As you suggested, I have started a thread about the Timesulin and was pleased with the replies. However, after going on the website to purchase one, it tells me they don't yet manufacture the gadget for certain pens, mine being one of them. Will wait until someone comes up with the goods.
The lantus cartridges will fit into the solastar junior pens which do half units i hve one if you want it as im on different insulin now
Sorry dodo just read through rest of posts and its a digitsl display one you want sorry cant help there
Thank you for your offer but the half units aren't what I need. It was the digital time reminder that interested me but I'm sure in time someone will make one before my memory goes completely. Maybe I should write that I've already had my Lantus injection on the bathroom mirror in lipstick so I know not to have a second injection.Sorry dodo just read through rest of posts and its a digitsl display one you want sorry cant help there
Don’t know if you reuse needles or not (I’m naughty and only change it when I change the pen/cartridge) but if you take the needle off immediately after your injection and bin it, then a pen with no needle would indicate that you’ve done your shot? Then just put a fresh one on when it’s injection time? Rather than leave the needle on until the next shot and change it, if that makes sense?
That does make sense but I guess I'm like you and don't change my needle every time (old habits die hard when you remember the time when you had to keep re-using them over and over, and needed to boil them about once a week to sterilise them).
When I was first diagnosed as a student in 98, they’d just made pens available, so I never did syringes. Problem was, I had to buy the needles! And at £20 for a box, I made them LAST. And last. And.... old habits die hard, and I still don’t change it as often as I should!
I actually think your idea is good and was thinking about doing just that. Great minds! Obviously, I also remember when we had to buy our own needles. In fact, my pharmacist at the time complained to the BMA about it because, as she told me, if I was a drug addict I would be getting them free.
I was trying to think of something similar to what I do when I ride my motorbike. I have a padlock thing on the front brake disc that can do a fair bit of damage if you ride away without taking it off - everyone does it once! So I use a little bit of plastic tube - when I lock the bike I put the tube on the shaft of the ignition key, so I can’t start the bike. Once I’ve taken the lock off, I put the tube on the key for the lock.
Thank you for your reply and I hope your son is doing ok. I already use the Novo Echo pen for my Novorapid, which is brilliant because of the digital display. What I was looking for was something similar to use for my Lantus but there isn't anything. The Juniorstar is manufactured by Sanofi and they have already informed me that they don't make pens with a digital display.
