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03-07-2007, 04:34 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: UK
Posts: 195
| | | My Finger Hurts
Ouch!
Anybody ever pricked their finger with the deepest setting on your pen by mistake?
I just did it and am in pain, my poor index finger 
If it had gone through anymore it would have proberly put a hole I could look through in my finger lol
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Since The Age Of 10 (1998)
31st October
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03-07-2007, 05:00 PM
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Posts: 5,595
| | | Omg, ow. Or worse, the lancet wasn't in all the way? I HATE that! |
03-07-2007, 05:40 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 108
| | | I did that yesterday. It was set to a 4 and I thought I hit bone. But I got enough blood out for testing.
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A1C 6.7 |
03-07-2007, 08:36 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,406
| | | Happens all the time, and it hurst. Poor bruised fingers...
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Dx'd Oct 2, 2006
Medtronic pumper - NovoRapid
Drusens in both eyes.
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03-07-2007, 08:42 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Middle TN
Posts: 28
| | | How about forgetting your own lancing device and having to use the hospital's disposable pricker! OWWWIEEEE. I was in the hospital for 3 days last week and the first 24 hours I had to poked every hour. I only use 2 fingers for my pokes. I am very particular on which finger and where on the finger I do it too. So I have big marks from them...
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Wife of 11years
Mom to 4 children
dx T2 1996
dx T1 April 2006 after Stroke
Pump: Animas IR 1000
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03-07-2007, 11:45 PM
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Posts: 413
| | [quote=T1Pumper;201452]How about forgetting your own lancing device and having to use the hospital's disposable pricker! OWWWIEEEEQUOTE]
those things are just evil 
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type: MODY 3
diagnosed: feb 2000
using: lantus and novorapid
last Hba1c: 5.7% July 2007
previous HbA1c:5.6% April 2007
previous HbA1c: 6.2% Febuary 2007
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03-08-2007, 04:31 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 6,776
| | | Always check that setting..often times, I'll pull it out of my zipper case and it will move the settings...OUCH! I type all day long, and you can really feel those deep sticks.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
03-08-2007, 05:18 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,835
| | Be glad you had a lancer. Once I only had a lancet, for some reason I don't recall. I had to stick myself manually... Ouch!
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03-08-2007, 05:50 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tenessee
Posts: 1,430
| | | I get a few ouch one's know and again, but my fingers have been so abused I don't feel much of nothing, I am having to go lower and lower on the fingers cause they don't like to bleed so the ouches are starting to come back............
Cheryl
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March a1c 6.4
Pumper 522 with Humalog
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03-08-2007, 05:57 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 84
| |  Lancer vs lancet
what's the diff between the two. I think I have a lancet which you can calibrate and my setting in on 3.  |
03-08-2007, 05:59 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 6,776
| | The lancet is the needle thingy that fits into the lancer. The lancer is what can be set to different depth lengths. I'm glad to know it's called a "lancer" myself, as i've made up my own name for it...I usually call it *&!#@! 
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis) |
03-08-2007, 06:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ottawa, ON
Posts: 1,217
| | ohhh, I remember 24 years ago doing the lancets by hand before we got a Lancet device. I can't remember what it was called, but it was sort of flat and round, and there was only one setting: pain!!!! lol.
There was also a plastic piece that sepearted your finger from the lance, that you were supposed to change everrrryyyy time you use it i think.
Ahhh, the good old days!!!!
A few weeks ago I had misplaced my lancer, and had to use the lancets by hand for afew days. It wasn't as bad as I thought, but I still prefere the lancer.
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03-08-2007, 06:34 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 1,759
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Originally Posted by Gangrel  ohhh, I remember 24 years ago doing the lancets by hand before we got a Lancet device. I can't remember what it was called, but it was sort of flat and round, and there was only one setting: pain!!!! lol.
There was also a plastic piece that sepearted your finger from the lance, that you were supposed to change everrrryyyy time you use it i think.
Ahhh, the good old days!!!!
A few weeks ago I had misplaced my lancer, and had to use the lancets by hand for afew days. It wasn't as bad as I thought, but I still prefere the lancer. | I believe you are referring to the Autolet.
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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 |
03-08-2007, 06:48 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 348
| | | I did it once when I first decided to use the fingers, and forgot to check the setting. I had been testing on the forearm but I bruised all the time |
03-08-2007, 07:02 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ottawa, ON
Posts: 1,217
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Originally Posted by belyro I believe you are referring to the Autolet. |
Ohhhhh, i think your are right! Here, I found a picture! al_b4.jpg
Belyro wins a gold star, which can be exchanged for 2 silver, or a cup of tea!
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