Dillinger
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- Type of diabetes
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- Celery.
I was hoping for more empirical information and candor on this forum, and less simple passing on of the conventional wisdom. Anyone have any real information?.
Here's some real information for you; stop being so bloody rude as it will put people off helping you. That information probably passess as conventional wisdom though so who knows what you are going to do with it?
Back to the arguments for changing needles; it's down to you but everyone who has to inject in the UK is able to get a new needle each time. Good stuff for the needle manufactures of course but as has been said because the design of these needles is for 1 use only they will degrade with each further use, probably much more dramatically, as @picklebean's pictures demonstrate, than the older needles some of us where used to...
I don't care about the infection risk as I've never had any infections when I used to change with each cartridge but it makes sense that with a finite amount of space to inject into you would want to keep that tissue in as good a shape as possible.
Obviously, needles get less sharp over use and especially if they are not designed to be resilient which these ones aren't and less sharp degraded needles are going to deliver insulin less effectively and cause more damage to the injection sites. How much? Who knows? But if I'm only injecting 1 unit of insulin it's important that that does what it's meant to do.
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Dillinger