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Message: <blockquote data-quote="noblehead" data-source="post: 1159225" data-attributes="member: 11028">A bit strange, but you only have to do it every 3 days so not too bad.  The distinctive smell of insulin comes in handy when on a pump, if there's leakage at the cannula site it's absorbed into the adhesive, a couple of times my bg levels have gone high and its only after running my finger along the adhesive and smelling the finger have I found that there's been a cannula issue.Talking of smells, the surgical spirit that we stored the glass syringes in had an extremely strong smell,  what was worse you had to clean the skin with it prior to injecting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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