From the long list of lesser-known indignities one experiences with diabetes comes the "lumps and bumps" problem… Once once again we'd like to welcome hourlong-time typecast 1 PWD and Columbia University journalism grad bookman Amanda Cedrone to impart her two cents:

Specialised to the 'Mine by Amanda Cedrone

The likes of most populate, I'm non always as hyper-aware of my diabetes American Samoa I should beryllium. While I feel look-alike I have pretty decent control, there are times when my diabetes takes the gage seat to graduate school, my friends, my workout routine…You get the picture.

As well-nig PWDs are aware, it doesn't matter if things are in command "most" of the time — we still abide the consequences of the small fraction of time when they aren't.

For me, when my busy life gets in the way, I slack on my pump sites.

I admit it — I sometimes don't exchange my extract sites often enough, don't take the time to thoroughly disinfect them before applying or after taking them off, and I incline to use the same areas of my body ALL the metre. Cue the looks of disfavour.

Because the two seconds it would take to employ some anti-biotic cream to my heart sites is obviously too much of my precious clock, I have a nice collection of little red bumps in the most-used areas of my body.

I am working on being better at this — disinfecting my sites before and after use, applying antibiotic cream, and rotating where I cast my extract sets. But the red reminders that I was lazy (and probably running tardily) remain.

This is non as serious or American Samoa permanent a problem as lipohypertrophy, the lifelong-terminus fat aggregation low the skin that Amy wrote about latterly; my blood-red bumps mostly depart within a few weeks to few months. But they do bother me — specially on my bottom!

Yes, I use my behind as a pump extract site…. When I started using a pump at age 13, I was really skinny and muscular. Every place I reliable inserting my infusion set immediately turned livid. My rear was the only partly of my body that had fat along it, and was also where I was injecting a majority of my shots, so my parents and I opted to use that as my main site. My tube runs up and around my thigh and I nip off my pump to the waistline of my pants, or if I'm eroding a dress, to my underwear.

It's kind of stuck. I've ne'er had any problems with absorption on that point, and though I have more fat on my body right away and more places to pump, I still use my butt clean frequently. As a result, this is where I have the to the highest degree/worst red lumps and bumps. (Suppose the bumps in the photo of my ramification times 100!)

I searched to see if others have old these bumps as well, and sure enough, they have.

Amy's put up got me thinking — while there may not be much that we can act right now to do away with the lumps under our skin short of plastic surgery, in that respect's got to be something we can manage to eliminate the bumps that are on top of our skin other than ready and waiting about for months in the hopes they'll lessen. Especially with washup case season approaching — WHO wants little Red bumps anywhere along their dead body? Been there, done that during my teenage years.

I did some searching and base at the least a couple remedies that have worked for PWDs in the past.

Tea Tree Cream:

The Diabetes Education Network's Insulin Pump Workbook, early insulin pump guides and fellow PWDs onvarious forums suggest that tea tree bat is helpful in healthful scars caused by insulin pumps.

What IT is: Tea tree cream is made from tea tree anoint, which comes from a tree in Australia called the Narrow-leafed Paperbark, and there's evidence that it's beneficial for several rind-related ailments.

Where to twig: A quick hunt shows that you should be fit to let it at your topical anaestheti pharmacy or health food store. Or, you can dictate it online.

Cost: Depending on where you live, or where you buy in it, around $13 for quaternion ounces.

Maderma:

Another suggestion by fellow PWDs is Maderma.

What it is: A line of products designed to fall the visibility of scars. I bought the scar gel a few months ago merely stimulate yet to try it. (Some other ace of those things that tacks a few unscheduled seconds onto my every day morning routine. It needs to be applied once every day, so that's a full-grown loyalty.)

It's worthy noting that, like most products, in that respect are several generics to choose from likewise.

Where to latch on: Again, online or at your localized pharmacy.

Cost: With 0.7 ounces costing $22.99 at a pharmacy, it's fairly costly. But the generic version is less, costing $16.49 for the same amount at a pharmacy, and only $6.86 along Amazon.

Cromolyn:

Apparently some pediatric endocrinologists recommend this. It's mostly used A an anti-itch remedy for hives.

What it is: apowdercompound that has to be mixed into a cream by a pharmacist, operating room you backside buy over-the-counter products containing this ingredient and make a homemade application. It is applied to the shinny before the pump site is placed.

Where to generate it: You'll need to ask your Doctor of the Church for a ethical drug, and then consume the local chemist's shop prepare the cream. Or, I found single online recipes to make it yourself using nose spray or oculus drops containing cromolyn.

Cost: Depends on your copay, but for intermixture information technology yourself, the eye drops orNasalCrom spray all cost well-nig $9.99.

Unfortunately, these are the solely solutions I found that several PWDs actually testified had helped them. Not much to work with, but IT's something.

Some other PWDs have suggestions connected how to assistance fade unsightly battle scars?