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03-08-2007, 08:45 AM
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I am a: Parent | | Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 311
| | | Picture this: A 9 year old being chased around the school clinic with a lancet and the child trying to explain how to put it in the pen. So glad we can now look back and laugh!
Margaret |
03-08-2007, 08:57 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: missouri
Posts: 1,082
| | | I can remember when we had to use an object that had a tiny little razor blade in it and you had to literally take one hand,hold the little razor blade and puncture your finger with it. OUCH! It was like self mutilation!Only you didn't WANT to do it. |
03-08-2007, 06:54 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,047
| | | Only a few years ago using the OneTouch meter's lancet, more blood was required than is needed with subsequent versions. I always had to use the deepest setting and even then sometimes I had to do a second stick 'cause it was so hard to get enough blood. I wasted a lot of strips with not quite enough blood back then. I used to have to take a minute to get my nerve up to test. It did hurt.
Now, with the OneTouch UltraSoft lancet, I use the fourth from deepest setting. |
03-08-2007, 08:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 1,767
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Originally Posted by Gangrel  Ohhhhh, i think your are right! Here, I found a picture! Attachment 2066
Belyro wins a gold star, which can be exchanged for 2 silver, or a cup of tea! | Peppermint tea please!
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~ Bethany ~
Type 1 since I was 3 (1981) - 26 years now
Pumping as of Sept. 13, 2007 - Paradigm 522 with NovoRapid (Novolog)
(Previously on Levemir and Humalog)
CGMS as of Apr. 2008
Laser treatments (scatter) on both eyes - Jul. 4, 2007-Sept. 12, 2007 |
03-09-2007, 06:28 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,417
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Originally Posted by Gangrel Ohhhhh, i think your are right! Here, I found a picture! Attachment 2066
Belyro wins a gold star, which can be exchanged for 2 silver, or a cup of tea! | That thing looks brutal....
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Type 1
Dx'd Oct 2, 2006
Medtronic pumper - NovoRapid
Drusens in both eyes.
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03-09-2007, 09:09 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ohio
Posts: 49
| | | I have to set mine to the deepest setting and still hope to get enough blood. My fingertips are really calloused from playing guitar for 14 years.
I hate having to poke myself a second time because I didn't press hard enough into my skin while on the deepest setting.
I'd poke myself somewhere different but everything I read says the fingers are the most accurate for after meals, exercise, etc. |
03-12-2007, 12:14 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: louisiana
Posts: 110
| | | i forgot to check setting and it hurt like crazy and the blood shot up in the air like old faithful...lol...good thing noone was around when that happened..... |
03-12-2007, 12:20 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: louisiana
Posts: 110
| | | yes...that has happened to me also...$&@! |
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