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Insulin absorption rate for the tongue

Wurst

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You guessed it , due to a headphone cable getting caught in my chair , I have injected bolus into my tongue. I pulled out the needle pretty quickly and only had 2 units selected in the pen. Rather painful and needless to say I will check my bloods over the next hour or so. Quite possibly the stupidest thing I've done this decade.

The insulin absorption rates are well documented for thighs, arms , buttocks etc etc but does anyone have any experience in the tongue area as an injection site ?
 
I'm sorry you'll just have to explain in a bit more detail how you came to inject in your TONGUE!!!? how the hell.........???!!

Well I think the tongue is one, if not, fasting repairing organs in the body.......

LOL I'm still trying to figure out how you managed it!
 
Its quite comical in hindsight. I prepared my pen i.e inserted and unsheathed the needle and selected 2 units. I then pushed back my office chair in order to reach my belly unobstructed. My headphone cable was entangled around the chair arm and the force of the movement pulled my head towards the open needle, Bizarrely I had my tongue out otherwise I would have injected into my lower lip :-(
 
If anything I would suggest based on the fact your tongue is full of blood and vessels that the absorption rate would be incredibly quick compared to any other body part.

I am also curious - how did you manage the tongue, and also ouch poor you..
 
As JuicyJ mentioned I also think it would be quite quick too. Would be interesting to know, How is your BG levels now?
 
slip said:
As JuicyJ mentioned I also think it would be quite quick too. Would be interesting to know, How is your BG levels now?
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Blood sugars are fine around the 5.5 mmol mark and I've checked 3-4 times since.

mahola said:
Was it painful? *Potential new injection site?*
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I bit my tongue whilst cycling earlier this week and that hurt a lot more :-0 Don't fancy using it as regular injection site though
 

I'm sorry, Wurst, but I can't stop laughing picturing this!


Does anyone else have experience of using the tongue as an injection site? Mmmm, my money's on '***! No!'.

I think you should hand over the results to your endo, though. I'm sure he/she can get a paper out of it.


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mahola said:
when I was first diagnosed I was curious about insulin. It smelt awful but obviously I had to taste it. It's VILE. It burnt my tongue and everything.
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Who's stupider? You for being curious, or me for just doing the same thing and also discovering that novorapid tastes disgusting?

I wonder if levemir is any better...
 
RuthW said:
I think you should hand over the results to your endo, though. I'm sure he/she can get a paper out of it.
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Will do , might have stumbled on a new treatment method !
 
Wurst said:
Will do , might have stumbled on a new treatment method !
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Sorry I don't care if it will cure my diabetes, I am NOT injecting in my tongue!.............wait............well may be, but I want solid 100% unmitigated scientific proof.
 
Still laughing at the image. I just know that this is now going to happen to me one day as a form of poetic justice.
 
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