Hi, I've been recently having a lot of anxiety with injecting my lantus and I'm not sure how to make it go away and be able to do it normally again :(
I had a mishap injecting last week Tuesday. I inject 22 units and as I was injecting, the pen seemed to get stuck at 16 and wouldnt go down. I thought it mightve been the way i was holding the pen so i tried adjusting my grip on it, which resulted in a lot of shaking while the needle was still in me. After adjusting, it was easier to inject but I think I pressed down way more fast than i usually do for the rest of the injection. As i removed the needle, i noticed what looked like a LOT of the lantus had leaked from where i injected in my abdomen and was leaking and down and reaching the waistline of my pants. I started freaking out worrying that i wouldnt have enough in me and would go into dka the next day. My bg did end up high throughout the next day, but nowhere near as high as i thought it was going to be.
My issue is that now since that day, whenever I inject I start panicking in fear that the same thing might happen and that more might leak out than had happened before and that i really qould end up in dka. Like I start having trouble breathing, my heart starts pounding, my hand starts shaking, and i get a sensation of something moving down my skin below my injection sites, when in reality every injection ive done since that day has been normal with no leaking.
And now I'm just spending everyday thinking about and constantly dreading my injection at night :( any tips or advice to help me calm down and not worry about it would be really helpful
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