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What pen for Lantus cartridges?

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So, I got annoyed with Lantus Solostar pens recently, so asked my GP to prescribe me Lantus cartridges and a pen instead. He did this with no problem, but gave me a Novopen 3.

Went to use the cartridges for the first time last night, and found they don't fit the Novopen 3...luckily, I try to keep some syringes in the house for when things go pear-shaped!

Can someone please tell me what pen I should be asking for? Looking around, I thought an Autopen 24 was the one to go for, but the '24' in its name worries me - I take 26 units at night - does the 24 indicate the number of units the pen will dispense in one go?

Many thanks for any advice,

j
 
Hi

The Autopen 24 comes in single dose units and 2 dose units. 1-20 is the single dose and the double dose is 20 to 40 I think but not sure.

Lilly make the Humapen which will accept the Aventis cartridges (Lantus and Apidra) and will deliver units from 1-60. It's fairly good so have a look at it. If you read some of my messages on the forum you will see how to go about using the pen with Aventis cartridges in it :mrgreen:
 
Many thanks for the helpful response.

Interesting to hear that the Humapen will do the job - I used to have one of those back when I took Humalog (but Humalog messed me up a bit, so had to stop taking it). I've got good memories of that pen - it always gave me a bit of confidence about accuracy and reliability, which I never got with Solostar.

Might still have my old pen at home somewhere - will have to search tonight, but will email my doctor now to get a new one ordered anyway.

j
 
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