# Getting Down and Dirty: admit it here **URL:** \ **Category:** Fun\ **Created:** [May 27, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069 "2017-05-27T19:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![daisymae](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/daisymae/32/1199_2.png) [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/1 "2017-05-27T19:01:41Z")
just thought i would open up a thread about some of the things we have done that we’ve been told **not** to do. i must admit that i have given myself an injection through my jeans while taking NYC public transportation , in the back of a taxi cab and under a table at a social event. i have done a BG test w/out washing my hands, cleaning my fingers, or at the very least, wiping them clean on a napkin. share your “dirty little secrets” here. ---
**Author:** ![CatLady](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/catlady/32/36_2.png) [@CatLady](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/2 "2017-05-27T19:11:43Z")
Hubby and I were talking about injections through jeans and speculated that the fabric of women’s jeans is less resistant to a jab whereas the fabric of men’s jeans would require a longer syringe tip for pen users! ---
**Author:** ![Kaelan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/kaelan/32/989_2.png) [@Kaelan](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Kaelan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/3 "2017-05-27T19:31:11Z")
The endocrinologist tells me I should wait until my peak gets highest to dose. But I always dose when it hits 130. I just guess how high it will go. It’s weird because the one who told me is a T1 also. It just doesn’t make sense. During the day in school I don’t wash my hands before I test, unless I ate sugar. I have to take a lot of carbs at night when I go low. But I don’t brush my teeth afterwards. What I do is that I drink milk with a straw so it won’t get on my teeth too much. At parties I don’t wait 30 minutes before eating. ---
**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/4 "2017-05-27T19:37:18Z")
Sometimes…I…inject…intravenously… ---
**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/5 "2017-05-27T19:41:47Z")
I frequently drink Mojito’s to treat a low (I tried Martini’s, but they didn’t work). ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/1X/2ab2911beedf7eec5aef647e31b3b8097b55b8ba.png) ---
**Author:** ![Kaelan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/kaelan/32/989_2.png) [@Kaelan](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Kaelan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/6 "2017-05-27T19:42:42Z")
> [@Eric](#): > > Sometimes…I…inject…intravenously… Which is quite fine for @Eric, who is an experienced diabetic, but would NOT be a god thing to do on his own for a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/7 "2017-05-27T20:47:04Z")
6 posts were split to a new topic: [Alcohol, lows and spikes](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/alcohol-lows-and-spikes/1072) ---
**Author:** ![daisymae](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/daisymae/32/1199_2.png) [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/8 "2017-05-27T21:53:15Z")
> [@Can you treat lows with a sweet cocktail?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/can-you-treat-lows-with-a-sweet-cocktail/1072/6): > > Poor DM poor poor DM. i also wanted to say that i use the excuse of having a “dangerously high” BG to get out of family social events (“i must rush home and give myself a manual injection”). my husband is in on this sham as well. and the funny thing is that the next day (or later that night) i get all sorts of sympathy calls. (" are you feeling better? " i’m so sorry that happened. did everything work out" etc. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/9 "2017-05-27T23:22:25Z")
Shame on you poor poor DM! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Eric](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/eric/32/9209_2.png) [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/10 "2017-05-29T15:36:52Z")
> [@daisymae](#): > > share your “dirty little secrets” here. I don’t use a bolus calculator. I just look at the food and decide how much insulin to take. ---
**Author:** ![CatLady](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/catlady/32/36_2.png) [@CatLady](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/getting-down-and-dirty-admit-it-here/1069/11 "2017-05-29T16:16:44Z")
And I bolused off my Dex long before doing so was officially approved (as I bet many of us have).