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Honestly now , how often do you change your lancet

Diabeticger

Diabeticger

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No advice / recommendations or judgement just post how often you do it

Once every 2 weeks for me
 
Can’t remember the last time - probably Christmas lol
 
When I remember, which isn't very often - even though I do have the fast-clix drums that make it dead easy to change
 
3 times a year maximum. If it doesn't hurt I don't change it.
 
Every time for lancets, but not my needle tips for injections.
 
In More Usual Times - When I remember, if it's hurting, or I get a bruise.

Currently, trying to remember every day I've been out of the house!
 
When it starts to hurt - still have almost the entire box of lancets I first bought almost 4 years ago!
 
Still working from my original box of 50 prescribed 6 years ago. Still rattles so must have plenty left in it. Test about 3 or 4 times a day, Still sinking oil wells from the same 3 finger tips. No need to seek new territory it seems. Only once had a gusher by hitting the mother-lode.
 
I made a conscious decision to change my lancets regularly, so about every 10 or 15 uses? (I ended up with boxes of the things...) Miss the click lancet thingies on my old accuchek referred to above.
 
Usually when I start a new tub of strips, if I remember. So about every three weeks or so. Bought a box of 200 lancets over four years ago, still got a lot left.
 
Every so often, that’s remembering to move the drum to the next one, which happens when the lancet seems a bit blunt. In fairness, I don’t blood test often, the greatest number of tests happen when I’m calibrating the tech after a sensor change. After that it may be once a week to check that calibration’s still good, and whenever I need to know if a rise or fall will level off.
 
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