite a lot of blood, he was unscrewing the thing attached to the end of the needle and depositing it in some receptacle on the work surface behind him, then re-attaching it and doing it again etc and which I couldn't and didn't wish to see. When he'd finished and taken the needle out, I opened my eyes and leaned up again on my elbows - at which point he grinned, got an enormous approx. 3 or 4L plastic measuring jug from behind him, and damnwell showed it me. ugh! Jug apparently c two thirds full and absolutely NO mistaking what the contents were and I know I pulled a right face - but anyway to just make sure this foreign bimbo understood, he held the jug aloft and pointed to it several times with the other hand, and announcing 'Sangre!' in a positively proud voice! I had to agree that it certainly was precisely what he identified it as and I doubt very much whether anyone over the age of 5 would have mistaken it for anything else. Under 5, well - you might have thought it was paint! LOL
I often casually think, cos I do get a bit of 'clicking' in that knee, not painful exactly but not comfortable, just goes weak on odd occasions when I stand up or get out of bed or something like that and obviously not 100% right - wonder if that little episode damaged it - or maybe it's just wear tear and old age. Would have to be the same leg where my intermittent claudication mainly shows it's ugly little head, wouldn't it?
Firmly encased in tight elastic bandage from foot to thigh, and issued with a smart pair of aluminium adjustable elbow crutches and I was discharged with instructions in English from the bilingual receptionist not to try and put weight on it for the next week LOL
That's how I did my shoulder of course, but that's another story entirely !
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