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Try asking your nurse or possibly even your local council for one (I believe some LAs will supply and collect full ones?), or if you have no joy you can get small needle/medical waste bins on ebay for a couple of ££s or so.

And I'm another recent diabetic who swears by their meter. I treat all carbohydrates with a degree of suspicion as it's not just actual sugar that is not so good for us, so read and take heed of food labels accordingly.

Robbity
 
i phoned my doctors reception today and asked for a sharps box for my lancets and she said ok il have a pescription ready for you on wednesday................well that was easy .....
 
Hi, I might be thinking a bit silly at the moment, yet are you saying you can get a sharps box on prescription but not not the necessary bg meter with test strips, that the nurse says you do not require.
:):)
 
When I comes to getting sharps bins here we have to ring the council and when we ring about one we get treated like drug users and being judged for it.


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12345vonnie said:
can anyone please tell me do you put the lancetes in the bin or should i get a special box
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Before now I was prescribed a yellow sharps box and I returned the full one to the surgery for disposal. I use the blue plastic lancets with a cap and I turn the cap and clip it back on after use so it would probably be safe in the general waste but I have never done that.

Recently there was a question on the forum regarding re-use of lancets. I have never tried that either since I was told to use them once and if twice there might be a risk of infection. Wow, scary.

I thought about it and since they are an additional cost I wish to re-use them. They can't be blunt after just one time use can they? As for infection I thought about putting them in my steamer for 20 minutes. The hospital would call this autoclaving I suppose.

If I disappear from the forum without trace, it didn't work.
 
izzzi said:
Hi, I might be thinking a bit silly at the moment, yet are you saying you can get a sharps box on prescription but not not the necessary bg meter with test strips, that the nurse says you do not require.
:):)
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hi i asked the nurse should i get a metre she said no ,if i need one she would give me one...she said i dont need to check my blood
 
l reuse my lancets till l OUH really loud about a month/lancet. I shove the cap from the old one onto the new and bin it. Or just bend the tip on the ground wrap it in paper put it in the bin. Not any sharper than tins or broken glass etc that get slung. For insulin inj. thats a different kettle of fish.
 
Surely and I could be wrong here but isn't that not a very good ideas as you could get false readings due to having dirty lancets?


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Maybe a t1 needs to be more careful l think l read that someone had weird readings t1 and they swap each time but my monitor bloods and hba1c seem fine. So just continue to the ouch point.
Think a poll would show majority change on the ouch!
 
izzzi said:
Hi, I might be thinking a bit silly at the moment, yet are you saying you can get a sharps box on prescription but not not the necessary bg meter with test strips, that the nurse says you do not require.
:):)
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This might be even sillier. My nurse stopped the supply of my test strips but she offered me Viagra at the same time.

No mention was made of lancets.
 
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