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<blockquote data-quote="Snapsy" data-source="post: 1112019" data-attributes="member: 265172"><p>Being left-handed my absolute favourite spot for injecting was the right hand side of my tummy. I found very quickly once I started on a pump that this was a really bad place to have my cannula - there was so much scar tissue in there that the cannula would just leak insulin because my tummy couldn't take it in.</p><p></p><p>I now site my cannula on the back right or back left of my spare tyre - it seemed utterly mad to have it there when it was suggested to me, as for instance I'd never have injected there when on MDI, but I've had no problems at all and I find absorption is the same with each cannula change.</p><p></p><p>With hindsight I should have figured that decades of injections favouring a particular area (I did rotate but would most often use my 'favourite' area) would have been having an adverse effect on the tissue beneath my skin - but with no actual outward sign of hyperlipotrophy it hadn't occurred to me.</p><p></p><p>Spare tyre cannula siting also means that my pump hosepipe isn't in the way, and I'm less likely to knock it or accidentally 'wipe' it off when towelling off after a shower or swim.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snapsy, post: 1112019, member: 265172"] Being left-handed my absolute favourite spot for injecting was the right hand side of my tummy. I found very quickly once I started on a pump that this was a really bad place to have my cannula - there was so much scar tissue in there that the cannula would just leak insulin because my tummy couldn't take it in. I now site my cannula on the back right or back left of my spare tyre - it seemed utterly mad to have it there when it was suggested to me, as for instance I'd never have injected there when on MDI, but I've had no problems at all and I find absorption is the same with each cannula change. With hindsight I should have figured that decades of injections favouring a particular area (I did rotate but would most often use my 'favourite' area) would have been having an adverse effect on the tissue beneath my skin - but with no actual outward sign of hyperlipotrophy it hadn't occurred to me. Spare tyre cannula siting also means that my pump hosepipe isn't in the way, and I'm less likely to knock it or accidentally 'wipe' it off when towelling off after a shower or swim. [/QUOTE]
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