Fwd: [Diabetes_And_Byetta] Hello Everyone, Sandra
Hi Sandra,
I was getting bruises on my stomach. It is because you hit a nerve.
It was very upsetting to me and actually freaked me out. Just knowing
I am bruising myself and I usually do not bruise easily. I was giving
the injections in my arm too. It seems normal to give an injection in
your arm because we either got it in the rump…lol or the arm and I
remember asking for the arm….lol Sometimes it is not bad and then
sometimes it pinches.
I did do injections in the stomach and then stopped the insulin back in
December. I got a message from Barry in UK and he made so much sense
of you studying the area, hesitating before injecting etc. He was
right. I started using my stomach area again and it is so much better
than the arm. If I am out in a restaurant or somewhere else I do take
my shot in the arm. A pinch versus having to go to bathroom to do my
stomach.
When I started using my stomach area again I started getting bruises
again. I went out to dinner a couple times and found that when I stand
(bathroom stall) and inject my stomach area, It did not hurt, I was not
thinking about the bruises. So, now when I am home, I stand and give
myself all my injections. 3 humalog, 2 byetta, and 1 lantus a day. I
have since not gotten ANY BRUISING. I am overweight, yes in the
stomach area. I can’t explain why I am not bruising than the
difference in standing and sitting. Maybe, the fatty stomach is spread
more when standing and tighter when sitting. All I know is that I have
not gotten a bruise in the last month. I am not sure if it is just me,
but may be worth a try.
Dale
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September 19th, 2004 at 2:05 am
Hi Dale,
Hopefully this does not come through twice as my other post vanished as I was
typing it.
I also inject while standing up and it works very well for me. I’m more likely
to bruise in the stomach area than the lower abdomen. The bruising is not
painful, however, it is rather like the type of bruising that happens when one
gets a smack between the eyes on the forehead and then the blood drains down
into the tissues around the eyes giving one the appearance of a racoon.
A bruise is caused by the seepage of blood into the surrounding tissues. The
color of the bruise is determined by the breakdown of the blood cells and their
reabsorbtion by the body and the size of the bruise is determined by size of the
vessel(s) injured and the trauma received. As a child protection worker one of
the things I had to learn was how the bruising started, developed, spread, and
dissapeared to determine what happened, what the size of the original trauma was
and how long ago it was. Nerves, on the other hand, cause us to feel things -
hot, cold, pain, pleasure, etc. Hitting a nerve can hurt and it is one of the
reasons that having control over the needle is important as I can tell
immediately if I need to withdraw and move over a tiny bit and therefore have
painless injections, but hitting a nerve won’t cause bruising.
Marsha
September 19th, 2004 at 9:32 am
ah……………………thanks for the clarification.
Dale
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