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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi everyone.
So yesterday a weird thing happened. I measured my BG before going to bed (6.2 mmol), injected myself with 9 units of lantus, had a little snack (a slice of bread) and wanted to go to bed. However, rougly 30 minutes later I felt that something was wrong and when I measured my BG it was 2.4. I had read about people accidentally injecting insulin into a vein and then getting the effects immediately as opposed to a slower release.
I then gulped tons of sugar water and my BG rose to roughly 8.5 during the next 20-30 minutes, stayed there for a while and then eventually settled on a whopping 16 a few hours later (I got up in the middle of the night to test and I obviously overdid it with the sugar).
Needless to say I'm quite shaken as this has been my biggest fear - injecting into a vein and than having my BG fall rapidly to dangerous levels.
So my question is - based on what I describe here, do you think I really injected Lantus into a vein? I inject into my stomach area as it is accessible and has more fat than my things. Has anything similar ever happened to anyone else here? And lastly is there a way to decrease the possibility something like this is going to happen?
So yesterday a weird thing happened. I measured my BG before going to bed (6.2 mmol), injected myself with 9 units of lantus, had a little snack (a slice of bread) and wanted to go to bed. However, rougly 30 minutes later I felt that something was wrong and when I measured my BG it was 2.4. I had read about people accidentally injecting insulin into a vein and then getting the effects immediately as opposed to a slower release.
I then gulped tons of sugar water and my BG rose to roughly 8.5 during the next 20-30 minutes, stayed there for a while and then eventually settled on a whopping 16 a few hours later (I got up in the middle of the night to test and I obviously overdid it with the sugar).
Needless to say I'm quite shaken as this has been my biggest fear - injecting into a vein and than having my BG fall rapidly to dangerous levels.
So my question is - based on what I describe here, do you think I really injected Lantus into a vein? I inject into my stomach area as it is accessible and has more fat than my things. Has anything similar ever happened to anyone else here? And lastly is there a way to decrease the possibility something like this is going to happen?