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I get a drop at the end also, after i have injected. Most of the time I don't even feel the needle but a couple of times, it has been painful. What am I doing wrong? I count to 10 after injecting. How do you track where you have injected before? What happens if you inject the same place twice? How long should you space it out before you hit it twice? I wonder if that is why I feel pain sometimes. Step 12 in the instructions says you will see a drop of liquid, but I don't understand if it is before or after the injection. HELP!
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I have a weird system for tracking my injections. I found an "injection map" image online: basically, a picture of an abdomen with the shaded part representing where you can inject. I divided that into 12 areas: six on the left, six on the right, where each side has two rows of three. My map therefore looks like this (center part is a two-inch gap around the navel):
1 2 3 ------ 3 2 1
4 5 6 ------ 6 5 4
I use a notebook where the page is numbered 1 to 30, to represent 30 days. I printed out the abdomen image, with my six zones marked, and taped it inside the front cover for reference.
Day 1, I inject left side, zone 1, and I write L1 in the notebook.
Day 2, I inject right side zone 1, and write R1 in the notebook.
Day 3, left side zone 2, L2 in the notebook.
... and so on. After I reach R6, I go back to the beginning and repeat.
I know this seems OCD, but honestly, it's a breeze to open my notebook and see what's next.
When my pen finishes, I rip out the page, create a new page numbered 1-30, and just make a note of the last injection zone.
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The idea behind spacing is to avoid creating scar tissue, which interferes with absorption, I believe. At least from my experience with a kid on insulin. It takes a long time to create scar tissue.
I could always see where I had recently injected.
Every once in awhile it hurts a little.
Step 12 in the instructions is about priming the pen. That has nothing to do with injecting . It makes sure that when you do inject, the medicine 's dose is coming through and also that there are no air bubbles. Are you priming @alicevondall?