Re: How many of us r winps like me and still use numming cream for putting in sites???

Sarah

HeatherTitus

Where do you guys put your inserts regularly? I need help getting her to take the chance in other spots...where is good?

 

 

Heather-

I would have her try using her butt. It might sound weird or uncomfortable at first, but it actually isn't that bad.

That's my advice too. I first put it in my butt at camp, when I had a failed site in my stomach, and I thought it would be horrible but it's fine. A bit uncomfortable sometimes but you get used to it.

I think this is a rather new thing that their offering because inserting the pump can sometimes hit a spot that really makes it hurt. When I was working at my local diabetes camp as a medstaff this past summer, they said they recently saw an explosion of doctors offering this in the past 2 years. But the nurse and some doctors were also saying that they're trying to wean some people off it because kids are putting off inserting their pumps when they should be inserted immediately for instance if it gets pulled out and could be going 30 mins-1hr w/o their pump which is not good. Just food for thought!!! But to be honest when I first got the pump 10 years ago...I wish I had that option to not make me so scared about inserting it way back then!

I'm a wimp. I still use numbing cream too. I've had diabetes for almost 11 years, been pumping for about 7 years and I still get scared and have to use numbing cream. Sometimes I forget or run out or miss place it and can't use it and it doesn't hurt really. I just don't really like the feeling of it going in.

i was diagnosed when i was 4 so i do not remember exactly what happened. but i do remember that at first, i didn't want to take shots so my dad would take a shot of saline when i had to take my insulin shot..and he did that for like 3 months or something. not that i am suggesting that any parents take unnecessary shots, haha thinking back, i can't believe my dad did that for me! but when he stopped, we used to slap where i would give my shots to numb it. it was often my leg but then when i was 7 and too old for "slap happy pappy" as we called it, i went to pinching my arm and giving it myself.

then when i got my pump (6 years ago this past august), i used to ice my site for like an hour before i changed it, but that actually did more harm than good. sure, it hurt less, but sometimes the skin got so cold it was almost frozen, which in turn resulted in my blood sugar being high after changing my site because the insulin couldn't absorb through the frozen layers of skin, i guess haha. and then i must have gotten a scratch from the ice pack because i got a weird skin infection around my tailbone, which must have happened while i was icing my site (since i put my pump in my lower back/hip area).

but i didn't actually stop icing my site until this past february, and it was actually a result of my laziness..haha. i was at winter camp and didn't bring an ice pack and didn't want to go put snow in a bag to numb my site. of course, it took me like 25 minutes to get over the anxiety of not numbing it first, but all my friends (none of who numb their sites) were cheering me on haha and then when i finally put my site in, i realized that it was only a mental thing that kept me from changing my pump without icing. once i realized that, i haven't iced my site since, i am proud to say. hahah i mean, it took me 5 1/2 years to get over that mental anxiety, so i totallllllly understand where you are coming from, ahah and take your time, you will come to the same realization i did eventually(:

plus, since i don't ice anymore, my numbers aren't high after changin my pump! wooooht, i cracked the code. FINALLY haha.

hoopppee my little anecdote helped(:

Courtenay

i had the option of putting some numbing cream on for my first infusion set but decided not to. and most of the time it doesnt hurt badly, i can feel it go in most of the time but thats it. i am scared when removing the needle. my mom does that and puts the infusion set in.

Like she said i had the option but then i kept losing the cream and the site kept losing the stickyness and it just made more issues for me i think. Hope my avice helps : )

There's numbing cream?!?!?!?! WHat?!?!?! 

Well I guess it's too late now. It's not putting a new one on, but taking the old one out that hurts for me. 

the numbing cream is amazing i was perscribed it when i was in 4th grade and i am 16 and still use it just for secrurity i guess

I feel like it barely even helps. I was diagnosed in 3rd grade in December 2007 and got the pump in May 2008 and got the numbing cream then. I mean obviously when the pump trainer and stuff did it the first time, she didn't use any, but after the first time of using it I felt like I had to every time or it would hurt..and my dad still puts the sites on for me and I really haven't been brave enough to give myself a shot yet because I haven't HAD to yet.. I'm sure if I were somewhere far away and something happened to my pump and I had to give a shot myself, I could pull myself together and do it, but given the choice, I let my family do them for me..(:

it only stays on at least half an hour b4 and it is great for any age in any spot :)