Bruising at injection site

Is this normal? I looked down today to see where I hadn't injected before
and saw a huge bruise! I tried not to pinch the skin up in that area, but
it still hurt the bruised area very badly when I pinched up the skin next to
it. I inject in my stomach if that matters. I have very little fat on my
legs but plenty on the stomach.

Then this afternoon, I was getting dressed and looked in the mirror. My
entire stomach is a mass of bruises, marching along in a rather uneven line.
I should add I do not bruise easily and I can't remember the last time I had
a bruise. Exception being when I worked at K Mart and we got those racks
for plastic bags at the checkouts. The prongs were very sharp. My job was
to fix the scanners, among other things. The bag rack was right next to the
scanner and I was forever running my hip bones into the prongs. I swear I
had permanent bruises there for a couple of years.

Thanks!

"Julie Bove" <juliebove@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:gCmZj.3775$H91.1443@trndny09...
> Is this normal? I looked down today to see where I hadn't injected before
> and saw a huge bruise! I tried not to pinch the skin up in that area, but
> it still hurt the bruised area very badly when I pinched up the skin next
> to it. I inject in my stomach if that matters. I have very little fat on
> my legs but plenty on the stomach.
>
> Then this afternoon, I was getting dressed and looked in the mirror. My
> entire stomach is a mass of bruises, marching along in a rather uneven
> line. I should add I do not bruise easily and I can't remember the last
> time I had a bruise. Exception being when I worked at K Mart and we got
> those racks for plastic bags at the checkouts. The prongs were very
> sharp. My job was to fix the scanners, among other things. The bag rack
> was right next to the scanner and I was forever running my hip bones into
> the prongs. I swear I had permanent bruises there for a couple of years.
>
> Thanks!
>

Julie, I have the same type of bruises on my stomach/upper abdomen from my
Byetta injections. Sometimes the bruises are small, sometimes they're huge.
However, I bruise **very** easily, and I know you just said you don't...so I
don't know how helpful my input is to you. :-)

Karen
Type 2

"Karen in NC" <sickofspam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>>
>
> Julie, I have the same type of bruises on my stomach/upper abdomen from my
> Byetta injections. Sometimes the bruises are small, sometimes they're
> huge. However, I bruise **very** easily, and I know you just said you
> don't...so I don't know how helpful my input is to you. :-)

Thanks. Sometimes I feel like I am pushing the pen really hard into me when
I am counting the 6 or 10 seconds, depending on the insulin I am using.

Julie Bove wrote:
> Is this normal? I looked down today to see where I hadn't injected before
> and saw a huge bruise! I tried not to pinch the skin up in that area, but
> it still hurt the bruised area very badly when I pinched up the skin next to
> it. I inject in my stomach if that matters. I have very little fat on my
> legs but plenty on the stomach.
>
> Then this afternoon, I was getting dressed and looked in the mirror. My
> entire stomach is a mass of bruises, marching along in a rather uneven line.
> I should add I do not bruise easily and I can't remember the last time I had
> a bruise. Exception being when I worked at K Mart and we got those racks
> for plastic bags at the checkouts. The prongs were very sharp. My job was
> to fix the scanners, among other things. The bag rack was right next to the
> scanner and I was forever running my hip bones into the prongs. I swear I
> had permanent bruises there for a couple of years.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
press down firmly on the injection site for at least 30 sec after you
withdraw the needle

--
kate
type 1 since 1987
www.diabetic-talk.org
http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/n...diagnosed.html

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Karen in NC" <sickofspam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:MwoZj.175623$yE1.40723@attbi_s21...
>
>> Julie, I have the same type of bruises on my stomach/upper abdomen from my
>> Byetta injections. Sometimes the bruises are small, sometimes they're
>> huge. However, I bruise **very** easily, and I know you just said you
>> don't...so I don't know how helpful my input is to you. :-)
>
> Thanks. Sometimes I feel like I am pushing the pen really hard into me when
> I am counting the 6 or 10 seconds, depending on the insulin I am using.
>
>
don't push the pen really hard into you......... the needle is all that
has to penetrate the skin

--
kate
type 1 since 1987
www.diabetic-talk.org
http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/n...diagnosed.html

"Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>>
> press down firmly on the injection site for at least 30 sec after you
> withdraw the needle

Okay. Thanks!

"Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> don't push the pen really hard into you......... the needle is all that
> has to penetrate the skin

My brain knows that but my hand does not.

"Karen in NC" <sickofspam@nospam.com> wrote:
> "Julie Bove" <juliebove@verizon.net> wrote in message

> > Is this normal? I looked down today to see where I hadn't injected
> > before and saw a huge bruise! I tried not to pinch the skin up in that
> > area, but it still hurt the bruised area very badly when I pinched up
> > the skin next to it. I inject in my stomach if that matters. I have
> > very little fat on my legs but plenty on the stomach.
> >
> > Then this afternoon, I was getting dressed and looked in the mirror.
> > My entire stomach is a mass of bruises, marching along in a rather
> > uneven line. I should add I do not bruise easily and I can't remember
> > the last time I had a bruise. Exception being when I worked at K Mart
> > and we got those racks for plastic bags at the checkouts. The prongs
> > were very sharp. My job was to fix the scanners, among other things.
> > The bag rack was right next to the scanner and I was forever running my
> > hip bones into the prongs. I swear I had permanent bruises there for a
> > couple of years.

> Julie, I have the same type of bruises on my stomach/upper abdomen from
> my Byetta injections. Sometimes the bruises are small, sometimes they're
> huge. However, I bruise **very** easily, and I know you just said you
> don't...so I don't know how helpful my input is to you. :-)

Julie, at what angle do you hold the pen when you inject yourself. I've
never used a pen, but when I was shooting insulin, I used to hold the
syringe at between 15 and 30 degrees off the skin (it's been 13 or 14
years, so I don't remember exactly). You might find this URL interesting.
They also talk about Lantus. http://www.apidra.com/how_to_take/default.aspx

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"Nick Cramer" <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>
> Julie, at what angle do you hold the pen when you inject yourself. I've
> never used a pen, but when I was shooting insulin, I used to hold the
> syringe at between 15 and 30 degrees off the skin (it's been 13 or 14
> years, so I don't remember exactly). You might find this URL interesting.
> They also talk about Lantus.
> http://www.apidra.com/how_to_take/default.aspx

I don't know angles. I just push it straight in.

Thanks!

"Julie Bove" <juliebove@verizon.net> wrote:
> "Karen in NC" <sickofspam@nospam.com> wrote in message

> > Julie, I have the same type of bruises on my stomach/upper abdomen from
> > my Byetta injections. Sometimes the bruises are small, sometimes
> > they're huge. However, I bruise **very** easily, and I know you just
> > said you don't...so I don't know how helpful my input is to you. :-)
>
> Thanks. Sometimes I feel like I am pushing the pen really hard into me
> when I am counting the 6 or 10 seconds, depending on the insulin I am
> using.

Julie, shouldn't you be injecting subcutaneously, rather than
intramuscular. It's not like you're trying to do a peritoneal injection, as
with DMSO.

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are all my heroes! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not
forgotten. Thanks ! ! ~Semper Fi~

"Nick Cramer" <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" <juliebove@verizon.net> wrote:
>> "Karen in NC" <sickofspam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>
>> > Julie, I have the same type of bruises on my stomach/upper abdomen from
>> > my Byetta injections. Sometimes the bruises are small, sometimes
>> > they're huge. However, I bruise **very** easily, and I know you just
>> > said you don't...so I don't know how helpful my input is to you. :-)
>>
>> Thanks. Sometimes I feel like I am pushing the pen really hard into me
>> when I am counting the 6 or 10 seconds, depending on the insulin I am
>> using.
>
> Julie, shouldn't you be injecting subcutaneously, rather than
> intramuscular. It's not like you're trying to do a peritoneal injection,
> as
> with DMSO.

Hmmm... That video you showed me said to pinch the skin up gently. The
nurse said to pull it up really hard and firm. Maybe that's why?

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Nick Cramer" <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:20080523035207.579$8l@newsreader.com...
>
>>
>> Julie, at what angle do you hold the pen when you inject yourself.
>> I've never used a pen, but when I was shooting insulin, I used to
>> hold the syringe at between 15 and 30 degrees off the skin (it's
>> been 13 or 14 years, so I don't remember exactly). You might find
>> this URL interesting. They also talk about Lantus.
>> http://www.apidra.com/how_to_take/default.aspx
>
> I don't know angles. I just push it straight in.

Strange, I was taught angles.

That was with regular syringes not pens though.

convicted neighbor Julie Bove wrote:
>
> Is this normal?

No. It would suggest that you have a tendency to bleed.

> I looked down today to see where I hadn't injected before
> and saw a huge bruise! I tried not to pinch the skin up in that area, but
> it still hurt the bruised area very badly when I pinched up the skin next to
> it. I inject in my stomach if that matters. I have very little fat on my
> legs but plenty on the stomach.
>
> Then this afternoon, I was getting dressed and looked in the mirror. My
> entire stomach is a mass of bruises, marching along in a rather uneven line.
> I should add I do not bruise easily and I can't remember the last time I had
> a bruise.

Would suggest you inform your doctor about this new development.

Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be euglycemic...

Marana tha

Prayerfully in the awesome name of LORD Jesus Christ,

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"Julie Bove" <juliebove@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Is this normal? I looked down today to see where I hadn't injected before
> and saw a huge bruise! I tried not to pinch the skin up in that area, but
> it still hurt the bruised area very badly when I pinched up the skin next
> to it. I inject in my stomach if that matters. I have very little fat on
> my legs but plenty on the stomach.
>
> Then this afternoon, I was getting dressed and looked in the mirror. My
> entire stomach is a mass of bruises, marching along in a rather uneven
> line. I should add I do not bruise easily and I can't remember the last
> time I had a bruise. Exception being when I worked at K Mart and we got
> those racks for plastic bags at the checkouts. The prongs were very
> sharp. My job was to fix the scanners, among other things. The bag rack
> was right next to the scanner and I was forever running my hip bones into
> the prongs. I swear I had permanent bruises there for a couple of years.
>
> Thanks!
>
I get the occasional bruise, Julie. Someone explained in another thread a
while ago that it happens when you accidentally hit a small vein. That in
itself, he said, is not dangerous, but it does cause a bruise. I don't know
why you get many bruises - I suppose some people bruise easily. there may,
of course, be a reason other than that, and I would certainly investigate it
further. Many years ago, before I was diagnosed with diabetes, I went
through a phase where I'd break out in bruises for the slightest reason,
such as a bump. That eventually went away. I don't know why it happened, and
I don't know why it went.

Henry Mydlarz.

"hemyd" <myd!!!hen@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:4836a512$0$1024$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au ...

> I get the occasional bruise, Julie. Someone explained in another thread a
> while ago that it happens when you accidentally hit a small vein. That in
> itself, he said, is not dangerous, but it does cause a bruise. I don't
> know why you get many bruises - I suppose some people bruise easily. there
> may, of course, be a reason other than that, and I would certainly
> investigate it further. Many years ago, before I was diagnosed with
> diabetes, I went through a phase where I'd break out in bruises for the
> slightest reason, such as a bump. That eventually went away. I don't know
> why it happened, and I don't know why it went.

I know I must have hit a vein when I had that one that wouldn't stop
bleeding. Not sure about the others, and I don't bruise easily. Thanks!

Ozgirl wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Nick Cramer" <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>> news:20080523035207.579$8l@newsreader.com...
>>
>>> Julie, at what angle do you hold the pen when you inject yourself.
>>> I've never used a pen, but when I was shooting insulin, I used to
>>> hold the syringe at between 15 and 30 degrees off the skin (it's
>>> been 13 or 14 years, so I don't remember exactly). You might find
>>> this URL interesting. They also talk about Lantus.
>>> http://www.apidra.com/how_to_take/default.aspx
>> I don't know angles. I just push it straight in.
>
> Strange, I was taught angles.
>
> That was with regular syringes not pens though.
>
>
the new needles are SO short, Jan, that injecting at an angle is no
longer necessary

when i was diagnosed, needles were 1 inch long, now they are 1/4 in or
smaller (5mm and 6mm)

i use an 8 or 12mm needle tip

--
kate
type 1 since 1987
www.diabetic-talk.org
http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/n...diagnosed.html

"Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Ozgirl wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Nick Cramer" <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>>> news:20080523035207.579$8l@newsreader.com...
>>>
>>>> Julie, at what angle do you hold the pen when you inject yourself.
>>>> I've never used a pen, but when I was shooting insulin, I used to
>>>> hold the syringe at between 15 and 30 degrees off the skin (it's
>>>> been 13 or 14 years, so I don't remember exactly). You might find
>>>> this URL interesting. They also talk about Lantus.
>>>> http://www.apidra.com/how_to_take/default.aspx
>>> I don't know angles. I just push it straight in.
>>
>> Strange, I was taught angles.
>>
>> That was with regular syringes not pens though.
> the new needles are SO short, Jan, that injecting at an angle is no longer
> necessary
>
> when i was diagnosed, needles were 1 inch long, now they are 1/4 in or
> smaller (5mm and 6mm)
>
> i use an 8 or 12mm needle tip

Mine are 1/2".

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:69o86lF33n0msU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Ozgirl wrote:
>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> "Nick Cramer" <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:20080523035207.579$8l@newsreader.com...
>>>>
>>>>> Julie, at what angle do you hold the pen when you inject yourself.
>>>>> I've never used a pen, but when I was shooting insulin, I used to
>>>>> hold the syringe at between 15 and 30 degrees off the skin (it's
>>>>> been 13 or 14 years, so I don't remember exactly). You might find
>>>>> this URL interesting. They also talk about Lantus.
>>>>> http://www.apidra.com/how_to_take/default.aspx
>>>> I don't know angles. I just push it straight in.
>>> Strange, I was taught angles.
>>>
>>> That was with regular syringes not pens though.
>> the new needles are SO short, Jan, that injecting at an angle is no longer
>> necessary
>>
>> when i was diagnosed, needles were 1 inch long, now they are 1/4 in or
>> smaller (5mm and 6mm)
>>
>> i use an 8 or 12mm needle tip
>
> Mine are 1/2".
>
>
that's 12mm

--
kate
type 1 since 1987
www.diabetic-talk.org
http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/n...diagnosed.html

"Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>>
>> Mine are 1/2".
> that's 12mm

See? I told you I wasn't good at math!

if the area is still wet with alcohol when u inject it could cause a
reaction too...

my finger sticks hurt like hell till i started just sticking without and my
finnger wernt as scared lookin etc..got that tidbit from u all like 2 weeks
after i was doing it with alcohol.

KROM

"Julie Bove" <juliebove@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>
> "hemyd" <myd!!!hen@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4836a512$0$1024$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au ...
>
>> I get the occasional bruise, Julie. Someone explained in another thread a
>> while ago that it happens when you accidentally hit a small vein. That in
>> itself, he said, is not dangerous, but it does cause a bruise. I don't
>> know why you get many bruises - I suppose some people bruise easily.
>> there may, of course, be a reason other than that, and I would certainly
>> investigate it further. Many years ago, before I was diagnosed with
>> diabetes, I went through a phase where I'd break out in bruises for the
>> slightest reason, such as a bump. That eventually went away. I don't know
>> why it happened, and I don't know why it went.
>
> I know I must have hit a vein when I had that one that wouldn't stop
> bleeding. Not sure about the others, and I don't bruise easily. Thanks!
>

"krom" <thekromremoveremove@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> if the area is still wet with alcohol when u inject it could cause a
> reaction too...

It's not. I learned that after my first painful injection in the hospital.
The nurse didn't tell me to allow the alcohol to dry so I didn't. Injected
right through it.
>
> my finger sticks hurt like hell till i started just sticking without and
> my finnger wernt as scared lookin etc..got that tidbit from u all like 2
> weeks after i was doing it with alcohol.
>
I've never done a finger stick with alcohol. At some labs, they do. But at
my Endo., they just use water on a cotton ball.

In article <DAFZj.39$RG.5@trndny07>, juliebove@verizon.net says...
>
> "Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:69oferF33j31hU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> >>
> >> Mine are 1/2".
> > that's 12mm
>
> See? I told you I wasn't good at math!
>
>
>
I buy 8 mm x 30 gauge or even 6 mm x 31 gauge needles for my Novo pen. I
have always shot at a right angle (90 degrees) or straight in to the
skin. I get bruising two ways; either by pinching too hard, or by
hitting a capillary.

Dennis (Type 2)

"Dennis R." <ds_rekuta@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> In article <DAFZj.39$RG.5@trndny07>, juliebove@verizon.net says...
>>
>> "Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:69oferF33j31hU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>> >>
>> >> Mine are 1/2".
>> > that's 12mm
>>
>> See? I told you I wasn't good at math!
>>
>>
>>
> I buy 8 mm x 30 gauge or even 6 mm x 31 gauge needles for my Novo pen. I
> have always shot at a right angle (90 degrees) or straight in to the
> skin. I get bruising two ways; either by pinching too hard, or by
> hitting a capillary.

Thanks! I think I was pinching too hard. The nurse told me to do that to
make the skin firm. I was pinching the skin up REALLY hard.

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Dennis R." <ds_rekuta@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> news:MPG.22a13412812c3c769896e5@nntp.aioe.org...
>> In article <DAFZj.39$RG.5@trndny07>, juliebove@verizon.net says...
>>>
>>> "Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>>> news:69oferF33j31hU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mine are 1/2".
>>>> that's 12mm
>>>
>>> See? I told you I wasn't good at math!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I buy 8 mm x 30 gauge or even 6 mm x 31 gauge needles for my Novo
>> pen. I have always shot at a right angle (90 degrees) or straight in
>> to the skin. I get bruising two ways; either by pinching too hard,
>> or by hitting a capillary.
>
> Thanks! I think I was pinching too hard. The nurse told me to do
> that to make the skin firm. I was pinching the skin up REALLY hard.

You don't need it to be firm, just up and away from painful areas. Thighs
are not a place I can shoot comfotably, the left-over baby bell I can.

"Ozgirl" <are_we_there_yet@maccas.com> wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Dennis R." <ds_rekuta@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.22a13412812c3c769896e5@nntp.aioe.org...
>>> In article <DAFZj.39$RG.5@trndny07>, juliebove@verizon.net says...
>>>>
>>>> "Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:69oferF33j31hU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mine are 1/2".
>>>>> that's 12mm
>>>>
>>>> See? I told you I wasn't good at math!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I buy 8 mm x 30 gauge or even 6 mm x 31 gauge needles for my Novo
>>> pen. I have always shot at a right angle (90 degrees) or straight in
>>> to the skin. I get bruising two ways; either by pinching too hard,
>>> or by hitting a capillary.
>>
>> Thanks! I think I was pinching too hard. The nurse told me to do
>> that to make the skin firm. I was pinching the skin up REALLY hard.
>
> You don't need it to be firm, just up and away from painful areas. Thighs
> are not a place I can shoot comfotably, the left-over baby bell I can.

I would not try the thighs. My legs look like Nicole Richie's when she was
at her thinnest.

Julie Bove wrote:
> "Ozgirl" <are_we_there_yet@maccas.com> wrote in message
> news:69pjr9F349j6kU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Dennis R." <ds_rekuta@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
>>> news:MPG.22a13412812c3c769896e5@nntp.aioe.org...
>>>> In article <DAFZj.39$RG.5@trndny07>, juliebove@verizon.net says...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Tiger_Lily" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>>>>> news:69oferF33j31hU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mine are 1/2".
>>>>>> that's 12mm
>>>>>
>>>>> See? I told you I wasn't good at math!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I buy 8 mm x 30 gauge or even 6 mm x 31 gauge needles for my Novo
>>>> pen. I have always shot at a right angle (90 degrees) or straight
>>>> in to the skin. I get bruising two ways; either by pinching too
>>>> hard, or by hitting a capillary.
>>>
>>> Thanks! I think I was pinching too hard. The nurse told me to do
>>> that to make the skin firm. I was pinching the skin up REALLY hard.
>>
>> You don't need it to be firm, just up and away from painful areas.
>> Thighs are not a place I can shoot comfotably, the left-over baby
>> bell I can.
>
> I would not try the thighs. My legs look like Nicole Richie's when
> she was at her thinnest.

Which gives even more weight to the thought you most likely do have
Cushings. Finding someone to test you properly and thoroughly could prevent
a lot of the grief you are going through. I have only ever known two person
in real who were diagnosed with Cushings. Both had remarkable health changes
for the better after treatment started. The woman had the most pronounced
physical signs of Cushings. The man just had a set of unusual symptoms that
pointed to diabetes but wasn't.