we were really pleased that after 6 months of drawing up out of vials Meg has moved onto her novo pen. the DSN came to our house and showed us out to use this and practice on saline and pretend skin and all seemed to be going well. The DSN advocated the sharp safe needles as this was in line with the latest European directive and would be safer when Meg has to inject in school.
We have had nothing but problems since using this devise some of our own making but some I genuinly think is an issue with the devise heres the list
- difficult to get the right pressure with sharp safe needle causing pain and bleeding
-when we take the pen from her skin there is residual insulin leaving you think she hasnt got enough
- on one time I clicked to 3 and when I checked afterwards the devise said she only had 1 so had to inject again but then panicking that shed then had double-I mean could the pen be wrong? there was 2 of us checking the dose on that occassion.
anyway lots of stress over the last 3 days Meg who diddnt mind injections hates insulin time at the moment as is really upset and to add to it her BM's are all over the show compared to being perfect prior to using the pen.
anyone had similar experiences and have any pearls of wisdom, I am going to try a normal needle this morning but only have 6 of these- I don't really want to revert back to the previous system as this will send the wrong message to Meg.
thanks for any comments/advise
Jayne
We have had nothing but problems since using this devise some of our own making but some I genuinly think is an issue with the devise heres the list
- difficult to get the right pressure with sharp safe needle causing pain and bleeding
-when we take the pen from her skin there is residual insulin leaving you think she hasnt got enough
- on one time I clicked to 3 and when I checked afterwards the devise said she only had 1 so had to inject again but then panicking that shed then had double-I mean could the pen be wrong? there was 2 of us checking the dose on that occassion.
anyway lots of stress over the last 3 days Meg who diddnt mind injections hates insulin time at the moment as is really upset and to add to it her BM's are all over the show compared to being perfect prior to using the pen.
anyone had similar experiences and have any pearls of wisdom, I am going to try a normal needle this morning but only have 6 of these- I don't really want to revert back to the previous system as this will send the wrong message to Meg.
thanks for any comments/advise
Jayne