can I use the lancets more than once ?

[Charis1213]

They are so expensive , I've just ordered more and its cost me £15 for lancets and testing strips .

Cheers

 

[Muneeb]

You are not supposed to. But I have done for many years, they become more blunt so healing of fingers may take longer if reused.

 

[Charis1213]

You are not supposed to. But I have done for many years, they become more blunt so healing of fingers may take longer if reused.

do you sanitise the needle before reuse or pour boiling water over it ?

 

[Deleted Account]

The advice I was given when first diagnosed was to use my lancet twice without any need to sterilise the needle.
15 years later, I still try to do this, don't have sore fingers, or blunt lancets.
I guess I may be able to use them more times but only do this when I forget to change them (or don't take enough our with me).

 

[LittleGreyCat]

I don't.

However as a fairly well controlled long term T2 I don't test all day every day.

I tend to change the lancet when I haven't tested for a while or if it starts to hurt more than expected.

 

[Antje77]

I use them for months at a time without doing anything to clean them. I test something like 4 times a day. It's not recommended though.

 

[LooperCat]

I’ve just done my annual lancet change

 

[porl69]

You will get many varied answers on this subject. I use a Fastclix with the drum cylinder with 6 lancets in it. I change drum every 3 days....

 

[bulkbiker]

Used to change mine monthly.. now can't remember when I last did it..still have about 280 of the 300 I originally bought 3 years ago!

 

[Bluetit1802]

I certainly don't change mine. I also use a Fastclix lancet device that has a drum of 6 lancets inside. I still have the very first box I bought, well over 4 years ago.

 

[britishpub]

.......when you finally end up clicking the lever, and the number goes from 6 to 5........the first "prick" is heaven

Yes, I don't change my lancet too often, and still have a box of 300 well over half full.

 

[Muneeb]

do you sanitise the needle before reuse or pour boiling water over it ?

I've never done that, but as others have said I use the 6 lancet drum on the accu check mobile, so if removed you cant reinsert. But even on my older machines I never sanitized the needle.

 

[FantomPoet]

I honestly can't remember when I changed mine last. I would only click to the next one if it hurt (more than once)

 

[bangkokdiabetic]

I change mi Lantus pen about once a month and change the needle at the same time Í inject twice a day. My Finger Pricker I change when it begins to heart I use FastClix and I drum lasts approx. I year I test normally twice a day with extra test for new food items as required I do not sterilize

 

[Harrysdad]

New year, new lancet!

 

[Charis1213]

well thank you everyone for your replies , will use the same one then until its blunt

 

[LooperCat]

well thank you everyone for your replies , will use the same one then until its blunt

Or rusty

 

[Deleted member 308541]

They are so expensive , I've just ordered more and its cost me £15 for lancets and testing strips .

Cheers

On my Multiclix lancing device which has six lancets in a drum, I dial in a new lancet every time I start a new tub of fifty strips.

They cost me around $20.00 for box of 17 x 6 lancet drums.

 

[jillsymes66]

I use them for months at a time without doing anything to clean them. I test something like 4 times a day. It's not recommended though.

Me too.

 

[HSSS]

I use them for weeks at a time too (fastclix drum type). That said I did once get cellulitis in my thumb about 3 months after diagnosis. This may have been because I stupidly did it in the middle of the pad not at the edge and it may not have been anything to do with reusing the lancet. It did bloody hurt though. I still reuse them.