This is a picture of my abdomen from the other day. It was time for a site change so I go through all the priming, and filling of reservoir, then pinch my stomach to insert the needle. Same thing I do every three days every week of every month of every year. Needless to say, I'm used to it.
"OWWWWWW. *explicit* GAHH. *explicit*" is what came out of my mouth.
I barely had the needle in my abdomen and it was killing me. Felt like a hot knife was slicing into my body. I debated whether or not to pull it out or push it in and hope it didn't hurt once it was in, so I pushed a LITTLE bit further in, then STRAIGHT out!! Way too painful! Then the little dot started to bleed. (square bandaid in upper right)
I always leave my old site in for a few hours to make sure that the new one is good before I rip out the old one, so later that night I pulled out the old site. Guess what? It started bleeding too! Did I mention I was wearing a white shirt? that little thing wouldn't stop bleeding! I had to cup my hand under it because I was not near a tissue and it was dripping down my stomach and I didn't want it to get on the carpet!
These type of things happen often, and separately they would not be super annoying. However together, they made me a bit nutty.
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Totally get that. The pain and gushers, or even slight bleeders, are always an adventure to navigate. Love it when it does get on the carpet, or even better on a new white work shirt. Of course, I LOVE how MM makes their CGM sensor needle look like a huge bumble bee... that helps the mental aspects of all this even more. Anyhow, hope the new site worked out better!
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