I use the tenderlink 13mm 45 degree teflon angle sets and self insert
Several reasons why I chose this route..
The whimp excuses
The metal 90degree sets, I was put of from there whanger thingy, as it went of with a hell of a clank to fire the sets in... Put me right off the thought of having something lituary fired into me, reminded me of nail gun!
Also yes I could self insert, but alas, this also felt that I was stabbing myself, didn't like this notion at all :lol:
The senseable reasons...
I'm very skinny so haven't got much of a fat layer to insert the cannular into, using the 90 degree angle ment that I increased the likelyhood of the cannular touching the underlaying muscle kinking it not good.. Tends to play advoc with blood glucose levels
With the tenderlinks, you can self insert at an angle so could get it to lay along/above the muscle lessen the risk of kinking, the teflon cannular is naturally less likely to kink as it quite flexable...
Another bonus, the recommended length of time before changing sites, the metal it's 48 hours, for the tenderlinks 72 hours...
So far I've been pleased with my choice, and only had one ommedtion, caused by the sets/tubing in two years not bad going, I have a couple of time had the alarm go off during a bolus, but realised that my set was under my waistband, the pressure of the waistband against the infusion set, had stopped flow, losen waistband problem solved...
A advantage that I enjoy with self insertion, is that I am in total control, if at any point it hurts (rare occcasions) I can stop and resite etc... One piece of kit to remember/carry around with you, have you seen the size of the whanger thingy.. I hate using an hand bag at the best of times, but given the option of lugging hand bag around or a ruck sack it have to be the hand bag best of a bad choice...
neededthat it seems that you may not be the only whimp about :lol: