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Insulcheck

LancsCarol

LancsCarol

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Please can Diabetes UK help with this?
I'd like to have two Insulcheck monitors for my insulin pens. I have a shocking memory - all my life, but it can only get worse as I get older.
These gadgets will save me panicking in the middle of the night wondering if I have remembered to take my long-acting dose, and wondering if I did do a short-acting dose earlier.
Other people tell me they sometimes wake up wondering too.
Surely these gadgets, now they are available, should be NHS stock items?
How many overdoses might they save ? - and so many people could rest easier.
They say stress is bad for diabetics, don't they?

Could Diabetes UK please become a pressure group to have the Insulcheck monitors listed as standard NHS issue - at least for long-acting (overnight) insulin pens?
They are on average going to cost less than one pack of testing strips.
There are so many expensive routines for diabetics annually - eyes, feet, general check-ups, courses- that the cost of NHS staff time spent is enormous.
Test strips and needles cost every month.
These gadgets last a year, I'm told.
Surely the cost of these would be tiny by comparison.
 
Hi,
Diabetes does seem to cause memory issues. I'm 47 and often can't remember whether I've taken my insulin or not - this is partly down to it having become an automatic thing to do. However I use the NovoPen and recently I was given the NovoPen Echo by my diabetes clinic nurse. They have a supply of them, along with some of the clip on Insulcheck items you mentioned.
I presume that most manufacturers offer a similar type of insulin pen to the NovoPen Echo for use with their insulins.
I can say that it was one of the most beneficial items I've ever used and it has saved me forgetting (or at least reminded me that I have had) my insulin plenty of times already.
Link to the NovPen Echo:
http://www.novonordisk.com/diabetes_care/insulin_pens_and_needles/novopen_echo/
 
Thanks mrburden for your help - I'll ask about the NovoPen Echo at my next appointment.
I have bought two Insulcheck monitors;
one was faulty and immediately replaced for free by the supplier;
now another has gone wrong in the same way, so I'll be getting back in touch with the supplier to ask what now?
It seems that Diabetes.co.uk didn't want to develop a lobby for free issue of Insulcheck monitors - or maybe I need to contact them in a different way...perhaps after the design fault has been corrected and the monitors are more robust.
They are a real help, despite the minor faults - I'm pleased I bought them.
 
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