Please help, this is very difficult.

It is the first time that I participate in a forum or an internet talk but I have touched background and I need help.

I am type 2 diabetic since 2021, all these years with metformin (oral medication) the thing has been maintained but the last 2 analytics have come out somewhat uncontrolled in the glyd hemoglobin value and I have been paid for insulin treatment, which I had toI started 3 weeks ago and that I have been unable to the horrible panic that I have to inject myself.

I knew that being diabetic insulin could arrive at some point in my life, but being type 2 they told me that it would be very long term or even if I managed to maintain controlled levels with diet and exercise pills, but I did not expect at all thatThey were going to put insulin as soon and I am on the verge of depression.

I am 46 years old, I live alone, nobody can help me or encourage this, they have put me insulin of slow action is therefore only a puncture a day and for the moment I have been incapable.

I get a world and I am crying more than in my whole life.So that you get an idea I am the typical person who in the simple blood analytics I am shaking and dizzy, I hate the needles and give me terror.

20 years ago I made a tiny tattoo on an ankle and demalled my impression, imagine what it is for me to tell you that the rest of your life you have to inject every day of your life.

Companions have offered to help me and prick them in the office but ...

What will happen on weekends or in vacation time?

I can't always depend on help ...

I am unable to start the treatment because I see the needle and it makes me dread, please someone in my situation that tells me how it came out of this because I feel that I am not able to be able to inject myself and that this is going to have fatal consequences for my health.

I have thought to ask for second opinion because I know there are specialists who do not prescribe insulin in type 2 diabetics as soon as they first and try more options.

I don't know how to get out of this.

Thank you!!!

Hi @Marisa123, how much I feel what you say, because I have lived it ...
I have dread ... but dread.In the Puff analytics ... it is my worst nightmare (I didn't sleep before the night, or I began to vomit ... a circus -it is also that my veins look fatal and they were linked to me ...-), vaccines ... "well", but seeing people to click on TV, I am therefore terror 🤣🤣🤣
My "trick" when I started as little boy, clicking on a stuff.
You're going to notice the top ... calm.You can do it.
Once I notice that "it is already", I opened/I open my eyes, I put the piston/push and then slowly.To get the needle the same.Close your eyes a little, throw and put the cotton or paper running ...
It's very hard, I know ... and you think you won't be able to, but you can.You can with this and more, and think that your health depends on this.
The phobias are terrible and you have to fight every day with them and it is exhausting.But you will be able to.Surely you have overcome worse things throughout your life.
It is a moment, the needle is very small.
Come!It is once a day ...
Sometimes I keep narrowing my eyes today ... but I don't prevent me from clicking 4-5 times and corrections.
It's okay to help you, and thus "rest", although sometimes you will see with the time you prefer to click you because you do less harm, etc ... etc ...

Diabetes is not a game ... You have to follow the treatment as beautiful.
Come on we are with you!

@Marisa123: Insulin needles are very short (5mm) and fine, they do not resemble the needles that are used to perform analysis.
My advice is that you enter the needle, for example in the outer face of the thigh, very slowly and not "flag" style.
The more you practice, the more you are going to put the injections.
Start today and don't look for other people to put the injection because it will hurt much more.
Courage and you will tell us.
I leave you an explanatory video
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marisa123 said:
is the first time I participate in a forum or an internet talk but I have touched background and I need help.I am type 2 diabetic since 2021, all these years with metformin (oral medication) the thing has been maintained but the last 2 analytics have come out somewhat uncontrolled in the glyd hemoglobin value and I have been paid for insulin treatment, which I had toI started 3 weeks ago and that I have been unable to the horrible panic that I have to inject myself.
I knew that being diabetic insulin could arrive at some point in my life, but being type 2 they told me that it would be very long term or even if I managed to maintain controlled levels with diet and exercise pills, but I did not expect at all thatThey were going to put insulin as soon and I am on the verge of depression.
I am 46 years old, I live alone, nobody can help me or encourage this, they have put me insulin of slow action is therefore only a puncture a day and for the moment I have been incapable.
I get a world and I am crying more than in my whole life.So that you get an idea I am the typical person who in the simple blood analytics I am shaking and dizzy, I hate the needles and give me terror.
20 years ago I made a tiny tattoo on an ankle and demalled my impression, imagine what it is for me to tell you that the rest of your life you have to inject every day of your life.
Companions have offered to help me and prick them in the office but what will happen on weekends or in vacation time?I can't always depend on help ...
I am unable to start the treatment because I see the needle and it makes me dread, please someone in my situation that tells me how it came out of this because I feel that I am not able to be able to inject myself and that this is going to have fatal consequences for my health.
I have thought to ask for second opinion because I know there are specialists who do not prescribe insulin in type 2 diabetics as soon as they first and try more options.I don't know how to get out of this

@Marisa123 You don't know how I understand what you are happening.
To get an idea, when I debuted I was 45 years old and I measure 1.90 and every night I had to prick my wife because I couldn't.
My educator laughed when she told him.
Until I had not been able to prick me more than a year.
I still tremble when I have to click and I have been with the subject for 4 years.Now I click 3 or 4 times a day.
Even when I make the capillaries on my fingers I wound.
Courage, try it.
In the abdomen it hurts less.Take a skin fold and do not hesitate.You will see that nothing hurts.
Come on, you can!

The most normal thing is that you don't know if the needle has entered, if you don't look at
The needle is very thin and short.
I know that the first time is very difficult, but we have all gone through that and we no longer give importance.
For something it will be.
You could go to an association of diabetics, if there is for your area.They can help you a lot.Not only in the puncture.
I am sure you can do it.
A companion hug 😊

@Marisa123 The needle is so small that when I do not wear my glasses or see it and I have to click on the ear :) :)

@marisa, when my daughter debuted the nurse told me that they were àngel hair needles.That helped a lot..
Now they are almost invisible, they are not even needles.
And putting insulin is the least.
It can be a phobia and the treatment is given by psychologists with stuffed animals and things like that .., but if you think it a bit you will see that there is no reason to be afraid of that needle that is not seen.

@Marisa123 Don't you have any trusted neighbor ...?I have also remembered that there was a time when the mother (mayor) of a neighbor of us spent a season here and her daughter (my neighbor) was incapable, and we punctured her my mother and me ...
But it will give you a lot of autonomy to do it alone ...
Come on !!think it's a bad drink only once a day

marisa123 said:
is the first time I participate in a forum or an internet talk but I have touched background and I need help.I am type 2 diabetic since 2021, all these years with metformin (oral medication) the thing has been maintained but the last 2 analytics have come out somewhat uncontrolled in the glyd hemoglobin value and I have been paid for insulin treatment, which I had toI started 3 weeks ago and that I have been unable to the horrible panic that I have to inject myself.
I knew that being diabetic insulin could arrive at some point in my life, but being type 2 they told me that it would be very long term or even if I managed to maintain controlled levels with diet and exercise pills, but I did not expect at all thatThey were going to put insulin as soon and I am on the verge of depression.
I am 46 years old, I live alone, nobody can help me or encourage this, they have put me insulin of slow action is therefore only a puncture a day and for the moment I have been incapable.
I get a world and I am crying more than in my whole life.So that you get an idea I am the typical person who in the simple blood analytics I am shaking and dizzy, I hate the needles and give me terror.
20 years ago I made a tiny tattoo on an ankle and demalled my impression, imagine what it is for me to tell you that the rest of your life you have to inject every day of your life.
Companions have offered to help me and prick them in the office but what will happen on weekends or in vacation time?I can't always depend on help ...
I am unable to start the treatment because I see the needle and it makes me dread, please someone in my situation that tells me how it came out of this because I feel that I am not able to be able to inject myself and that this is going to have fatal consequences for my health.
I have thought to ask for second opinion because I know there are specialists who do not prescribe insulin in type 2 diabetics as soon as they first and try more options.I don't know how to get out of this

@Marisa123
I also had the needles phobia, I was dizzy in the analytics, etc.
When I was diagnosed with diabetes, it seemed like a world to have to prick, then I saw that it was the least.The first time a nurse told me to choose from buttocks, arms, legs or belly and chose arms, and he also told me that the more fear I had the more it would hurt, so I click me with decision and everything perfect.Then I have changed the slow buttocks, because it is better and I have left my arms for the fast (curiously I can't stand to click on the belly, it gives me a lot of grrima, but for that there are places to choose from).
I had separated a year ago so he caught me alone. That I think has made me a stronger and less dependent person for what it was before (you want no, when living as a couple it seems that we "delegate" functions in the other).I tell you what you have to think.
1) You have to do it and if you have to do it how much less importance you give it, then better.Everyone does it alone, you are not going to be the only one you can't.Of course forget that others click you, you just needed to depend on others for the rest of your life.
2) most of the time it does not hurt, or know.The needle is minimal, nothing to do with those of analytics or vaccines.And when it hurts it is little, thousands of daily pains are stronger (a blow with a corner, the rule ...) and we do not make their drama.
3) The consequences of not putting insulin when necessary are very serious.That gives much more fear than a simple puncture.
4) Life puts us many tests, this one, although you have done a world, is easy.I am sure that as soon as you click the first time you will realize that it is nothing.

And my advice to click is that you do it with decision (I have tried to do it slowly and for me it is worse) and something that is going well is to take a lot of air and release it through the strong mouth at the time you click.You don't know.And if you wear pinding glasses without them, or if not, do not look much, just to bring the needle closer.
The first time pine where I least give you.Then I advise you to do it in buttocks because for the slow one it is going well since it is the slowest place.But come on, that is secondary.The fastest site is the belly and I get the quick one in my arms.

The thing is that you start now.As I told you if everyone can not be you less.And those that we live alone are stronger.💪💪💪.
So put on it and tell us your first time.You will freak out of seeing the nonsense of which you have made a world.
Cheer up.

Hi @Marisa123, you don't know how much I turn to you ...
I have been injected and also cost me several days to start it since they prescribed the insulin ... but suddenly one day I threw cushh *** and I could, and I realized that it was not so much.
Over here they say that most of the time it does not hurt and I can assure you that it is true, I am 80% of the time or notice the needle, 20% have bothered me but it can be because there is caught a glass, a nerve orBecause you have punctured yourself (it can happen sometimes), but I will tell you something, even those times that it is upset is something totally bearable, you will not even blink, I promise.
Think that there are children diagnosed with 3 and 4 years by clicking alone (I know cases), if they can too.
I bought the Tickelflex that recommend you up here, and it works great to remove anxiety from the puncture, but today I no longer use it because I have lost my fear totally.
Tamnien there is a device that emits local cold and numbs the area, they sell it on diabetic websites but it is something expensive (above € 100), but if you are so afraid you may try ...
Much encouragement !!Tell us when you can if you have managed to start treatment!

marisa123 said:
is the first time I participate in a forum or an internet talk but I have touched background and I need help.I am type 2 diabetic since 2021, all these years with metformin (oral medication) the thing has been maintained but the last 2 analytics have come out somewhat uncontrolled in the glyd hemoglobin value and I have been paid for insulin treatment, which I had toI started 3 weeks ago and that I have been unable to the horrible panic that I have to inject myself.
I knew that being diabetic insulin could arrive at some point in my life, but being type 2 they told me that it would be very long term or even if I managed to maintain controlled levels with diet and exercise pills, but I did not expect at all thatThey were going to put insulin as soon and I am on the verge of depression.
I am 46 years old, I live alone, nobody can help me or encourage this, they have put me insulin of slow action is therefore only a puncture a day and for the moment I have been incapable.
I get a world and I am crying more than in my whole life.So that you get an idea I am the typical person who in the simple blood analytics I am shaking and dizzy, I hate the needles and give me terror.
20 years ago I made a tiny tattoo on an ankle and demalled my impression, imagine what it is for me to tell you that the rest of your life you have to inject every day of your life.
Companions have offered to help me and prick them in the office but what will happen on weekends or in vacation time?I can't always depend on help ...
I am unable to start the treatment because I see the needle and it makes me dread, please someone in my situation that tells me how it came out of this because I feel that I am not able to be able to inject myself and that this is going to have fatal consequences for my health.
I have thought to ask for second opinion because I know there are specialists who do not prescribe insulin in type 2 diabetics as soon as they first and try more options.I don't know how to get out of this

Marisa 123, your case is the same as mine, came a point where the pills were no longer enough and an ultraltent injection prescribed me at night.The needles of today are tiny and endless, it hurts more to bend the back to collect 50 euros found by the street than El Pinchazito, hehehehe, many times I have to look if I have gotten the water because the sensation has been void.I encourage, you will see that in a few days you are more than accustomed !!!

Well, I am going to tell you that I woke up in an assisted room every time they made me an analytical, I did not remember having fallen, or took my grandfather and palmable her waiting for him to come out.
I went to the phobia with fertility treatments where hormones are punctured and with large matters than insulin.And I don't tell you the heparin.

They do not hurt, I tell you much less than when you hit your elbow, or click with the needle sewing or a fish foam cleaning it.

As it is ultrastone, put it in the buttocks there is nothing.

You tell us, as soon as you wear the first, you will laugh at how silly it is.

Hello everyone again!I update you how the thing is going ...
Well, first of all I wanted to thank you for all the answers and encouragement, I have taken note of all your advice and I really feel very grateful.
I tell you a little how I'm going ...
On Saturday I finally had noses and I dared to prick for the first time, it cost me an hour of watch since I took the pen, but in the end I closed my eyes and nailed it, and the truth is that it hurt.
After reading so many answers where you say many that nothing is noticed, I thought that the feeling was going to be minor and it did bother me a little (totally bearable, yes, but bothered ...)
The liquid when I entered did not notice it, but the puncture does.
As a consequence, I took fear again and yesterday I started again, I was not able again and I could not inject myself, I am the worst, I know.
I got super nervous and nothing, I couldn't ...
I imagine that this process will be like that, little by little, I will click on alternate days when my anxiety allows me until one day sure I overcome it completely and I get the treatment 100% well, but at least I have already given the firstPrick and I'm still alive, something is something.
I take this opportunity to ask you, is it normal for me to hurt?As everyone says it does not hurt, to see if I am doing something wrong ... I click on the outside of the leg, 4 mm needle, (they told me that I had to prick there yes or yes, and the lengthof the needles were the ones that gave me).
I understand that there are shorter needles, should I try to see if it bothers less?
I have also bought the ticketflex that you recommended some, it has not yet reached me ... we will see

@Marisa123
Shorter 4 mm no.It is normal to use 5 mm so you're doing well.
I do not understand about itself or yes to click on the leg, it gives me that it hurts more.Try the buttock.
We have told you that most of the time it does not show, some yes because some nerve or something caught.But as you say is bearable.
However, the consequences of not clicking are serious so do not give it around and put it to it that it is not so much and as soon as you get used to it, the better.

What hurts is the width and not the long needle

Well good, if you have been able to click once you have taken a huge step!Congratulations!

About pain, sometimes he feels a small discomfort, but without more, and sometimes nothing is felt.There is nothing strange, things that happen ...

@Marisa123 Oh, good!Come!For all and?
I tell you one thing ... I am surprised by most of the comments that it does not hurt ... I must be a "melindre", because I do notice the puncture, and it "hurts" (let's see yes ... It is a bearable pain, it is clear!)That's why I told you that even if you close your eyes, with the correct position notes that you are clicking ... especially in the legs (I am where I carry it worse ...)
But in what we all agree, and if you think about it too, it is a minimum pain.Surely you have spent worse!

You have to decide ... having uncontrolled sugar, in the long run can cause you problems (I don't want to scare you but it's like that).So come that you can!With practice everything goes better!

@Marisa123: Congratulations for having taken the first step.
It is important to introduce the needle perpendicular to the skin, at 90 ° angle.
You can take a little pinch with your index finger and thumb, without tightening much and concentrating on that "mountaite" that is where you have to nail the needle and it is not necessary that you enter it "deeply"
Courage and continue practicing!

@Marisa123 mood woman, you have taken an important step

I don't wear on my legs because it hurts a lot.I give you all the reason.

I put the basal in the buttock (in the ass of a lifetime), the 5mm needles are not noticed, sometimes I think I have not punctured and I look to see if insulin has fallen to the ground.

Trick takes a Lorcita if you can and click there, even with the needle slightly inclined, it hurts even less.