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Originally Posted by Natalie8
Hi again, I'm sorry your eyes are bugging you. The whole eye thing can be SO annoying--for some reason I get more panicked when I am having problems seeing. I did the manual injection today because the auto-stabber has been hurting a lot lately. And the needle practically bounced off my skin when I stuck it in. Now, I'm not sure I want to do the manual anymore.
One other C. question for you. Do you get stuff dripping out of the needle on your skin when you pull it out? Or is that only a problem with the auto-stabber?
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Oh yeah, I have problems with drippy needles too. I usually hold it till it stops dripping, and then try to knock any leftover drippies off into the inside of the cap.
The whole reason I started doing manual injections is because the auto-stabber hurt so badly...which I think could be related to the dull needles. Sharp needles should not hurt as much when being autojected into the skin than a dull needle would.
I was having to wait days and days for the sites to heal before I could get anywhere near them with the auto stabber again. Even rotating and staying at least 2 or 3 inches away from a previous injection site, after a few days, I'd be back to a site that was still really painful. Sometimes I couldnt inject anywhere because I had so many painful injection sites.
Sometimes the injection sites were so sore, and had such a large area that was sore, there was no way I could even inject on that part of the body without having the new injection site mixing with a previous site and making me want to toss the autojector out the window.
When I started to do the manuals, things got better, since I didnt have the autoject stabbing me at 50mph (or whatever speed those things shoot at) and so I ended up having more places to inject.
I dont think I'll ever go back to the auto-harpooner. I'll just get my dad to stab me in the hard to reach places when I need him to.