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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marferret" data-source="post: 2745543" data-attributes="member: 90786">Sharing this for info as a warning and interested to know if anyone else has had the same issue :  this morning with no warning my Novopen Plus insulin pen broke. That meant I couldn't give myself any fast acting insulin, as the Novorapid comes in cartridges and I'd no means of injecting it.I went to my pharmacy (Boots) and they were excellent - they had a pen in stock and gave it to me on an emergency prescription, for which I'm really grateful. I've put in a repeat prescription request to my local surgery to tidy up the paperwork. It was a bit scary, and in case this should happen again in future, I've also ordered a pen ( from Amazon, about £48) that I'm going to keep as a spare.I'd had the pen for about a year and use it 3 times a day. No prior warning that there was anything the matter with it. It was pretty obvious the internal spring used to fire the plunger wasn't working. I tried extracting it and re-priming it but it wouldn't fire. Has anyone else had this problem ?</blockquote>

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