Re: Bruise from insulin?

On 10/29/2011 1:42 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
Tiger Lily wrote:
On 10/29/2011 8:09 AM, W. Baker wrote:
Tim Shoppa<shoppa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 29, 3:14?am, "Julie Bove"<julieb...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Then at dinner that night I shot my Humalog. ?This time it hurt
even worse. I found myself hunched over and gripping the table.
?It hurt that bad. Angela looked under my shirt and said there
was blood. ?My mom said perhaps I had shot into the same spot. ?I
know you are not supposed to do this, and I don't try to shoot
into the same spot but... ?Really... ?How would you remember
where you shot last? ?It's not like there is normally a mark left
there. ?Or not on me there isn't.

Bruises and gushers aren't incredibly rare, I've had them many many
times over the years (and stains on my clothes to prove it.)

Colloquially I call it "hitting a vein" but not sure that term is
justified. Maybe it is.

It's very easy to fall into a pattern of using the same good old
sites over and over again.

When I was a kid, I had a little shot-rotation workbook/chart and
the docs always asked about site rotation at every appointment, and
pointed out "look you're overusing this area why don't you try this
other area instead". This seemed to be pretty standard stuff 30 or
40 years ago but I don't see much emphasis on it today.

Tim.

25 years ago, when I was first diagnosed and on insulin, I also was
instructe dto use a rottation pattern. In those days we shhot into
arms, legs adn stomaches, so I went round the body.

Wendy

ditto
you can also purchase a 'rotation template' that has pieces for
upper/lower abdomen and leg front leg side and buttocks

i don't recall if they had the upper arm template as i don't like
using the upper arm........... maybe with the pen...... never thought
of that before, all the issues i had with syringes would be fixed
with the pen........ hmmm....... new rotation site available again!

Wouldn't work for me as I can only do the stomach.


well, that would be easy to fix, just use the template for your stomach!!
.

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    ... upper/lower abdomen and leg front leg side and buttocks ... i don't recall if they had the upper arm template as i don't like ... Wouldn't work for me as I can only do the stomach. ...
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  • Re: Bruise from insulin?
    ... the docs always asked about site rotation at every appointment, ... arms, legs adn stomaches, so I went round the body. ... upper/lower abdomen and leg front leg side and buttocks ... i don't recall if they had the upper arm template as i don't like ...
    (alt.support.diabetes)