Strange but true

This will sound a little bizarre but here goes…I started on the MM pump last week using Novolog. EVERY time that I bolus I get a tingling sensation in my lower lip and sometimes the front of my tongue also. WTF? Have any of you experienced anything like this? I’ve got calls in to my endo and CDE but I wanted to throw it out to you guys in the real world. Thanks.

I get numbness in my lips when I am low. Any chance that you were low then? Did it happen every time?

I get a numb lower lip when I’m low.

I def get numbness in my hands and mouth when I am REAALLY low. But not when i’m just giving myself insulin.

I get the lip numbness when I am coming back from a low.,

What is your BG number, when you bolus or prior to bolussing ? My experience same as others described …coming out of a low ( finger pokes confirmed ) …and it does not happen every time for me …sometimes the eyes go " funny " .

I get funny buzzes and tingling around my torso even when I’m not wearing my CGM and my pump is not giving an alarm. They’re just phantom alarms that come and go.

Am I crazy or am I diabetic? My CDE gets them too.

(But she could be just humoring me.)

Terry

I feel my pump boluses in random places not even close where they are inserted, but definitely on my abdomen/sides. Kind of a pinch or itch. I thought I was the only one!

If you just started last week I’m not sure how many set changes you’ve done by now but I’m just wondering if you have some strange connection between where you put your site and your lip! Lol if you put your set in a different place does the same thing happen? This is pretty strange :slight_smile: Definitely never heard of it before!

You didn’t say how much bolus you take at one time. I had a problem with hardening of the skin tissue that would develop over time in the area were the inset was being placed. I have decided to never take more than 2 units bolus at a time and if I need more than 2 use the combo feature on my pump to deliver the rest over a 30 min period. That way I never feel it and the area where I place the inset does not seem to be hardening. I have been type 1 diabetic for 50 years and on the pump for 10.

My experience with the two speeds, is that if you’re having the stinging, the “slow” setting just prolongs the torture :stuck_out_tongue:

I just changed insulins 2 days ago though and I haven’t had any more stinging at all.

Has that problem been resolved Cal. Here too, if I'm low, I get numbness in or around my mouth.