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02-21-2007, 02:16 AM
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| | | can you post a link to your lantus pen? My lantus pen is an Autopen24 and it's poo.
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02-21-2007, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Stuboy  can you post a link to your lantus pen? My lantus pen is an Autopen24 and it's poo. | Yeah, same!!! Autopen24 sucks...
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02-21-2007, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Stuboy can you post a link to your lantus pen? My lantus pen is an Autopen24 and it's poo. | www.opticlik.com |
02-21-2007, 09:52 AM
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| | | FWIW, I actually use a BD pen to inject Lantus. It works with the BD needles that I use for everything else. It works fine. Wheter it exactly correlates to the markings on other pens on not I cannot be 100% sure, but what I do know is that if I dial up 20 on there it is right for me.
I went this way as I thought the original Lantus pen was so bad. My clinic gave me one of the Autopens last time I was there. Man alive does that thing stink. It is kept for emergency duties only, and I do hope I have to blow the dust off it before use...
Thanks for the link to the official Lantus pen; it's different from the one I tried 4 odd years ago, so I'll try and give that one a bash.
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02-21-2007, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Funnygrl What do you currently use for bolus insulin?
Nm- Novolog- yay diabuddies. Do you use the flexpen then? Or the novopen? But I didn't know if novolog came in pen fills for the novopen. Their website says they don't. Yay confusion. | Novopen 4
The novopen is a lot better to use then the opticlik. The opticlik really doesn't need to be primed though. The novopen 4 must be primed everytime. Sometimes it takes me 4 units to get it primed. Luckily the opticlik only needs to be used once a day compared to the Novopen being used 0-12 times a day. |
02-21-2007, 12:33 PM
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| | | That is a sleek looking pen! They gave me some pen samples for humalog a few years ago....they were HUGE and it took an act of congress to get the plunger down....and it took so long to deliver the insulin.....I didn't like it at all. But, they were the disposable pens...I've never tried the cartridge pens. I wish I could, but they are WAY too pricey! |
02-21-2007, 06:08 PM
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| | | There is a new disposable Lantus pen coming to the US this summer....I think it's going to be called Solostar. Keep your eyes out for it.....
I've heard that the Lilly Memoir Pen is $150!!!! YIKES.
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02-21-2007, 06:21 PM
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| | That is sweet looking! Here's another site I saw it on: Huma-pen Memoir
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02-21-2007, 07:23 PM
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| | | It says it remembers up to 16 doses "including priming doses". So basically it will remember every other dose assuming it primes on the first try. Lots of room for improvement still on the pens.
IMO the perfect pen would be just like the novopen 4, that doesn't need priming, and had a second dial for .1 increments. What do you think the perfect pen should have/be? |
02-21-2007, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by BriOnH It says it remembers up to 16 doses "including priming doses". So basically it will remember every other dose assuming it primes on the first try. Lots of room for improvement still on the pens.
IMO the perfect pen would be just like the novopen 4, that doesn't need priming, and had a second dial for .1 increments. What do you think the perfect pen should have/be? | I can't imagine a pen ever being able to do .1 increments, but who knows. Dream big. |
02-21-2007, 08:24 PM
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| | | I haven't used novolog in years, but aren't the cartidges the same size as humalog's? |
02-21-2007, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Funnygrl I can't imagine a pen ever being able to do .1 increments, but who knows. Dream big. | It would be quite easy. Quote:
Originally Posted by xMenace I haven't used novolog in years, but aren't the cartidges the same size as humalog's? | yup, both are 3ml but the novolog tips screw on to the cartridge and the humalog tips screw on to the pen itself. |
02-22-2007, 09:18 AM
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| | | I like novo nordisk, but i wish they would make some nice looking pens... and renew their idea of what looks "cool".
I'd be interested in the opticlik pen, but you need different cartridges... I dont think i'd get the prescription without a valid reason for the change. Im guessing their more expensive.
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