Tresiba 3ml cartridge pen

[chrisbug]

Hi,
Could anyone please offer some advice? I am currently on Humulin I as my long acting insulin and soon to be put on Tresiba, I have just had a phone conversation with my nurse at my GPs who has put together the prescription.
The tresiba has been requested in 3ml cartridges and a NOVO PEN ECHO has been ordered to deliver the tresiba.
Is this correct? I cant find anything on-line to verify a suitable pen for tresiba.
Cheers

 

[searley]

That's correct

Tresiba is made by nivonordisk

So any of the novopens will work.. The echo just has a digital readout on the end to indicate how long since your last dose


Just remember that tresiba takes about 3 days or so to build up in your system and to start working properly

Any dose changes take upto 3 days to take effect too

 

[chrisbug]

Hi Searley, thanks for your response. That has put my mind at ease as I sensed a bit of uncertainty on the phone.
Thanks

 

[searley]

Hi Searley, thanks for your response. That has put my mind at ease as I sensed a bit of uncertainty on the phone.
Thanks

Would normally be a standard novopen not the echo but they take the same cartridges

Hope it works for you.. I was on it for about 5 years

 

[oldgreymare]

I use Tresiba cartridges in a Novopen Echo. The Echo pen allows 0.5 unit doses plus a memory indicator of how long since last injection (handy if you have my memory!). As @searley mentions, Tresiba takes some days to build up - I switched straight from Levemir to Tresiba, then suffered a couple of unpleasant days as the Levemir had cleared my system, but the Tresiba was not yet operating at full strength. Maybe taper the transition from Humilin.

 

[kaylz91]

Yes but remember to save yourself extra injecting if you ever reach near 30U of Tresiba to ask for a NovoPen 5, the Echo can only do 30U and 0.5 increments but the NovoPen 5's max is 60U in 1U increments xx

 

[22nw22]

Hi,
Could anyone please offer some advice? I am currently on Humulin I as my long acting insulin and soon to be put on Tresiba, I have just had a phone conversation with my nurse at my GPs who has put together the prescription.
The tresiba has been requested in 3ml cartridges and a NOVO PEN ECHO has been ordered to deliver the tresiba.
Is this correct? I cant find anything on-line to verify a suitable pen for tresiba.
Cheers

Wait are tresiba cartridges actually a thing? I didn’t know that. I get disposable pens for it, I hope you get along with the Tresiba anyway

 

[searley]

They do indeed do cartridges

 

[chrisbug]

Hi,
Thanks for the responses! I was taking 12 units of Humulin I at bedtime, I've begun my Tresiba on 10 units, give it a week to settle in and it's been 5 days now. (Took a while to establish that BD microfine needles do in fact fit NovoPen).
It appears I'm getting much more stable results throughout the day already