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Just wondering if anyone can share their experiences with changing injection areas from say abdomen to thigh.
I recently reattempted using my thighs as my primary injection site. Injecting my fast acting insulin seems to have no effect whatsoever, I can inject 2x the dosage I would use in my abdomen and even 4 hours later I would see no drop in blood sugar. Has anyone had this happen?
My basal injection into thigh seems to work slightly I am using 3x my abdominal dosage it slows down the rise in my fasting sugars but they inevitably keep climbing, using anymore than 3x my dosage to try and plateua the rise in sugars appears to have such diminishing returns that even a 5x dosage does not yield any better results.
Same goes for the rapid acting in my tricep region but I have very little fat there so I haven't bothered trying the long acting insulin there.
I did a 4 hour fasting check on my rapid thigh inj and a 10 hour fasting check on my long acting thigh inj. I could probably inject whole pens and see little difference.
So if you have any advice or anecdotes about your experiences I'd love to hear them
Omar.
I recently reattempted using my thighs as my primary injection site. Injecting my fast acting insulin seems to have no effect whatsoever, I can inject 2x the dosage I would use in my abdomen and even 4 hours later I would see no drop in blood sugar. Has anyone had this happen?
My basal injection into thigh seems to work slightly I am using 3x my abdominal dosage it slows down the rise in my fasting sugars but they inevitably keep climbing, using anymore than 3x my dosage to try and plateua the rise in sugars appears to have such diminishing returns that even a 5x dosage does not yield any better results.
Same goes for the rapid acting in my tricep region but I have very little fat there so I haven't bothered trying the long acting insulin there.
I did a 4 hour fasting check on my rapid thigh inj and a 10 hour fasting check on my long acting thigh inj. I could probably inject whole pens and see little difference.
So if you have any advice or anecdotes about your experiences I'd love to hear them
Omar.