Stupidest thing you've done with your infusion set/insulin pump
I'm such an idiot. Today, I was trying to insert a new Sillouette set, and like a dork, I forgot to take off the needle cover. I would have been trying to insert this sucker for a good half hour with this thing on had the medtronic rep not reminded me to take it off. I called because I wasn't sure what the fixed prime for this set was.
So, am I alone in being a total dunce and having a scratched up tummy, or has anyone done something equally as stupid?
So, am I alone in being a total dunce and having a scratched up tummy, or has anyone done something equally as stupid?
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Permalink Reply by MikeyType1 on -
I don't have a pump but can I tell you the stupidest thing I did with a syringe?
I use my mouth to pull of the cap on the needle part of the syringe before filling with insulin and injecting. It was when I was just diagnosed so it was very difficult to learn how to use all the new supplies. I already pulled off the safety cap and when I picked up the insulin somehow I went to bite it off again even though I already did and forgot. So in that motion I stuck the needle all the way in my tongue. It was very dumb and slightly bloody. I now NEVER use my teeth to pull the safety cap off. I always use my fingers to pull it off in the last 8 years.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on -
Damn, that must've hurt. I always wondered how people got their tongues pierced. Sound like you did yours yourself! :-)
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Permalink Reply by MikeyType1 on
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LoL. It actually really didn't hurt but the taste of blood in my mouth is gross and I kind of freaked out that I may have damaged my tongue but I was fine. Yeah, I'm not a fan of piercings on myself but I have to admit some of them look cool.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on
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I hope I never do this; I've done plenty of stupid things related to my diabetes, though.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Moulton on -
Been there, done that. : - ) I think it's the stress of just wanting to get the insertion over with....
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Permalink Reply by jeremiahtren on -
I got mine caught on the door knob.Lets just say I stear clear from them now!
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on -
I was prparing to do a set change and filled the reservoir. Took out the reservoir and rewound the pump (or so I thought). I kept trying to get the reservoir in and it wouldn't go. I was puzzled. I figured it must be the reservoir so I got another one filled up and still it wouldn't seat right. So after a few minutes of messing with it, it finally went it. And half a reservoir of insuin was on my work clothes. When I went to prime the pump, only then did I realize I hadn't' rewound the piston. SILLY ME.
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Permalink Reply by LaurainFL on
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I have ripped my pump & infusion set off on literally everything you can think of...door handles, counter tops edges, my own ARM :) I've woken up to my pump hanging off the side of the bed. I also have forgotten to connect my tubing to my infusion site for a few hours and did not realize it until my husband told me he could smell bandaids! Yikes my sugars went out the roof! Oh, the stories I could tell!
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Permalink Reply by Robert Mitchell on
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Started playing with cat with the old tubing just some thing for him to bat at. Now he sometimes wakes me up pawing the covers back to play with the tubing that I am using.
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Permalink Reply by Charvena on -
Was replacing my reservoir set. Went to prime the tubing, held the ACT button and the pump just kept beeping and beeping but wouldn't start priming the tubing. Took me a good 5 minutes to figure out I hadn't placed the reservoir back in the pump. Had to re-rewind and try again. Glad I figured it out before I called Medtronic.
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Permalink Reply by Katieann2003 on -
While working as a paramedic we were eating lunch and got a call. I tucked my pump haphazardly into my bra and set off. While bending over patient with a large bleeding wound my pump fell out of my bra and was dangling out the top of my shirt. My partner who thankfully did not have bloody gloves yet had to open my shirt and drop my pump back in since I had blood up to my wrist. Can you say unprofessional..............
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Permalink Reply by mother4peace - Christine on -
Oh my!! At least it didn't fall into the wound.
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