Bleeding after injecting insulin

Ixarix · Oct 17, 2017

Thanks for the responses they've been helpful and reassuring. It is easy to get into panic mode over small things if you don't have a lot of experience with them.

een1968 · Oct 18, 2017

I have been diabetic now for nearly 20 years and this also happens to me sometimes. You need to rotate injection sites and make sure you change your needles as blunt needles will also cause bleeding/ bruising. If your still worried talk to your diabetes team.

Dodo · Oct 24, 2017

Ixarix said:
Thanks for the responses they've been helpful and reassuring. It is easy to get into panic mode over small things if you don't have a lot of experience with them.

Injecting for over 50 years and still sometimes draw a little blood but never worry about it.

Wowsap18482 · Oct 27, 2017

Same here sometimes I bleed a tiny amount after taking the needle out of where I injected myself with insulin

Ray 37 · May 20, 2020

karen8967 said:
This happens to me from time to time also i have a little row of bruises across my stomach but its nothing to worry about what i find with the lantus though is that it stings .yet my apidra doesnt .

Ray 37 · May 20, 2020

Yea i thought i was doing my insulin wrong it was a small dot of blood i wipe and cleaned it but im new to taking insulin im glaf its jus 10mg i gotta take but its a struggle i git anxiety i have to calm myself down before i inject myself

spendercat · Jun 23, 2021

Thanks for this discussion. It reassured me .

Jea Lopez · Apr 16, 2023

Ixarix said:
Hi, tonight after injecting my insulin, I'm using lantus at the moment, I started bleed after I removed the needle. I may have put the needle a bit deep, I was using a site on my stomach. This hasn't happened before. I'm still new to treating my diabetes, it has only been three or four weeks now since diagnosis , and am concerned that some of the insulin may have leaked out while I was bleeding. I put a Kleenex over the site immediately and stopped the bleeding so hopefully most of it stayed in. I know enough not give myself a second dose. Any advice?

i am who is injecting insulin to my mom and i injected on her thigh. A little blood leak out and im kinda panicking because it never happened too. but based on the replies i guess it is not that alarming.

becca59 · Apr 17, 2023

Jea Lopez said:
i am who is injecting insulin to my mom and i injected on her thigh. A little blood leak out and im kinda panicking because it never happened too. but based on the replies i guess it is not that alarming.

Not alarming, perfectly normal, happens to me regularly. Sometimes followed by bruising. A small capillary has been hit.

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