Bruising
BRUISING: I have noticed quarter-sized bruises at each injection site.
Is that normal? Anything I need to report to doctor? I normally bruise
easily, so it didn’t bother me, but hubby is concerned.
CURVES: I am going on Mon, Wed and Fri to Curves. I can walk my
treadmill the days between. 3 times a week is PLENTY for me! It feels
good to be MOVING my body. I’ve been a couch potato for a while and
was starting to stiffen up.
FOOD: My appetite is WAY down. Half a salad for lunch. Only ate half
my fish sandwich at dinner last night. The food doesn’t make me feel
sick, I just don’t feel hungry.
July 14th, 2006 at 9:10 am
What gage needle are you using and what length? When you take the
needle out, is it
bent even a little. These needles are delicate and sometimes you need
to do it for a while.
I get a bruise on occasion. I know just when I will black and blue
because I didn’t put the
needle straight in.
Pam in NYC
July 15th, 2006 at 6:02 am
I am using a 3/16 short pen needle. The package says ultra fine. The
needle doesn’t hurt at all, but I have the little bruises at injection
sites. I am not too worried about it. As I said, I bruise very easily.
Another question…a lady my husband knows told him she re-uses her
needles. I’ve been using a new one every time.
Comments???
July 15th, 2006 at 11:31 am
On 3/8/07, ozarksampler wrote:
<< I am using a 3/16 short pen needle. The package says ultra fine. The
needle doesn’t hurt at all, but I have the little bruises at injection
sites. I am not too worried about it. As I said, I bruise very easily.
*Another question…a lady my husband knows told him she re-uses her
needles. I’ve been using a new one every time. Comments??? >>*
**
*I have a little bruising sometime at the injection site and it eventually
goes away - I would not worry about it. I do all my injections in my
abdomen and rotate from the left side to the right. It is easy to remember
as I do ‘rightie-nightie’ and then the left in the morning.*
**
*You will get all kinds of responses on the needles. My doctor told me, if
I wash my hands and the injection site (no alcohol) with soap and water, to
reuse them until they ‘dull’. I have that each one lasts 3-6 injections
before that happens - and I know because the last injection will not be as
comfortable. If you do this, be sure to visually inspect the needle to be
sure it is not bent at all.*
July 15th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
I use a new needle each time because I was told to do so by the nurse
who did the orientation on unsing Byetta. No need asking for trouble.
July 16th, 2006 at 6:09 am
Same here.
Melodie
–
Always with a smile,
Joan
July 16th, 2006 at 10:29 am
My neighbor’s DE told her she could use one needle twice with her pen,
and that is what I do. Start with a new one in the morning, remove it,
wrap it in tissue, and reuse it for my evening shoot. I have been doing
this for a few months with no problems and it does make the box of
needles last a little longer, which is nice.
I also shoot insulin with a syringe and those needles I use until they
get dull and hurt. I have been doing this for three years with no
problems. Just recap them, and be certain you are using the same needle
with the same insulin.
Jo in MN
chris blankenship wrote:
July 17th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Is there a difference between short needles and long ones?
Who uses each and comments on them please?
Rebecca
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The mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson
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July 17th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
I use the short ones too. I get bruises too. Look like I have chicken pox
sometimes! I reuse needles, but I AM finding the short pen ones not as
efficient and need to be changed more often.
Rebecca
–
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a
hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at
the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it
was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone
before.
– Jacob A. Riis
July 17th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
When my doctor prescribed the Byetta (a month ago) he gave me a "starter"
package in his office which contained a video tape, written material and a small
bag of five needles. The needles were "BD Ultra-Fine III" 3/16" (5mm) length and
31 gauge. When I filled the scrip he gave me I got home and saw they were "BD
Ultra-Fine (no III)" 1/2" (12.7mm) and 29 gauge.
I could have sworn his script said 31 gauge but the bigger needles didn’t hurt
any more than the 31 gauge, so I didn’t question it. However over the last month
I’ve lost 13 pounds and my stomach muscles seem to have hardened a bit (from the
sit-ups I guess/hope!) even though I still have quite a sizable belly. A few
days ago I had a needle that hurt in the belly and I got a bruise, the only one
so far. And this mornings shot hurt so much I had to pull it out almost
immediately! But no bruise so far. I haven’t tried giving the shot anywhere
else.
Rich
Is there a difference between short needles and long ones?
Who uses each and comments on them please?
Rebecca
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The mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson
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July 18th, 2006 at 8:18 am
On 3/9/07, rebecca wrote:
<< Is there a difference between short needles and long ones?
Who uses each and comments on them please? >>
*My doctor prescribed 31G x 5/16" (8mm) needles. They were only slightly
different from the same ones and I could hardly tell the difference.*
September 28th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
I don’t reuse my needles. My insurance plan provides me enough for each shot, so
what would be the point (pun intended, I couldn’t resist)? But if you have to
pay a lot for them out-of-pocket, using them twice doesn’t sound too risky. But
they sure show a really nasty magnified picture on the information pamplet. The
September 29th, 2006 at 2:06 am
OK, I’ll admit it. I don’t reuse my needles, but I don’t replace my lancet until
I say "Damn, that hurt"! I think, no I know, it’s because I’m too lazy to open
up the pen to replace it everytime.
Rich
I don’t reuse my needles. My insurance plan provides me enough for each shot,
so what would be the point (pun intended, I couldn’t resist)? But if you have to
pay a lot for them out-of-pocket, using them twice doesn’t sound too risky. But
they sure show a really nasty magnified picture on the information pamplet. The
used needle looks like a serrated steak knife!
Rich
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September 29th, 2006 at 6:50 am
I’m guilty of re-using as well. I do wash my hands with soap and rinse well and
dry
before using my meter though. Since we are talking about this I’m going to
put another
lancet in right now.
Rich
I don’t reuse my needles. My insurance plan provides me enough for each shot, so
what would be the point (pun intended, I couldn’t resist)? But if you have to
pay a lot for them out-of-pocket, using them twice doesn’t sound too risky. But
they sure show a really nasty magnified picture on the information pamplet. The
used needle looks like a serrated steak knife!
Rich
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Laura
September 29th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
ive always reused my needles. did it when i was on insulin and now again with
byetta. never had a problem. jude
September 29th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
laura…
I am one of the ones who gets woozy at the thought of reusing a needle or
lancet. HOWEVER, let me say that if you are washing your hands thourghly
EVERY time and the lancet is in the pen in the case closed, i don’t see a
problem re using the lancet. But i actually used an Alcohol Swab before i
test and before my byetta injections. I never re use. But that is me. I
understand that others do things differently. I did have to re use a byetta
needle the other day. I am still have dizzy spells thinking about it, but
i’m doing better now…LOL….
Demetria-Beth
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I’m guilty of re-using as well. I do wash my hands with soap and rinse well
and dry
before using my meter though. Since we are talking about this I’m going to
put another
lancet in right now.
Rich Smith <bearfax@optonline. <mailto:bearfax%40optonline.net> net> wrote:
OK, I’ll admit it. I don’t reuse my needles, but I don’t replace my lancet
until I say "Damn, that hurt"! I think, no I know, it’s because I’m too lazy
to open up the pen to replace it everytime.
Rich
I don’t reuse my needles. My insurance plan provides me enough for each
shot, so what would be the point (pun intended, I couldn’t resist)? But if
you have to pay a lot for them out-of-pocket, using them twice doesn’t sound
too risky. But they sure show a really nasty magnified picture on the
information pamplet. The used needle looks like a serrated steak knife!
Rich
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Laura
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January 1st, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I asked the Byetta people about the bruising and they suggested it was the
fact that I am taking baby aspirin, a blood thinner. Boy I wish now I had
paid more attention to biology in H.S. Now I have to do so much more
reading on what organ/gland does what .
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:34 am
Penny wrote "I asked the Byetta people about the bruising and they suggested it
was the fact that I am taking baby aspirin, a blood thinner."
I don’t take baby aspirin and have had bruising. Just think it depends on what
you hit when you insert the needle. And I was using the smallest 31 ga. needle
also.
January 8th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
i take coumadin and do not bleed………………baz
I don’t take baby aspirin and have had bruising. Just think it depends on what
you hit when you insert the needle. And I was using the smallest 31 ga. needle
also.
Sherrill
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January 9th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I bruise really easy and quickly became polka dotted.,
here is what I have found,
I live in South Texas, and cannot guarantee that my house will be 77
degrees or lower, therefore I store my Byetta pen in the fridge. Well
once I had gotten the travel pack, I just thought that I would leave the
pen in the travel pack in the fridge. Well, it seems like that way, it
is lots colder than just storing it in the carton it came in. When I
remove it from the travel pack and inject, I seem to bruise much worse.
(Some even 2 inches in diameter!)
So now I let it warm up,5-10 minutes, just so its not cold out of the
fridge, and I also store it in the carton, instead of the travel pack.
I can now tell just by wrapping my hand around the pen, so that it is
not really cold, but instead just cool. It seems to sting less when
injecting too.
It just seems to work better for me,and my bruises seem to be fading at
least a little!
January 9th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Yes, one can bruise without taking a blood thinner but it is much more
likely and likely to be bigger.