leaky pump sites
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Hello there, I have a question related to the leacky pump troubles. The thing is that I have never experienced something like thing before, but some months ago I started to experience the leakage of pump sites, and this is really awful, I have tried to do a lot of things in order to stop it, I have tried new typed of sites as well as after observing that this doesn’t work I tried to change the tubing, and nothing changed. I asked my doctor about this but nothing worked at all.. All the advices that I have received till now I have tried any of them trust me, there were some really stupid ones but trust me I was so silly and pissed that even tried those stupid methods. I have to change my clothes 4 times a day because I’m always covered in insulin, my daily routine transformed in continuously washing my clothes. I look like a freak every day when I’m walking around people with a wet spot on my top. I would like to know if any of you have had the similar problem and you may help with solution, I can’t go with it anymore I’m so sick about it, please help.
The only thing that I can recommend you to do is to ask your supplier about a new batch. The thing that worries me the most is the thing that you maybe don’t get enough of your insulin, so I think that you have to solve this problem first. I think that you have to be on alert for ketones if you don’t get all your insulin daily.
I can confirm the same this about faulty batch. The thing is that I have had the same thing that you have experienced previously, and I didn’t know what to do, I asked my supplier and thank God I did it. They told me to change the faulty batch so this is what I did. After this I didn’t had problems with leaky sites anymore. Of course I don’t know for how long it is going to be okay, even my supplier couldn’t tell me, as he said this can be for a long run but for a short run too. Depends on your lucky I suppose.
I use the insight, and 3 times I have had a wet cannula and I found out that this was because of a failure. It’s important for me to understand the right cannula for me, my cannula for the very first beginning was 8mm when actually I needed it to be 6mm, it seems so silly 8mm and 6mm but makes a lot of difference actually when you change it as try again. Now that I’m a little bit more experienced than my first pumping time, my current cannulas doesn’t show any sign of failure, but actually I’m really happy that I’m here and I have the possibility to read all of these posts, at least now I can pay attention to some things that I supposed that never can happen.
Oh God I use Insight too, but I have never experienced something similar ,this is really disturbing especially because I think that I’m going to be more fixed on what can happen and this is bad. Okay, anyway I would like to thank you, some good information for people that are using insulin is always accepted.
You’re welcome, we are here to help, and this is really great that we can do it, a lot of posts here facilitated my life, and I’m happy that I can do the same thing for other people in need. In case you need something else, I’m always here to help, I think same as a lot of other people here. Good luck!
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