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View Poll Results: How often do you change your lancet? | |
Every time
|    | 8 | 9.88% | |
Every 1 - 3 pokes
|    | 5 | 6.17% | |
Every 4 - 10 pokes
|    | 9 | 11.11% | |
More than 10 pokes
|    | 29 | 35.80% | |
You're supposed to change the lancet?
|    | 30 | 37.04% |
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07-09-2008, 12:35 AM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Southern California
Posts: 57
| | | lancets...how often do you change them?
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.
__________________ 25 yo female
Dx type 1 in 1996 at 13 yo
Pumping since 1997
Now on MM515 - 722 on its way with CGMS to follow 
7/1/08.....7.3  |
07-09-2008, 12:46 AM
|  | Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: California
Posts: 140
| | | 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
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Pumping on Paradigm 522 since 5/20/08
"When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out."
---David Weatherford |
07-09-2008, 01:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: in the irish sea!
Posts: 371
| | | at first i changed for every 'poke'.
nowadays i only change it if its easier to get blood out with a spoon!
__________________ Sharon  |
07-09-2008, 03:49 AM
|  | Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada
Posts: 121
| | | 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.
__________________ Type 1 since June 12, 1997. (12yrs old)
Started Pumping Nov. 19, 2007 - MM722 |
07-09-2008, 03:55 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,523
| | | I changed my accu-chek 6 shooter in May. I think I bought it last Septemberish.
__________________ Michael Pollan on CBC
In Defense of Food with Michael Pollan T1 1975, MM 722 pump
A1C 7/08 5.9%
HDL - 1.55 (59.9)
LDL - 1.76 (68.1)
Triglicerides - 0.44 (40.0)
Called John, plus many other things
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John's Troll Meter - current level: Iffy, iffy |
07-09-2008, 04:09 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,019
| | | I bought a box of 100 last year. I figure that's probably a good 25 years of lancets. |
07-09-2008, 04:51 AM
|  | Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Canada, Prince Edward Island
Posts: 438
| | | I change when I run out of test strips nad have to open up another pack of 100.
__________________ Mark K~
Type 1
Dx June 21st 2007
HbA1c
June 22, 2007 - 12.8
September 27, 2007 - 6.6
January 3, 2008 - 6.0
April 16, 2008 - 6.1
July 21, 2008 - 5.5
NovaRapid With Meals
Levemir at Bedtime
Acetylsalicylic Acid (ASA) 81 mg Daily
"Diabetes is for the intelligent and disciplined." |
07-09-2008, 05:10 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont
Posts: 1,183
| | | 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.
__________________ Diagnosed Type 2 on Sept 11, 2007 - A1c 8.8, Dec 2007 A1c 6.0, Apr 2008 A1c 5.7
No meds, daily 81mg aspirin and multivitamin, nutrition & exercise. Lacto-ovo vegetarian since Sept 1986You can call me   |
07-09-2008, 05:27 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 1,959
| | | 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.
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It's a pity that common sense isn't a very common thing.
" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
Diagnosed Type II on 26th November 2007
Metformin 500mg twice daily
Enap 5mg
Initial A1c (14th Dec07): 11.6%
15th Jan'08: 9%
3rd March'08 6.8%
6th June'08 6.1% |
07-09-2008, 05:40 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 509
| | 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.  |
07-09-2008, 06:10 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,540
| | | I change my lancet every couple of weeks.
Karen |
07-09-2008, 08:50 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,499
| | | 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.
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~Holly~
Incorrectly dx'ed type 2 7/00 
Correctly dx'ed type 1 5/01
MDI
Lantus 2x daily & Humalog
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07-09-2008, 08:52 AM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 6,218
| | | I change it whenever it bruises my finger or hurts.
__________________ 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)  |
07-09-2008, 10:06 AM
|  | Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: near Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 328
| | | 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)
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Hmmmm, Now that I am 52 I guess I am finally playing with a full deck . . .  HgA1C
6.2 on 6-5-08
6.2 on 1-14-08
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07-09-2008, 05:15 PM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 64
| | | 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. |
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