Hi I am a needle phobia and have to inject 4 times a day, I can't even watch a film of someone else having an injection let alone on my self.
I have tried the SQ pen and hated it, the pressure needed to fire the system of was way to hard, which meant that the insulin would arrive in the muscle not in the subcutaneous fat level. In fact I tried it against an apple, work surface and skin and it wouldn't fire off, I sent it back for recalibration and returned the same.
Even the nurse that demonstrated it couldn't use it properly and couldn't get it to fire!
They are not that small a device either, and work on a spring bases to fire the insulin in, I was also told that you have to account for extra insulin as the delivery system injected less than what was on the dial.
This was about 5-6 months ago, I went back to the standard pens in the end. Gave it up as a bad job, they sound great, look fine, but I and a couple of others that went on to it found it more trouble than it was worth. I was told that bruising occurred due to the impact of insulin, can't verify either way as I could never get the thing to fire off on flesh, just kept pushing the skin against muscle and never fired.
Sorry to rain on anyones parade, but I have heard nothing good about them apart from on this forum, and my own experience with the pen was as good as a "chocolate kettle". In the end I'm sure they will get it right, but until they do, it wasn't for me.
I also looked at the inhaler system to and was given a talk on this possibility, this to is still early days and the effects of being on it did not outweigh the benefits.
Be interested in other actual user experiences as to how they got the pen to work against the skin and force needed.
ATB