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Permalink Reply by Kris on May 13, 2008 at 6:52am

I've never injected through my clothes - I like to look at where I'm injecting. Plus these days I don't feel uncomfortable about doing it in restaurants or the like - hell I do it sitting at my desk at work. If I'm ever anywhere I'm uncomfortable about doing it, I'll go to the mensroom instead.

I too have heard that thigh is slower to absorb - I was advised to only do my Levemir there, but to inject the Novorapid into my tummy. Tummy hurts less than thigh too :(

Permalink Reply by Stuart on June 12, 2008 at 9:53pm

Kris:

A restroom is literally the dirtest place in the entire restaurant to even consider injection. Avoid them like the plague, before you acquire some nasty ickness in the germ infested dirty room

In the car, or at the payphone is a better choice... I would think!
Stuart

Permalink Reply by Stuart on June 12, 2008 at 9:49pm

A looooong time ago when I was a member of the Compuserve Diabetes Forum... they were having just this discussion. I'd been diabetic a long time and always injected in private, but was only doing two injections a day at that point if I recall correctly.

When I switched to more injections.... something inside my brain went EEEEEENGH, and Stuart started going through clothes (clean clothes btw).... had needles bend on both pen & the normal syringes with or without clothing.... iron skin

Only time it gets remotely messy is if it hits a capillary, vein, then you get droplets of red.... well ok, going through flannel in winter can be interesting too but ; ) a little planning and a button or two... no problems at all injecting through clothing...

My dry cleaner sometimes loves me, sometimes hates me depends on the month

Stuart

Permalink Reply by Megan S on October 20, 2008 at 12:27am

I tried injecting through my jeans, but it was difficult to get the needle through. Eventually I pulled it out and realised that a blue thread had attached itself to the tip of the needle - no wonder I couldn't get it through my skin!

Permalink Reply by Ron on November 4, 2008 at 8:52am

I have never injected through clothing. I have always lifted my shirt I just try and be more discrete but the last few times out at a restaurant while I was doing that my wife has noticed others testing at the table. Good bad or indifferent our numbers are growing. She always says honey look they are testing over there.... go over and compare #'s.

Permalink Reply by barbraann on April 9, 2010 at 1:04pm

I have on occasion injected through clothing with never a problem. Only when I can't lift my shirt and get at it without strangers seeing. I've done it into my thigh through jeans and through shirts into my stomach. I can generally get to a spot without going through clothing though.

Permalink Reply by Realsis77 on October 13, 2010 at 7:10am

I Never inject through my clothing. It doesn't seem clean.

Permalink Reply by latvianchick on December 2, 2010 at 11:35am

I do not think it is a good idea - though I wish it was! The only time I would inject through clothes is during a severe emergency such as using an Epipen during an anaphylactic shock, but I feel with the insulin which most of inject more than a couple of times a day it is dangerous as it can introduce cloth fibres into and under the skin by dragging tiny fibres into the injection site.

Permalink Reply by Anne on March 31, 2011 at 1:07pm

If ever, I inject through dark Jeans. Never had any problems with it, and usually all the insulin goes where it is supposed to go. I avoid injecting through Shirts (except maybe in winter through a tank top I'm wearing under), I don't want any strange, difficult to get rid of stains on them...
Though, I only do it, if I can't get any privacy or am in a very big hurry and can't afford detours, which is a rare case.

Just one thing: make sure you change the needle EVERY time you've injected through clothing.
Going through one or more layers of fabric twice (injecting + pulling out) damages the needle more than a regular insulin shot, without fabric between the pen and the skin, already does. Also, there is a risk for infections, if the same needle is used more than once that way.

Permalink Reply by Zolar1 on April 2, 2011 at 2:40pm

I have done it many many times without a problem.

You might want to try a different size/length of needle or avoid 'bleeder areas' .

Permalink Reply by Zolar1 on April 2, 2011 at 2:44pm

PS you can unzip your fly and inject in the lower abdomen too. Quick and easy.

Women can just lift up a skirt or dress and inject easily. Their thighs have enough fat for them to use those areas suitably.

Permalink Reply by latvianchick on July 28, 2011 at 9:45am

Zolar, are you a man? I am a woman and have no fat on my thighs! I do from time to time, when I have zips do it the way you say, usually under the table in a restaurant or under a desk. No problems. Nobody sees. If they do, that is their problem, not mine and I am perverse enough to say something that will leave 'em gasping!

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