My Finger Hurts

[gobbly2100]

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

[Funnygrl]

Omg, ow. Or worse, the lancet wasn't in all the way? I HATE that!

[Ricros]

I did that yesterday. It was set to a 4 and I thought I hit bone. But I got enough blood out for testing.

[Injecto]

Happens all the time, and it hurst. Poor bruised fingers...

[T1Pumper]

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...

[sofaraway]

[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 :eek:

[princesslinda]

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.

[Cyborg]

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! :eek:

[cheryl]

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

[dacruzer]

what's the diff between the two. I think I have a lancet which you can calibrate and my setting in on 3.:confused:

[princesslinda]

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 *&!#@! ;)

[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. ;)

[belyro]

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.

[mzizgayle]

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

[Gangrel]

I believe you are referring to the Autolet.




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[right2fight]

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

[andypoo]

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.

[slipperyelm]

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.

[belyro]

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[Injecto]

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That thing looks brutal....

[Vince]

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.

[sweetblood]

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.....

[sweetblood]

yes...that has happened to me also...$&@!