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Testing Marks on Fingers

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insulinaddict

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Type of diabetes
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Hi! I would like to ask you all for some advice on the little dots that are left behind on your fingers after you have tested your blood sugar. The fingers from which I test most regularly are covered in them little blood dots, left behind by the lancet/ needle. I'm sure you are all familiar to these too! I would love to know if you have any tips on how to treat them, how to soothe them or how to get rid of them completely. Is there anything you do personally? Are there any good creams or moisturisers out there that you have used for your own?

Many thanks for reading and (hopefully) replying!

Emily x
 
I'd be interested too. I'm T2, but I do test regularly, and tend to use one finger. It's now got a tattoo pattern all over it. (Maybe I should concentrate on trying to draw a smilie face?)
 
douglas99 said:
I'd be interested too. I'm T2, but I do test regularly, and tend to use one finger. It's now got a tattoo pattern all over it. (Maybe I should concentrate on trying to draw a smilie face?)
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hahaha, I understand what you mean! Is there anything that you've tried before? I remember once when I was admitted into hospital with a stomach bug and a really lovely nurse bathed my fingers everyday! So lovely!
 
Dibbles1 said:
I use Argan Oil on my hands and forearms, also my feet and lower legs.
I don't have the dots you mention though, although the skin on my fingers does feel a little rough if I forget to use the oil at night.
Debs
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Thankyou for the advice, perhaps I should give it a go! Do you think any regular hand moisturiser would work? x
 
It's never really worried me, and I never really though about anything on it in case it altered the reading when it was absorbed into my skin.
I suppose I could use my other hand, and try a moisturiser during the break?.
 
douglas99 said:
It's never really worried me, and I never really though about anything on it in case it altered the reading when it was absorbed into my skin.
I suppose I could use my other hand, and try a moisturiser during the break?.
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Yes, it might work. It just seems that I've used countless creams and the dots have never gone away! I suppose it as to be expected when puncturing the skin; it's just that as soon as one heals, another is formed! Inevitable I suppose x
 
Detective checking prints at the scene of a crime ... it's that diabetic gang again!
 
I've decided.
I spend so much time lifting toilets, cleaning sewers, pulling cables under splintering floorboards, pulling carpet off gripper rods around toilet pans, (uughhh!) generally sticking things I don't want to stick into my fingers, I am going for a diabetes smilie face, tattooed onto my third finger on my left hand.
Unless insulinaddict can help me find the answer.
Watch this space.
 
No answers, I do try and rotate from side to side on my fingers, and not just do my favourite ones (it was the dots that told me which was the favourite) - also with time the scar tissue build up does make it harder to get blood out of those areas (I am talking like the really small 1/2cm diameter that I tend to use all the time) - so I did wonder whether just spreading it out a bit so you give fingers more of a healing chance might help.
 
I moisturise my hands 6 or 7 times a day but those dots are persistent little *******!
 
I try to use all fingers and as wide an area as I can. Turning the pricker round in the case reminds me to use the other hand as well. But I still have scar tissue on the first three fingers of left hand which I guess is down to lack of variation or discipline.
 
Bio oil is fantastic for all marks it complety got rid of my child's chicken pox scars helps reduce stretch marks acne scars so maybe ....fingers scars ?its about 14 quid in boots but they have cheaper options of the product about .
 
Just googled it 5.73 in tesco and it's for scars amongst other things .
 
Moisturising is good advice, also make sure you use a new lancet (if possible) and set the lancer on the lowest setting (but enough to draw blood).
 
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