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How many Lancets?

peacetrain

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I was newly diagnosed T2 in November and bought several books at that time. One of the books "What on Earth Can I Eat?" by Alan Shanley proved to be a good read and that advocated the test, test, and test again practice. I believe he also has a blog, but I haven't looked at that yet.

There was something he mentioned which intrigued me and I wanted to ask about it, especially as there is a lot mentioned in the forums about testing strips, but not lancets. Alan Shanley wrote that he doesn't use a new lancet for every test, in fact he uses the same one until it gets so blunt it hurts!!

So... I was wondering ... How many lancets do you use?
 
I don't use a new lancet each test. I probably change them every few days because it does start to hurt a bit more. I use that as my key to change.

Cath
 
When they simply start to hurt a bit-then I change it.
I stopped ordering them on prescription fairly early on as I was getting 100 of them a month on prescription-way more than I'd need.
 
I try and change the lancet each time but it definitely gets changed each morning, never use to mind and I'd use the same one for weeks.
 
I change mine every few days. I gather the infection risk is very low and like the others, I can't be bothered to use a new one every time
 
I change mine every test simply because I saw a poster in the waiting room at the hospital on what happens to the needle after it's used once. Makes me flinch thinking about it lol
 
I change mine daily. Given they cost around £10 for 200 then the cost of lancets is pretty small compared to the cost of test strips so I see no real need to economise further.
 
I change mine after every test as that has always been the advice I have been given by the hospital.

The only exception is if I'm testing twice in quick succession such as after a hypo, I usually just keep the same one on.
 
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