A couple of times now my morning basal must've hit a vein.
Gives a bit of a nightmare day.
Tresiba
@Zinadane What's your injection technique ? Do you have much fat around your abdomen ?
Also how do you know when you've hit a vein ? Sorry if that sounds a silly question, are you going low soon after and it's difficult getting levels up etc
Mad rush of low for 2-3 hours, with no backroung left for remaining day, having to constant top-up with fiasp, with rapid up-down swings.
Well for me Tresiba is the flattest most easygoing basal around.Have you considered changing basal? eg levemir??? ( I know it's an issue for lantus).
Yeah, I’m pretty skinny and catching a vein was extremely rare for me as long as I pinched the site.I don't think it matters what basal and tresiba is fine as long as it works well in general.
Have you tried pinching the flesh before injecting - my rule has always been pinch an inch and inject, but you're drawing the fattest part of the flesh out to inject in, if you can't pinch an inch then find another area you can do this, so butt, thigh, etc, the principle is that the insulin is being delivered to the subcutaneous area and is pulling the fatty tissue away from muscle and you're less likely to hit a vein so much safer doing it this way.
When I was diagnosed in the 70s, we were told to inject at an angle of 45 degrees. In the 80s we were shown a video showing us how to inject properly at 90 degrees. Have they changed it back or do you do 45 - 60 degrees because you are very slim?4mm bd microfine (best needles I know)
Find a decent looking patch, go in firm at approx 45-60 degrees, press, wait withdraw.
Mad rush of low for 2-3 hours, with no backroung left for remaining day, having to constant top-up with fiasp, with rapid up-down swings.
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