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<blockquote data-quote="AJKOK11" data-source="post: 1073864" data-attributes="member: 234906"><p>Hi, i just wanted to share what for me has been a really big step forward.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Al.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/products/fingerprickers/fastclix.html" target="_blank">https://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/products/fingerprickers/fastclix.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AJKOK11, post: 1073864, member: 234906"] 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. [URL]https://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/products/fingerprickers/fastclix.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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