Pregnant, type 2 and new to injecting. Advice needed.

[Kephgrave]

Hiya,
I've been a t2 for about 5 years and its been very poorly managed, thanks to hardly any help from nurses who told me i had it, gave me some tablets and told me to eat healthy. Mate.
So now im pregnant and injecting. 31 weeks.
Been on abasaglar for about 5 months and thats fine, always injected on my tummy, rotating from left to right and became pretty confident with it.
But just started on fiasp, injecting in my thighs atm, breakfast right thigh, dinner left. My left i seem to hit little blood vessles a lot more and its starting to freak me out and upset me esp as i think i also need to up my dose.....any advice would be brilliant.

 

[Ljc]

Hello , welcome to the forum.
We all get bleeds from time to time but they shouldn’t be regular. Sometimes it’s the needles, what brand are you using and what length, I find 4 mm is best . It may be that a change if brand will help, I know it did me. I now use BD microfine 4mm
I do find that certain areas on my thighs are more prone to bleeding.

I will look for a diagram of injection sites as their are others you can use.

 

[Ljc]

The reference to speed is how quickly the Insulin is absorbed in that area. If you wish to inject both insulin’s into the same general area, you can.

 

[Ljc]

Just remembered , I found that by not pouching I get less bleeds.