Hi, i just wanted to share what for me has been a really big step forward.
After being diagnosed as type 1 back in August last year ( i'm 46), i have found the daily grind of pricking my fingers in order to test my glucose the biggest annoyance. I use both sides of each finger but most are bruised and have developed hard skin around them already.
Anyway, i've been using a Glucojet (Dual Plus) pricker which uses individual lancets, and always had them set on 1 or 2 to get blood. 2 weeks ago my diabetic team changed me to a new meter ( Accu-Check Aviva expert) and along with it came a new finger pricker, an Accu-Check FastClix. It comes with six lancets in a cartridge that you rotate after each use. Now maybe the spring mechanisms are different, maybe having the lancets in a cartridge allows them to be narrower, but whatever the reason, boy is it easier. It is "almost" pain free and certainly 60% of the time i don't even notice it has clicked, but the blood is there.
It's been a real negative for me, so finally finding something that is such an improvement i thought was good to share with anyone else suffering from bruised fingers
Al.
https://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/products/fingerprickers/fastclix.html
After being diagnosed as type 1 back in August last year ( i'm 46), i have found the daily grind of pricking my fingers in order to test my glucose the biggest annoyance. I use both sides of each finger but most are bruised and have developed hard skin around them already.
Anyway, i've been using a Glucojet (Dual Plus) pricker which uses individual lancets, and always had them set on 1 or 2 to get blood. 2 weeks ago my diabetic team changed me to a new meter ( Accu-Check Aviva expert) and along with it came a new finger pricker, an Accu-Check FastClix. It comes with six lancets in a cartridge that you rotate after each use. Now maybe the spring mechanisms are different, maybe having the lancets in a cartridge allows them to be narrower, but whatever the reason, boy is it easier. It is "almost" pain free and certainly 60% of the time i don't even notice it has clicked, but the blood is there.
It's been a real negative for me, so finally finding something that is such an improvement i thought was good to share with anyone else suffering from bruised fingers
Al.
https://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/products/fingerprickers/fastclix.html
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