This is how I felt yesterday. I got my tubing caught on a doorknob and ripped my set right out of my body. I went to replace the now dangling set from the pump, placed the inserter on a new site, let it rip and hit a nerve like you can't believe. Fire burning, scream out loud pain. The worst ever. Ten minutes later it's still burning and hurting so I decide to change the set yet again. I pull the set out and again, killer, tears in my eyes pain. What is this? It's never hurt like this before. So, I get a new set, put it in, this time without incident. But man was I soar. The rest of the night it ached where I'd hit the nerve and it ached where I'd ripped the site out with my door encounter. By the end of the night I just felt tired and beat up and well yes, like my body was a battleground where I'd just lost a round of the fight.
Artwork above by barbara kruger.
Ouch and yow!
I feel sore just reading about it. That just stinks.
I've never used it, but doesn't someone make a gizmo to reduce the dangling tube problem?
Posted by: Bernard Farrell | June 18, 2007 at 04:39 AM
Yes, there is a new device intended to reduce the snagging problem.
http://www.infusion-set.com/Default.asp?ID=119
I have yet to see one in person, or any place that actually sells the darn things.
Posted by: Sarah | June 18, 2007 at 07:09 AM
I feel ya. I've been wrestling with myself a bit lately too. I'm thankful that I'm not fighting with doorknobs and such at present.
We've all been there though.
Take care.
Posted by: Scott K. Johnson | June 18, 2007 at 04:42 PM
Ouch. I wore a pump 22 years ago and I still have recurring nightmares about tubing and pulling the sets out (those wake me to a low BG). I'm preparing to start anew on a pump-- and these are my greatest fears realized!
Posted by: kimberly | June 18, 2007 at 06:32 PM