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No it just wouldn't need batteries!How would that work? Wouldn't that require the user to take the wristband off
No it just wouldn't need batteries!How would that work? Wouldn't that require the user to take the wristband off
@NaziaB Im currently using just over 300units of mixed insulin. Next week im starting tresiba and novarapid as sometimes i dont want to eat. Less insulin then.Insulin is only dangerous if you use more than you need. Go and research T2 diabetes, in extreme cases you will find examples of 100's of units per day due to insulin resistance.
I had to buy my own meters just 14yrs ago, even though batteries, test fluids and monitor books/diarys were free from that manufacturer. Test strips were free on nhs on metformin med only treatment.They were expensive and like your trust mine wouldn't provide the meter for free.
It was the only bg meter that I ever bought and I'm sure I paid around £120 for it (it was certainly around the £100 mark anyway). I was single then and had a decent income so money wasn't too much of an issue, but that said at the time £120 was a lot of money.
Plus anyone out there who is rather insulin sensitive, for example, wouldn't use up all of the pen in the 28 days before it starts potentially losing it's efficacy which would result in more waste.
No it just wouldn't need batteries!
Me too. I've had one for the last 8 years or so, only cost about £50 and still works perfectly and never needs a battery!I have a citizen eco watch - had it for years and it is great - about 1an hour of light runs it for about 6 months
Then there was a plastic kit by Hypoguard co. with a screw top tube which you fill with methylated spirit and put your glass syringe in it. This saved the hassle of boiling it. But you had to make sure all the spirit had evaporated from the syring before drawing up insulin from a vial otherwise you might end up injecting some spirit as well apart from damaging the insulin too. Weren't things so complicated back then?My first insulin pen in 1962 was glass and metal with a big needle and you had to boil it to sterilise it. How times have changed. All for the better.
And because the strips were not available on prescription and so expensive you were advised to split them in two to make them last longer and you could even buy a splitting kit to make it easier!!@GrantGam From what I recall, the main reason the manufacturers moved to 3ml carts was the increase in T2 users with greater insulin needs. Many T2s were going through 1.5ml carts in a day or less, os it made sense to give them more.
@noblehead I remember the Refloflux S and desperately wanting one to use with my "Blood on, wait 60 seconds, wipe, wait another 60 seconds" visual BM strips, but they were ridiculously expensive and our local health board wouldn't supply them to patients.
My toujeo300 has strong warning on every pen not to use out of pen!!!Units per ml is generally 100 (U100).
But there are vials of U500 Humulin R which we import from USA - here it is equivalent to humulin S
There is U200 Humalog, and U300 glargine is Toujeo.
I think for animal use, one can still find older strengths such as U40.
So lots of scope for error if folk draw insulin out of a stronger preparation in a pen with a U100 syringe.
Interesting article:-
http://www.bjd-abcd.com/index.php/bjd/article/view/119/248