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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1963105" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>Humalog also acts faster when injected into muscle (like quite a bit faster - I have longer needles to do intramuscular injections when required for precisely that reason). However, intramuscular injections are likely to be more painful than subcutaneous injections, which may be what you are experiencing. In my experience pain happens more often with intramuscular.</p><p></p><p>If you have very low body fat, which it sounds as though you do, and every time you inject, it goes intramuscular, then you'll see that faster effect, which is why timing comes into play.</p><p></p><p>What pinching does is to aggregate the subcutaneous fat into where you are going to inject and it should make the injection less painful and hopefully less aggressive. </p><p></p><p>On the "Why does it bleed question?" that's a bit more tricky. If almost every injection you do is bleeding, I assume it's linked to the reduced body fat and the way your capillary network is affected by that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 1963105, member: 30007"] Humalog also acts faster when injected into muscle (like quite a bit faster - I have longer needles to do intramuscular injections when required for precisely that reason). However, intramuscular injections are likely to be more painful than subcutaneous injections, which may be what you are experiencing. In my experience pain happens more often with intramuscular. If you have very low body fat, which it sounds as though you do, and every time you inject, it goes intramuscular, then you'll see that faster effect, which is why timing comes into play. What pinching does is to aggregate the subcutaneous fat into where you are going to inject and it should make the injection less painful and hopefully less aggressive. On the "Why does it bleed question?" that's a bit more tricky. If almost every injection you do is bleeding, I assume it's linked to the reduced body fat and the way your capillary network is affected by that. [/QUOTE]
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