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Bad batch??

Robyn@29

Robyn@29

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Location
London, Sidcup
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
So yesterday I spotted quite a large lump on the inside of my thigh where I inject my levemir, I know to rotate injection sights and I thought it had been, but it's about 2/3 inches long by an inch. So this morning I injected in the other leg on the outside of my thigh, just noticed there's quite a big lump there too now... can I be reacting to it?
Can you become allergic/intolerant to levemir or could it just be a bad batch?? :S
any advice would be greatly appreciated :D
 
Hi @Robyn@29 . Happy new year. Lumps for the new year, what a ******.
Don't use levemir myself but have experienced lumps after injecting.
Have the lumps gone down now? If not that may indicate a problem with the insulin.
How much insulin did you inject? Anything over 20 units can cause problems and lumps. It can help to split larger injections into 2 separate injections.
Do you use a new needle with your injections? Obviously used needles will be blunt and could also be infected.
What size needles do you use?
What injection technique do you use? Some people pinch the skin prior to injecting others don't.

Whenever I get a lump it goes within the day and I just put it down to bad luck, it could be you've been unlucky twice.
If the problem persists then definitely try a new batch of insulin, after that consider needle size and injection technique and have a talk to a DSN.
Have your BS readings been ok since the lumps?
 
therower said:
Hi @Robyn@29 . Happy new year. Lumps for the new year, what a ******.
Don't use levemir myself but have experienced lumps after injecting.
Have the lumps gone down now? If not that may indicate a problem with the insulin.
How much insulin did you inject? Anything over 20 units can cause problems and lumps. It can help to split larger injections into 2 separate injections.
Do you use a new needle with your injections? Obviously used needles will be blunt and could also be infected.
What size needles do you use?
What injection technique do you use? Some people pinch the skin prior to injecting others don't.

Whenever I get a lump it goes within the day and I just put it down to bad luck, it could be you've been unlucky twice.
If the problem persists then definitely try a new batch of insulin, after that consider needle size and injection technique and have a talk to a DSN.
Have your BS readings been ok since the lumps?
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Hi, happy new year to you too

I inject 16am and pm, I use 5mm needles and I do pinch the flesh around the site. :S i try and inject as perpendicularly as I can. The first lump I noticed two nights ago and it's still here, bit smaller but still here then last night I noticed a lump where I'd injected in the morning, again I can still feel it, but it's not as big. And yh I have noticed my levels going up :( guess it's literally a store of insulin in my skin :S gonna ask if maybe I need longer needles. I changed pens last night, incase it was a "bad batch" and so far no sign of a lump where I injected last night... :)
 
@Robyn@29 . Hopefully you won't get any more lumps. So much of the time diabetes has the ability to throw a spanner in the works without any warning. Sometimes as individuals we just have to do things bespoke to ourselves, I've only ever had lumps from injecting when I inject the front top half of my thighs, doesn't stop me using the sites but I'm not surprised if I get a lump.
If you continue to get lumps definitely talk to your DSN.
Good luck
 
therower said:
@Robyn@29 . Hopefully you won't get any more lumps. So much of the time diabetes has the ability to throw a spanner in the works without any warning. Sometimes as individuals we just have to do things bespoke to ourselves, I've only ever had lumps from injecting when I inject the front top half of my thighs, doesn't stop me using the sites but I'm not surprised if I get a lump.
If you continue to get lumps definitely talk to your DSN.
Good luck
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Thank you. I will :)
 
Robyn@29 said:
Hi all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
So yesterday I spotted quite a large lump on the inside of my thigh where I inject my levemir, I know to rotate injection sights and I thought it had been, but it's about 2/3 inches long by an inch.
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Happy New Year @Robyn@29

As far as I'm aware your not meant to inject insulin into the inner thigh, it's the outer thigh area you use as the following diagram shows:

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http://www.bd.com/us/diabetes/page.aspx?cat=7001&id=7261


Sure it's something to do with the blood vessels and nerves that run down the inner thighs.
 
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