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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted Account" data-source="post: 1775290"><p>Sorry to read about your problems. </p><p>I have a few thoughts</p><p></p><p>- you say you have redness "around the cannula site". I think someone else experienced something similar and worked out it was caused by the alcohol wipes they were using: nothing to do with the cannula. Are you using any wipes to clean the area before inserting the cannula. </p><p>- Do you rotate your sites? You say the sites feel hard which suggests you may be returning to the same site and building up scar tissue. Have you tried inserting your cannula somewhere else such as on your back or upper thigh?</p><p>- If you try daily cannula changes, do you need to change your cartridge? It is certainly possible for my pump (Animas Vibe ... no longer available) to just change the cartridge or just the cannula (although I change them in parallel).</p><p>- How do you remove your cannula? When I was younger, the way to remove plasters was always a quick yank. But nowadays, that does not seem to be the way to do it - a slow gentle tug with lots of water (e.g. in the shower) seems to reduce the chances of welts appearing from the stickiness.</p><p></p><p>Or it may be a problem with the amount of insulin as you suggest. </p><p>Or is may be something else - I wait with baited breath to learn from the pump gurus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted Account, post: 1775290"] Sorry to read about your problems. I have a few thoughts - you say you have redness "around the cannula site". I think someone else experienced something similar and worked out it was caused by the alcohol wipes they were using: nothing to do with the cannula. Are you using any wipes to clean the area before inserting the cannula. - Do you rotate your sites? You say the sites feel hard which suggests you may be returning to the same site and building up scar tissue. Have you tried inserting your cannula somewhere else such as on your back or upper thigh? - If you try daily cannula changes, do you need to change your cartridge? It is certainly possible for my pump (Animas Vibe ... no longer available) to just change the cartridge or just the cannula (although I change them in parallel). - How do you remove your cannula? When I was younger, the way to remove plasters was always a quick yank. But nowadays, that does not seem to be the way to do it - a slow gentle tug with lots of water (e.g. in the shower) seems to reduce the chances of welts appearing from the stickiness. Or it may be a problem with the amount of insulin as you suggest. Or is may be something else - I wait with baited breath to learn from the pump gurus. [/QUOTE]
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