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Re-using lancets?

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Kjell

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It seems a waste to only use a lancet (accu-check) once if I'm the only one using it . How many times do other people use them, please?
 
Kjell said:
It seems a waste to only use a lancet (accu-check) once if I'm the only one using it . How many times do other people use them, please?
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I have a Accu-Chek Fastclix. I change the lancet every time I start a new tub of 50 strips, so a six lancet magazine lasts me 3 x 100 boxes of strips.
 
I use to be really bad at changing them, I still have a box of unused lancets from 2006. Yikes!
But I’ve been getting better at changing them because it gets quite painful with a very used lancet
 
MeiChanski said:
But I’ve been getting better at changing them because it gets quite painful with a very used lancet
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It's not hard to change a six lancet magazine on a Accu-Chek lancing device.

Pull the cap off, remove old magazine, replace with a new magazine, put cap back on...
 
I just use a bare lancet, no delivery device at all, and I generally change them when they get blunt and I find it difficult to get enough blood out when I stab my finger. Sometimes I just change them because I feel like I haven't changed one for a while. I'm guessing I probably get between 10 and 50 stabs per needle....
 
About every 3 months/when it gets so worn it no longer draws blood

It's been so long since I got some on prescription that my gp has removed them from my repeat
 
EllieM said:
I've never bothered to put them on prescription, I just get a new box of lancets every couple of years.....:)
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The same here, they are not subsidised by the NDSS so pay the full price for them around $20.00.
 
I suppose check with a well used Lancet then try again with a new one, if not much difference then carry on re using Lancets
 
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