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Permalink Reply by Helmut on November 29, 2009 at 6:08pm

I don't have a pump. But the same happens to me with my DexCom 7+ sites. I am very protective of the sites because I don't want to rip the sensor off and I also don't want to sleep on the sites. Only to realize that the sensor is no longer where I thought it was.

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth S. on November 29, 2009 at 6:37pm

Yes!! I have been wondering about this for a while!! And I call it the same thing, phantom site. It is the strangest thing. It happens to both my pump and sensor sites, but mostly my sensor sites. My pump sites I am very comfortable with and don't think about it much, but my sensor site I am also very protective of and I feel that it is really fragile so the 'phantom site' happens a lot.

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Permalink Reply by nel on November 29, 2009 at 9:19pm

I have this "phantom site pain feeling " sometimes where my right breast " was "; had breast surgery in 1984 , so can identify .

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Permalink Reply by Taylor Moody on November 30, 2009 at 4:13am

i get this all the time! i was beginning to think i was crazy. lol

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Permalink Reply by Abby on January 25, 2010 at 12:50pm

I get this, I never thought it'd be something anyone else would get, I just thought I was going a bit crazy :)

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Permalink Reply by Karen on January 25, 2010 at 4:09pm

Ahhhh glad to hear I am not the only crazy one. :)

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Permalink Reply by Sadie Mae on January 25, 2010 at 4:17pm

it happens to me but, i don't hav a pump so it's injection site

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on January 25, 2010 at 6:15pm

Hi Karen!

Yep, this has happened to me. Do you find it's usually in approximately the same spot? I have one spot in my left abdomen that feels that way whenever I have a site on that side...even it it's nowhere near the "sore" spot. And the odd thing is...that spot is never sore unless I have a site in on that side. It's not only phantom site pain, it's apparently a complete phantom!

Ruth

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Permalink Reply by Pavlos on January 26, 2010 at 6:35am

Add me to the list of people who also have this. Sometimes I'll bend over to put my shoes on or something and feel a sharp pain (not very intense) and check to see if my infusion set is being pulled on only to find out it's on the other side of my stomach.

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Permalink Reply by Michele on January 26, 2010 at 1:19pm

Me too! Weird, huh?

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