Lancet Confession

[VinnyJames]

I use each one about 3 times!!!




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[Indy51]

I use mine until it starts to hurt. Sometimes for weeks at a time

 

[mo1905]

I usually only change every couple of weeks !!!!!

 

[Jaylee]

I can asotiate with this...
Years ago, the old school finger prickers never seemed to go deep enough for me so I used to manually push the lancet into my skin.....

 

[Giverny]

I can asotiate with this...
Years ago, the old school finger prickers never seemed to go deep enough for me so I used to manually push the lancet into my skin.....

I always have to put them on the max depth setting... **** calloused bass player hands!

 

[novorapidboi26]

I use mine until it starts to hurt. Sometimes for weeks at a time

I am exactly the same, or if it starts to become ineffective at the highest setting....

surprisingly my fingers are really soft and free from marks....

 

[Jaylee]

I always have to put them on the max depth setting... **** calloused bass player hands!

About ten years ago I was traveling through South India. I noticed a blister on my index finger. The puss started to creep up the side of the finger to the knuckle? I bought Dettol bottled water, lanced it & treated it my self. Healed up nicely...
Incidentally. I also stopped taking the course of anti malaria tablets prescribed before flying out..
Is it me or do Mosquitos leave diabetics alone??? Lol

 

[hale710]

I try to replace daily..... Usually every 3 or 4 days though!


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[hale710]

About ten years ago I was traveling through South India. I noticed a blister on my index finger. The puss started to creep up the side of the finger to the knuckle? I bought Dettol bottled water, lanced it & treated it my self. Healed up nicely...
Incidentally. I also stopped taking the course of anti malaria tablets prescribed before flying out..
Is it me or do Mosquitos leave diabetics alone??? Lol

Mosquitos have always loved me, both pre and post diagnosis!


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[Jaylee]

Mosquitos have always loved me, both pre and post diagnosis!


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Must just be me then... I found the anti malaria tabs caused mouth users too.. Which cleared up when I stopped pretty much immediately..

I don't have issues with this sort of thing.. Healing & the like..

 

[searley]

I use each one about 3 times!!!




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I have the accuchek fastclix and still find I'm only changing the lancet every week or so!


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[noblehead]

Make a point of rotating the drum with the lancets in at the start of each day.

 

[sanguine]

And there was I thinking it was an article in The Lancet saying how they'd got it all wrong ...

 

[Randburg]

Also change it when it starts to hurt, roughly every 2 weeks.
Use the lowest setting, and have no problems

 

[Nicholas Hoare]

I thought they were like smoke alarm batteries, change once a year but test every day !


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[Joe Sweatthang]

I use 1 per day or 2 days or maybe 3 days. They're such a pain in the @rs3 to change. BTW...mosqueetoze always loved me. Thats how I caught my type 2 ;-)

 

[SamJB]

I change it for every test, unless it's inconvenient. Since I started doing it, I don't get bruising on my finger tips any more.

 

[Riri]

Every other day normally. Mosquitos hate me !

 

[Sarah69]

I go months without changing mine, I don't see the need to change them that often.

 

[noblehead]

I go months without changing mine, I don't see the need to change them that often.

I think that depends on how many times you test a day, I test around 7 times a day so that's 210 finger pricks over a 30 day period, by that time the lancet will well and truly be blunt.