Type one and lipohypertrophy

Looking back at your first post you were only diagnosed at the start of this year (is this correct?), if so I'm surprised you've got lipo problems in such a short space of time if you rotate your injection sites, what advise did the hospital team give?

Lipohypertrophy does not cause immediate lumps with each injection. It takes a long time to develop. If you are getting immediate lumps, you are probably injecting too fast. Did the doctor/nurse actually palpate the lumps, or just listen to your description?

RuthW said:

Lipohypertrophy does not cause immediate lumps with each injection. It takes a long time to develop. If you are getting immediate lumps, you are probably injecting too fast. Did the doctor/nurse actually palpate the lumps, or just listen to your description?

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How long does it take Ruth?

Tylers73 said:

Was diagnosed last July. I alternate sites all the time. Wherever I inject I get a lump small rash and itchy the hospital/nurses said its lipohypertrophy that's all know

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That sounds like your having a allergic reaction to the insulin rather than lipo issues

I'm having the same problems. I was only diagnosed in April. Xx

Tylers73 said:

Was diagnosed last July. I alternate sites all the time. Wherever I inject I get a lump small rash and itchy the hospital/nurses said its lipohypertrophy that's all know

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To the skilled person, lipohyperatrophy apparently feels rather like orange peel under the skin. I've been told that the best way to diagnose it is with ultrasound. What you have certainly doesn't fit the normal definition of lipohyperatrophy.

LucySW said:

How long does it take Ruth?

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I can't say exactly, of course, because as with every thing else in diabetes, everybody's different. But the less insulin you inject into a particular area, the less potential for lipohypertrophy. So if you take small doses and rotate your sites, you may never have significant lipohypertrophy. If you take large doses and don't rotate, it will show up in a couple of months. But it can be reversed to some extent.
In my own case, I have some lipohypertrophy (after 48 years of injections) but it is not significant enough to be visible to an untrained eye. It can be felt in some places. I really didn't rotate sites enough when I was a teenager.
But I think the OP may be having other problems, as others here are suggesting. The rash and so on is very different.

I used to get lumps occasionally when injecting Levemir into my thighs. Now I get them almost every time. When I inject elsewhere, I don't have any issues. Quite annoying. I have been injecting for less than a year.

Is there any special injection technique for thighs that could resolve this issue?