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<blockquote data-quote="Spiker" data-source="post: 532300" data-attributes="member: 102150"><p>I want to talk about the benefits of needle reuse, which need to be balanced against the purported harms and risks. There is the cash benefit for those who are self funding. There is the benefit of saving the NHS and your GP money for those who are not self funded.</p><p></p><p>But there are also non cash benefits. For me, not changing the needle each shot turned a conspicuous 30 second operation requiring carried supplies into a discreet 5 second operation with no "logistics". This made a huge difference to me in terms of injecting at work, in public, at restaurants, etc. I don't consider myself shy about injecting in public, and I am in some ways fairly militant about it, but nonetheless calling attention to myself feels quite inhibiting in a lot of those situations. I am sure that the quick injection, without finding, opening, adding and then disposing of a needle, has helped me to take literally thousands of timely injections that I otherwise would have skipped or delayed. The positive health benefits of that hugely outweigh the purported harms and risks. </p><p></p><p>Sent from the <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig" target="_blank">Diabetes Forum App</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spiker, post: 532300, member: 102150"] I want to talk about the benefits of needle reuse, which need to be balanced against the purported harms and risks. There is the cash benefit for those who are self funding. There is the benefit of saving the NHS and your GP money for those who are not self funded. But there are also non cash benefits. For me, not changing the needle each shot turned a conspicuous 30 second operation requiring carried supplies into a discreet 5 second operation with no "logistics". This made a huge difference to me in terms of injecting at work, in public, at restaurants, etc. I don't consider myself shy about injecting in public, and I am in some ways fairly militant about it, but nonetheless calling attention to myself feels quite inhibiting in a lot of those situations. I am sure that the quick injection, without finding, opening, adding and then disposing of a needle, has helped me to take literally thousands of timely injections that I otherwise would have skipped or delayed. The positive health benefits of that hugely outweigh the purported harms and risks. Sent from the [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig]Diabetes Forum App[/url] [/QUOTE]
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