[Kendall]

The box says "single use only" but I doubt most of us follow that advice. My husband sometimes gives me a hard time and asks me if I can even remember when I changed it last. (Then he changes it for me. What a great guy!) I usually wait until the needle feels dull or my fingers start complaining before I change it.

[Kat]

In the begining I changed them everytime (hah!)
but now I change them when I remember, which is once every couple months!? or several several weeks??
Anyway....eh they poke me...I have enough to last the rest of my life right now lol

[shabbie]

at first i changed for every 'poke'.

nowadays i only change it if its easier to get blood out with a spoon!

[rocky]

Like the others, I used to. I changed it every poke for my first 9 years being diabetic... the past couple years I've come to learn that is entirely unnecessary. Usually every morning if I remember, sometimes I can't remember the last time I changed it.

[xMenace]

I changed my accu-chek 6 shooter in May. I think I bought it last Septemberish.

[Scratch]

I bought a box of 100 last year. I figure that's probably a good 25 years of lancets.

[Olidus]

I change when I run out of test strips nad have to open up another pack of 100.

[Evermont]

I change lancets twice, whenever I test somebody else and again when I go back to testing myself. I suppose I could just change back to the one I was using for myself before and just keep it rolling.

Having only 2 or 3 spares in my kit sure makes it less bulky.

[davef]

I'm like the others, when I started I changed everytime I tested. Now I change every few days, once a week or when the lancet is blunt.

I get my Lancets under our national health programme so I get one for each strip (200/mont), I now have a stock pile of 400 lancets at home. Got my script filled yesterday and said to pharmacist that I didn't need lancets, so he gave me 100 strips for my 2nd meter (I have a contour and an onetouch) instead.

[shiftzor]

I change it every time, mainly due to the risk of infection and not wanting to use a dull lancet as my fingers have big enough holes in them as it is.

[kgm0612]

I change my lancet every couple of weeks.

Karen

[grace girl]

I changed it every time in the beginning...now I change it when the pokes start to hurt...and at the moment I couldn't honestly tell you when the last time I changed it was!
I keep an ultra-mini in my purse, I got it early last year and I've never changed it.

[princesslinda]

I change it whenever it bruises my finger or hurts.

[Petruchio]

When I was Dxed I had no insurance, so I changed lancets on "Change Day" to save money.

Change Day
Change Clocks (on/off) Daylight Savings time
Change Batteries in smoke Detectors
Change Lancets


Now that Insurance pays for Lancets & strips, I change every 2 weeks (if I remember)

[judi t]

I change every couple of weeks, or when I think about it. Hey, think I'll change it today! But don't think anything can rescue my pocked fingertips.