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- Type of diabetes
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Hello Diabuddies! How are you?
I would to ask has anyone on MDI encountered painful injection sites? I do rotate my sites, however sometimes when I pick a spot to inject, the needle barely pierces the skin and I get a rush of pain. If I would to push the needle to inject, it would hit into a hard spot. I think I do have some hard areas that never really went away. If I had to rate the pain out of 10, it’d be 11.
Is there a solution? Is it worth mentioning it again to my new diabetes team? My new consultant did say use some moisturiser to get a good feel around to check for lumps. In the past everytime my previous diabetes team asked and I said yes, they weren’t able to give me any advice. I also did avoid that area for a number of years and it doesn’t feel like it has healed. Which is strange, right?
I usually don’t inject arms because that’s quite painful and muscly and apparently DSN in the past said to avoid arms. so I usually do belly rim area, buttocks and upper outer thighs and theres where I encounter the painful spots.
I would to ask has anyone on MDI encountered painful injection sites? I do rotate my sites, however sometimes when I pick a spot to inject, the needle barely pierces the skin and I get a rush of pain. If I would to push the needle to inject, it would hit into a hard spot. I think I do have some hard areas that never really went away. If I had to rate the pain out of 10, it’d be 11.
Is there a solution? Is it worth mentioning it again to my new diabetes team? My new consultant did say use some moisturiser to get a good feel around to check for lumps. In the past everytime my previous diabetes team asked and I said yes, they weren’t able to give me any advice. I also did avoid that area for a number of years and it doesn’t feel like it has healed. Which is strange, right?
I usually don’t inject arms because that’s quite painful and muscly and apparently DSN in the past said to avoid arms. so I usually do belly rim area, buttocks and upper outer thighs and theres where I encounter the painful spots.