Am I allergic to a clean brand of pen needles?

I had to get a new brand of pen needles ultimate time at the pharmacy (they were apparently out of the Novopen brand). They're 2mm longer, also.
ed it for the second time in my leg today and a few things happened. 1st, I started to inject it and it really hurt, so I took it out. Then I tried again and get it in. It hurt really badly, but I just get past the hurting part. I finished.

Then I got up and my leg started itching approaching nuts. Just around the injection site.

Am I allergic to the pen needles? Or did I hit a rough patch of skin or something?

It went away in about 1 hour but it hurts at touch presently and I have some red spot things around it.
Answers:     it's next to impossible to be allergic to needles since there is no protein (allergen) present in the syringe. you probably just hit a patch of scar tissue, especially since this needle is longer. this happen to all of us once in awhile.
that can happen if you use alcohol and don't hang around long enough for it to dissipate and then injecting. you essentially pull the alcohol into the site. the bigger the nozzle the more its gonna hurt. and the more chance of pulling alcohol into the site. when I was injecting I just used dampen and soap.
I occassionally get that itchy bump, called an injection site impulse. Different areas of the body can be more sensitive than others (I'm allergic to my favorite shampoo, but only break out around my feet when I use it).
w times I've even leadked white stuff afterwards and then a bump appeared (not sure what that manner, but I'll remember to ask the doctor about it someday- fat leak? pocket of pus? alien embryo?).

It isn't necessarily the plunger, although it is always a possibility they were not sterile (very slight chance of that). I hold gotten brand new dull needles more than once (usually a store's brand).

It's possible that the insulin itself is the problem (I've ditched a few bottles in my time because of odd reactions) or you could inject at an angle with longer needles (to hold on to the insulin in the fat tissue rather than the muscle).

If it happen again, talk to your doctor about it.
it could be alcohol, you could be allergic. for instance, some needles use latex, which many citizens are allergic to. If it happens again, ask your doctor or a pharmacist.


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