Reply to Thread

Guest, we'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the Diabetes Forum Survey 2025 »

Message: <blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 94523" data-attributes="member: 8799">For people who are newish to diabetes and need to inject themselves everyday then of course as they start off, they want to do everything correct so inject directly into the skin using a fresh needle on a pen everytime.  For people who inject just twice/day that's fine but for those who use MDI and inject between 4-6 times/day, after a few years, it all starts to get to be a bit too much on the old skin as the same areas  are used all the time, even with rotating.  Like Janabelle, I also took to injecting through my clothes.  Not only could I go virtually anywhere on my body but the injection was completely painless and no one noticed what I was doing as they didn't see me lifting up a t-shirt sleeve etc.I'm not at all saying that people won't get an infection, but what I will say is that you have got to be very unlucky. As long as the cover is put on the needle after an injection (I hold mine between my teeth) and you use a new needle everyday, then people should be ok injecting through clothes.</blockquote>

Top Bottom