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How often do you get bruises at injection sites or device sites?
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When I was injecting often. Omnipod and Dexcom sensors make me bleed sometimes.
I get yellow bruises.
Not often, but if I get a lot of blood at my Dexcom site when placed, it won’t work. It runs low, I calibrate, then pauses and asks for another calibration, etc. Now I just pull it and get it replaced, it cannot correct itself if there is visible welling of blood. This makes sense- the blood is out of circulation in that instance, and the RBC’s eat the glucose and don’t allow it to equilibrate with the interstitial fluid. If it is a pump, it bleeds a lot when pulled- likely went through a vein, and like pulling a finger from the dike, it floods upon removal.
Since I’ve been on a blood thinner for the last 3 months it has been more frequent. Before that, rarely.
Often was selected, although CGM’s probably never. The blood thinners that can kill you (double the dose & you’ll probably die), seem to make the pump insert sites worse. They swell up and redden a bit, often lasting for a day or two after removal. I always wipe the reddened old sites with IV prep. It seems to lessen the irritation. ā ā
sometimes when I remove a quickset it bleeds profusely.
Sometimes, used to be regularly when I was on Lo-Dose Aspirin but have been off any blood thinning drugs for over 5 years.
I don’t bruise but I can definitely swell, bleed and/or feel that I have injected it into muscular or some other tissue that says I don’t want to move while wearing this insert. I don’t have a lot of fat and have to use the short inserts at low angles.
I said rarely although when u do bruise it sends to come in clusters.
I never get what I would call bruises. But I rarely get a small pink bump that goes away on its own.
It depends on if I’ve a heparin flush recently or not. I bruise a lot easier after one, in general.
With pump sites I have to be very careful to avoid scar tissue. Have had far more lasting bruises from CGM application and removal.
Injections often, infusion sets rarely.
I bruise easily in general because of low platelets (which are also larger than normal… I don’t understand it all, but there it is). I also have low protein (and low B12 and D.) I’m not on any medication to make my blood slow to clot, it just happens naturally.
I also get the occasional gush of blood when taking a pump site out. Those potential gushers always make taking the site out just a little exciting, never knowing what one is going to have to deal with! ;p
I get that too, from pump and cgm. I sometimes can’t believe how much blood can come out of such a tiny hole.
Touch wood it has never happened but when I get my blood drawn that may bruise the odd time depending on whoās doing the blood draw.
From the Omnipod, sometimes, but I think it’s more from the pod itself than the injection. It’s usually around the edges, like I leaned on it and put pressure on it. Don’t recall a Dexcom bruise, but very occasionally it will bleed like crazy when I insert one. I sometimes get tiny little circle bruises from finger sticks.
When I was MDI, I bruised at almost every shot! My stomach was a mess. Now I am on the pump with my DEX and rarely do I bruise!
I get bruises mush more often now, I started using t-slim steel cannulas and they do cause more bruising but my absorption is good.
Very rarely, my infusion site (Autosoft XC from Tandem) will leave a bruise. I’ve had very rare bruising under the Dexcom G6 sensor if I’ve laid on it during sleep or if I’ve bumped it on a door, etc. Bruising doesn’t happen often.
I’m on two blood thinners (low dose aspirin & Plavix) and another med that can cause more bleeding. When on MDI I injected in my stomach and ended up with a HUGE bruise, at least a foot square. Happened once in 33 years. Now I use a pump with a Dexcom G6. I always bruise from the CGM placement and sometimes from infusion sets.