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2 more Animas Inset 30 infusion sets wasted figuring out how they work despite practising on 2 with DSN and watching videos.
2 on top of that wasted: "Negative... impacted on the surface" as a great X-wing pilot once said. Luckily I checked and felt rather than saw that the canula was just on the surface. Second DKA in two weeks would not have been fun.
The needle is a behemoth and for the first time in 20 years makes me think I should get a needle clipper and a sharps bin for the safety of everyone around me.
The insertion method seems to involve waving it at my body and casting runes to see what angle it will go in at. If at all.
So on about my sixth attempt I finally got one to go in. Three hours later I feel a little twinge. An hour after that the clear plastic inspection window over the canula is full of blood.
Suffice to say I am going back to the 90 degree entry Inset II. It is a marvel of modern engineering by comparison. Despite giving an infection the size of a credit card. (Why can I use a CGM sensor canula for 2 weeks without incident, but a pump canula is trying to kill me after 4 days?)
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2 on top of that wasted: "Negative... impacted on the surface" as a great X-wing pilot once said. Luckily I checked and felt rather than saw that the canula was just on the surface. Second DKA in two weeks would not have been fun.
The needle is a behemoth and for the first time in 20 years makes me think I should get a needle clipper and a sharps bin for the safety of everyone around me.
The insertion method seems to involve waving it at my body and casting runes to see what angle it will go in at. If at all.
So on about my sixth attempt I finally got one to go in. Three hours later I feel a little twinge. An hour after that the clear plastic inspection window over the canula is full of blood.
Suffice to say I am going back to the 90 degree entry Inset II. It is a marvel of modern engineering by comparison. Despite giving an infection the size of a credit card. (Why can I use a CGM sensor canula for 2 weeks without incident, but a pump canula is trying to kill me after 4 days?)
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