These past two days have just been horrible! Yesterday I had to get my blood taken for my A1c and it took them 3 tries to get my blood!...By the second time I started crying... She was digging in my veins...it just hurt! Now I got bruises on my arm..and it feels like someone punched me.. SO then after that my blood sugar started going up and at first I thought maybe it had been from the stress so I changed my set because I had to anyway and ignored it...but later on it was still going up..so I checked the pump and it was priming ok and it wasn't leaking from the set I even ripped off the set to see if the cannula had bent and it hadn't so I don't know what the problem was...I do know that I was at the end of the insulin bottle so maybe that had something to do with it..so a couple hours go by and I started getting high numbers again...this time it was a bent cannula which I knew was my fault because when i pushed the inserter device buttons I didn't push them exactly at the same time..so I redid the set.so then today...I got high numbers again...pulled this one out and it's bent again! Now my number on my meter is just saying HI I just want my numbers to go down!.. :( Also I don't know if this matters or not..but when I first started my sets I was using the 9mm with barely any problems...now I have been using the 6mm and they seem to be giving me more problems with bent cannulas and leaking insulin.. I am not exactly skinny either..so..maybe 9mm were better for me? Anyone else have these sort of probblems???
Sorry your having a bad day Shayla. But it sounds like you are taking it well and trying to fix the problem.
I don't use a pump but it seems to me that if there were no problems with the 9mm and now all kinds of problems with the 6mm that you may be on to something.
How hard is it to get your supplies changed?
Sorry. Just makes you want to hide under the covers! Afraid I can't offer anything on pump problems, but I drink water before labs to make blood draws easier.
Some of the nurse/techs just don't know how to draw blood. After 40 years, my vien in my arm sticks up like a big flag. You can't miss it. Some do though. But the worst draw I've ever had, the tech had a "butterfly" needle, basically a needle on the end of a tube with a butterfly handle for holding. He was almost spinning it around in my arm trying to find blood. AAAAHH!!!! I wanted to punch his lights out!
man i hate it when they don't listen cuz I told the lady don't do that vein..you think your gonna get it and your not..so shes like well i'm gonna try anyway..and yeah thats the one where she dug and couldn't get it..yeah told ya so!..I try to get them to use those butterfly needles too...but a lot of times they just don't listen to me.. *sigh* and it's bad enough that I have to go to the hospital to get it done cuz the health dept. that I go to won't even touch me cuz they are afraid of "hurting me"...their own words..
I started out being neurotically terrified of needles. After 5 years I can handle a blood test fairly well, but it's especially hard to find my veins for an IV. I always tell them and 80% of them don't listen. So my rule is, you get 2 tries. After that, I'm outta there. I don't care if it's for a routine blood test or major surgery, I WILL walk. And I'll probably be bitching pretty loudly on my way out.