I posted a picture of what has been happeneing with the silhouette infusion sets, my sugars are good but I usually use quicksets and recently somoeine gave me 12 boxes of silhouettes. I have been bleeding around the cannula, dosent hurt but concerns me a bit. Anyone else have this happen? Any tips? you can see the pic on my profile page
I use the silhouettes. You must have punctured a vein. Try pinching up the skin or flab before insertion so the canula is in the fat tissue. Hope this helps.
I agree. Pinch up the skin and try inserting it at a shallower angle. Do you have the 13 mm or 17mm sets? That may make a difference especially if you have the longer cannulas and are inserting at a deeper angle. I have had this happen with a Quickset too - just the luck of the draw.
Wow. That’s more blood than I would have thought. Are you putting it in by hand or with a sil-serter (it’s a funky little spring-loaded device they have for injecting the silhouette needles if you’re clumsy like I am)? If you’re doing it by hand, and if you intend to keep using silhouettes, you might want to try to get hold of a sil-serter because the device forces you to use a specific angle. I get a little bit of blood (a drop or two, not as much as you got) with it when I use it because it’s a little more forceful going in than doing it by hand, but on the other hand, I always get the needle in far enough without Eric wiggling away, which is why I started using it instead of doing it by hand.
I did use the silserter, there wasnt any blood till day 3 too, I think I must have pulled something whilesleeping. I am so used to quicksets, I changed set when resevoir was empty, my sugars were fine, so far new set change, no blood, hope it stays that way
happens to me from time to time. Im relatively thin, so i dont have much meat to work with. Certain area’s tend to bleed more profusely than others. I usually feel irritation at the site, and know what the cause is, so I try to have tissue at hand because I know when the set comes out its gonna gush blood