[AndreLaplume]

Our Daughter is migrating to an insulin pen. In some respects it makes things easier. It appears inconsistent thought. We are finding that it does not seem to bring her down as much as the straight shot did. Ex: setting the pen at '2' vs injecting '2'. Is there a trick to using these or was our injections just always off?

[rzrbks]

The most important difference is that you need to leave a pen in for at least 10 seconds.

I use the method of counting one thousand and one, one thousand and two............all the way to one thousand and ten.

It actually works out to be closer to 15 seconds but I Rarely have "Leaking" when I leave the needle in for this amount of time.

The mechanical action of a pen takes longer than the Instantaneous action of a syringe.

I use a pen for both my Novolog(fast acting) and Lantus(long acting) and use the same method for both different types of pen and have no problems.

Perhaps other here might have better ideas.

[AndreLaplume]

The lesser of two evils may be to stick with the syringe uuntil we get a pump.

Thanks!

[kgm0612]

One other important thing, if you're not doing it already, is that you need to "prime" the pen each time you use it. I always dialed up 2 or 3 units and push it through before dialing up my usual 10 units of Novolog.

[spike]

Originally Posted by AndreLaplume

Our Daughter is migrating to an insulin pen. In some respects it makes things easier. It appears inconsistent thought. We are finding that it does not seem to bring her down as much as the straight shot did. Ex: setting the pen at '2' vs injecting '2'. Is there a trick to using these or was our injections just always off?

My wife has used a pen and we noticed leakage that would make us leery about feeling comfortable with the dosing accuracy.