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03-18-2007, 07:12 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,845
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Originally Posted by xMenace  I'm curious which of your fingers are not cybernetic. | lol... I'm also guilty of getting lazy and not using them much anymore. Testing about 10 times a day, the pads do get expensive. For some reason I have a hard time getting insurance to cover things like IV Prep, alcohol wipes, and glucose tabs.
I do make sure I have clean fingers before testing. I try to stick with the sides of my thumbs for testing. I've built up callouses and testing is painless most of the time.
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03-19-2007, 07:32 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,797
| | | I don't use them either. Just plain old soap & water for me!
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03-19-2007, 07:47 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: SE Michigan
Posts: 195
| | | I have never used alcohol before testing and I have tested since home monitors first became available. Nor did I use it when using MDI. I was told years ago that alcohol will make the skin tough. And I very seldom wash my hands when testing. Have never had an infection.
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Liz from Michigan
dxed 6/64 - pumping with Animas 1250 since 11/09/06 and using Dexcom7 since 2/15/08
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03-19-2007, 08:22 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 7,163
| | | I don't use alcohol wipes before sticking as I read it helps cause callousing of the fingers, making sticks more difficult. I often will run my hands under warm water, as it helps me bleed more easily.
__________________ 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)  |
03-19-2007, 08:33 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NJ
Posts: 387
| | | I still use them... partly because I'm so immune compromised with multiple chronic illnesses, partly because I work with people whose hygeine is questionable, and mostly because I inherited a case of them from a diabetic Mother-in-law, rest her soul... lancets and swabs for life!
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-Mike  "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." -Richard Feynman ACTOS 30mg
PRANDIN 2mg x 3
BYETTA 10 mcg x 2
SYNTHROID 300 mcg
COZAAR 100 mg
TRICOR 145 mg
QUINAPRIL 10 mg
METFORMIN 500 mg |
03-19-2007, 10:48 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 288
| | | Personally I really don't think it's necessary to wash before I test unless my hands are sticky or truely filthy. Chances of getting an infection from such a small cut seem pretty slim, unless of course you are a butcher, mechanic, farmer. Just one person's opinion. Then again, I've been known to lick a stray cat or two...
__________________ PCOS with insulin resistance: Jan 2002  Type 2 diabetes: Jan 4, 2007 Meter: One Touch Ultra 2 Medications: actos, gluconorm, lithium carbonate, effexor xr, coversyl, indapamide, spironolactone, clonazepam, fiorinol c HbA1c: 02/05/07: 5.0% • 28/12/06: 13.1%
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03-19-2007, 11:54 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NJ
Posts: 387
| | As I sit here typing this, there are blueprints a foot away from me with a grey layer of spores covering them. This is typical in my shop, we handle a lot of old documents from who knows where, with any number of foreign substances on them. I buy 'germ-x' hand sanitizer by the quart. I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Nneighbor, please tell me that's a typo or a euphemism for something else... you 'lick' stray cats? I hope you mean, 'beat them in a fight' ! 
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-Mike "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." -Richard Feynman ACTOS 30mg
PRANDIN 2mg x 3
BYETTA 10 mcg x 2
SYNTHROID 300 mcg
COZAAR 100 mg
TRICOR 145 mg
QUINAPRIL 10 mg
METFORMIN 500 mg |
03-19-2007, 12:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 141
| | | i use purell
I carry a mini purell bottle with me. I use that to clean my hands when I need to. I know it's alcohol based, but purell is not supposed to dry your hands so much. My dermatologist recommended it instead of using soap and water when i had severe hand eczema. it also dries fast.
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Type 1, diagnosed 7/13/06
Using OmniPod w/Novolog (since 12/06)
A1C at diagnosis = 8.2
most recent A1C = 5.3
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