First time this has happened. It didn’t hurt, and the sensor is still reading. Maybe I’ll stick to the back of my arm. What’s that hole there for anyhow? To prevent suction?
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That Red River doesn’t detract from nice skin. The skin on my arms is toast from 75 years of Texas sun. So far only actinic keratosis, precancers that my dermatologist takes great joy in freezing them.
Sorry about the bleed. I suspect you nicked a capillary. Once with G6! I hit a nerve that sent an electric shock to my hand. I didn’t change it, but the sensation lasted a while but reduced from tha original shock.
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Oh wow! That sounds painful!
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@Liam-M sometimes says insertions hurt, like chronically, in certain spots. We’ve even changed them out due to the pain and sometimes bleeding in certain spots. I attribute that to the same cause experienced here…hitting a capillary / nerves / vein in just the wrong spot.
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I have an area right and below the navel (yes more than 2" from the navel), that would cause sharp pain 8-9 out of 10 when injecting insulin.
Reminds me of a joke
“Doc, it hurts when I bend my finger like this”
Doc: “Just don’t do that.”
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That’s my wife’s favorite line…
Me: “Hon, my neck hurts when i turn it this way.”
Her: “Don’t turn it that way.”
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Sop up the blood until it clots and the sensor should read just fine.
The introducer needle goes through there to poke the sensor wire into your body.
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That happened to me once too. Made a nice sized pool of blood in the sink. Those G7 inserters are unforgiving. (A+ post title, though!)
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Hi @jo_jo sometimes the bleeders take a little extra time to settle down, but then they usually turn out to have better than average performance.
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Moms excel at that kind of answer. When I was a kid I once heard a friend’s mom give the same pat answer my own did, and I became convinced that all mothers went to some kind of summer camp where they were taught these lines.
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That happened to me too - when I tried the sensor on the back of my arm. So I went back to my stomach.
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Cool!
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With G6 I could pull the applicator and my skin before triggering. This prevented hitting muscle. I had best results using the upper arm than abdomen.
With G7 it is required to press the applicator firmly to trigger. That concerned me, but so far no issues.
@jo_jo Nice one! I take it your arm was bent when it happened and accounts for the forearm portion. I’ve had similar happen with both Dexcom (G6, vice G7) and once a Dash pod did in a set of pajama’s (I didn’t notice the bleeder until it soaked the tops and bottoms pretty well! Must of been an impressive flow rate!). There’s a vein in my arm I try to avoid though! Like @elver, I’ve never had a bleeder interfere with operational success, either CGM or pod. And as @bkh says, that’s for the needle injection to get the wire inside you, though it does allow for air, blood, sweat, etc, to get out! @ClaudnDaye and @CarlosLuis , I had a similar experience with G7 once, seemed like an electric wire went from the G7 on my upper arm down to the finger tips! Glad it only happened the one time! @Beacher I like the mom/grandma conspiracy theory…there’s got to be a camp they go to!
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I think it is an unintended consequence of the “Mother’s Curse;” “May you have a daughter just like you!” After a few generations the effect multiplies.
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I’m not sure if it was bent or strait, I didn’t even notice it right away, but it makes sense based on the pattern of the stream! I hope to never experience the electric shock feeling.
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I hope you never do, but it will wake you up.
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The worst bleeder I’ve had was actually an Omnipod..on the way back underneath part of my upper arm. It hurt like heck when inserted but did not bleed. After about 18 hours I gave up on that pod dye to high BG and deactivated/yanked it off. That is when the gusher started. My theory is I hit a vein or artery with the cannula.
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Yikes!
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I’ve had only a few minor bleeds with the Dexcom, one where it dripped a little and I ended changing it out as it was on my arm and the patch looked gruesome after.
I had a LIbre that I got a bruise, 1/4 to a 1/2 inch almost completely around, no bleed, looked nasty, but over the next few days I pulled it off wondering what was going on under the sensor. Nothing much!!! I’m assuming the edge of the sensor caused it and it spread outward.
And Omnipods… there is an area on my stomach that when I’ve taken them off, not always, but I can bleed like crazy, gushers that take 10 minutes plus of pressure to stop. I’ve taken to automatically holding an alcohol cotton pad under that area ready to pounce right away. Too many things have gotten soaked with blood! It happened once when I wasn’t prepared at the hospital before an MRI and nothing in the changing room. I poked my head outside holding it with my finger and asked if I can I get some tissues and they took one look and I got a tissue box, alcohol swabs, a bandage and an attendant who I had to assure I was completely fine.
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