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To much baggage

caretaker

caretaker

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essex
Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Pump
Everyone with type 1 must feel the same' unless you use something like pump/combo to smart device Lucky You.
i use a nano BG monitor which is quite small but why do they need to make the test stripe pots so big and the finger pricker is the size of an insulin pen And as for insulin pens i only need it for a day out not for a trip to the arctic
comment like is that an insulin pen in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me. i can put up with.
I just wish it was not from the milkman:(
 
I know how you feel ! I finally gave in to the "man bag" lol !
 
Even on a pump have to carry bg monitor, strips, lancets etc. and if going further than.usual.from home a spare pen and needles as back up incase pump fails. If going on hols need all above plus the extra cannulas, tubes, inserter. So really, have to carry more, and the pump lol

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brett said:
Even on a pump have to carry bg monitor, strips, lancets etc. and if going further than.usual.from home a spare pen and needles as back up incase pump fails. If going on hols need all above plus the extra cannulas, tubes, inserter. So really, have to carry more, and the pump lol

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oooh what a lot of bother.. If that was me, I'd be staying close to home, for sure. :inpain:
 
caretaker said:
Everyone with type 1 must feel the same' unless you use something like pump/combo to smart device Lucky You.
i use a nano BG monitor which is quite small but why do they need to make the test stripe pots so big and the finger pricker is the size of an insulin pen And as for insulin pens i only need it for a day out not for a trip to the arctic
comment like is that an insulin pen in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me. i can put up with.
I just wish it was not from the milkman:(
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You can get smaller lancet pens... I have one, about 30% smaller. And the pots for the CodeFree strips is slimmer than usual.
 
caretaker said:
Everyone with type 1 must feel the same' unless you use something like pump/combo to smart device Lucky You.
i use a nano BG monitor which is quite small but why do they need to make the test stripe pots so big and the finger pricker is the size of an insulin pen And as for insulin pens i only need it for a day out not for a trip to the arctic
comment like is that an insulin pen in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me. i can put up with.
I just wish it was not from the milkman:(
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It would be great to have a lancer as small as the Nano meter with some separate individually sealed bg strips, that way it could all fit in a pocket quite easily.

I like it when I go out for the day with my wife as everything goes in her handbag :D
 
noblehead said:
It would be great to have a lancer as small as the Nano meter with some separate individually sealed bg strips, that way it could all fit in a pocket quite easily.

I like it when I go out for the day with my wife as everything goes in her handbag :D
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Haha, thats what I do when out and about with my wife. I'm sure she got a magic bag, its like a portable tardis.

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Smaller isn't always better I've got a new Bg star with attendant finger pricker and I hate it. It's tiny and I thought that would be great but it's flimsy and I often have to struggle to get the pricker to work efficiently. (on top of that I've had readings that have varied by 50mg/dl within minutes) Unlike people in the UK, I'm stuck with it for another 4 years.
 
phoenix said:
Smaller isn't always better I've got a new Bg star with attendant finger pricker and I hate it. It's tiny and I thought that would be great but it's flimsy and I often have to struggle to get the pricker to work efficiently. (on top of that I've had readings that have varied by 50mg/dl within minutes) Unlike people in the UK, I'm stuck with it for another 4 years.
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That's a shame Phoenix, is it a bit like the Accu-Chek Mobile only smaller, I couldn't get away with the Mobile and found it rather awkward to use.
 
I don't think I've seen a mobile. I was a bit limited as I wanted one that I could get strips in the UK for . I think it was basically that or a Xceed.
 
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I don't think I've seen a mobile. I was a bit limited as I wanted one that I could get strips in the UK for . I think it was basically that or a Xceed.
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The lancer is attached to the meter and instead of test strips the meter has a cassette, I think the meter itself is a little smaller now than when I first used it but still wouldn't use it, if it were all the size of the Nano meter then we'd be talking.
 
Why bother to use a finger pricker "the size of an insulin pen"?

Why not just use a bare lancet? - it will sit happily in your pot of sticks. (The ones I use have a replaceable plug for the point.)

And why bother to use an insulin pen. Why not simply use disposable syringes?

Doctors and nurses sometimes administer insulin to diabetic patients in hospitals. But they wouldn't normally use an insulin pen to do that. They're far too clunky and impractical.

Okay, it is at first a little bit tricky drawing out the insulin when it only comes in a pen-injector cartridge. (One has to simultaneously push gently, with one's finger tip, on the rubber bung at the bottom end of the cartridge.) But you soon get used to it. (Mercifully, because it's used a lot in hospitals, Actrapid will always be available in ordinary glass phials.)

Most of the time, I don't use a meter to test my blood sugar. Instead, I use visually read strips. (http://www.betachek.com/uk/) They're cheaper, simpler, and far more practical and portable. For readings below around 8mmol/l, they're really quite accurate. For low readings, I find them to be very accurate.

I just thank God I was diagnosed with diabetes 30 years ago, rather than now. With all the ****** equipment, and all the stupid 'carb counting' (part and parcel of the unrealistic aim for 'normal eating'), I'm pretty sure that I would give up bothering to try to manage my condition. I'm certain that's just what many newly diagnosed people do - especially young people.

Meters are very useful, no doubt about it. It's 11.00pm, and now I use a meter. And my reading is 3.4. So I eat a little over half a slice of the Co-op's wholemeal bread. I also take a small amount of Insulatard (to stop my blood sugar rising overnight). And since there is no other insulin now active within me, I know I'll be safe until the morning: my blood sugar will be near normal (I expect 5 or 6mmol/l), and I shall begin all over again.
 
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