Preventing bruising from insulin injections?

Pinching the skin may break capillaries which causes bruising. The needle may break a capillary or two, or even hit a vein, which also can cause a bruise. What you could do is go to the library and find a Gray's Anatomy and check for as many blood vessels as you can find mapped, then try to avoid those areas. You can try not pinching the skin, although that may hurt more. Most of the injection areas that you have been told about are relatively blood vessel free and have fewer nerve clusters in them, so you may be straying a little from the areas. Other than that, you could apply an ice pack to the injection site after you massage it a little to work the insulin into the tissues surrounding the site. If you're getting lumps there, you almost definitely should do that.

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Preventing bruising from insulin injections?

I am an insulin dependent diabetic and have to give myself injections 4 times a day. I have followed all the instructions on how to do so and change the injection site each time, but I keep getting massive bruises at the injection sites. I have spoken about this to both my doctor and diabetic...

How To Prevent Bruises

I have the same problem depending on where I inject. From my experience, using the very smallest and shortest needle available helps, as well as injecting the dose as slowly as you can. But as you know, this is a personal matter. Perhaps a longer needle to get farther below the subcutaneous fat would lesson the impact on your skin.

I use 0.5 (1/2) CC needles with a 31 gauge tip width and a short needle which is 8 millimeters. They are the most comfortable I have tried so far, and seemed to have minimized most bruising effects.

Have you looked into an insulin pump? Most insurances pay for them now. And at 4 injections a day, you would love only having to put in one bigger needle once every 3 days. I use a "launching" injector device to make it easier and almost painless. You would love it!

In the meantime, try injecting into fattier parts of the body such as the side of your thigh or hip, and don't pinch up. Are you using the smallest needles? (I think there's one that's only about 1/3"?)

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you and me both honey ! my stomach looks disgusting, i'd say to spend a few minutes before you inject tryin to find the best spots, the spots which you can pull a smallish amount of skin up are usually where the bruising isn't as bad

also, its a side effect of some insulins, levemir for example!

hope you find a way to stop it babs

xo

one thing that may help minimize the bruising is the i-port Injection Port. It's a small device that you wear for 3 days and take all of your injections through without having to pierce your skin. So only 1 skin puncture every 3 days. you can find out more at their website i-port.com