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Stand off at the Chemist!

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Needles and lancets aren't anything like the problem as strips and insulin - sharp things can be reused, other things can't!
 
Copepod said:
Needles and lancets aren't anything like the problem as strips and insulin - sharp things can be reused, other things can't!
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Not so bad if you know in advance. Once they're in the yellow box, I don't fish them out again ! :D

I used to reuse many times but was dissuaded a few years ago, and have never gone back except in emergencies.

Rob
 
Of course, but just like the principle of "your last Rolo", you'd never put your last lancet / needle in the sharps box, would you?
 
Copepod said:
Of course, but just like the principle of "your last Rolo", you'd never put your last lancet / needle in the sharps box, would you?
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Ah but, what they don't know is that I have secret stashes in my bad and around the house. I reckon I could survive a week if I was forced to.

Doing 5 a day, I try to be a bit more careful with the injections because the rotation is a bit more frequent and the skin can get a bit sore at times. If I was reusing, I suspect I'd end up running out of sites pretty quickly.

I need to see the doctor and get them to rationalise the script items so I'm not having to go back every week or two for something. If they can't trust me with it all, then I'll hand it back and they can do my injections for me. They'd soon get fed up with the calculations, let alone treating the resultant hypos and hypers.

Rob
 
Robster65 said:
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I need to see the doctor and get them to rationalise the script items so I'm not having to go back every week or two for something. If they can't trust me with it all, then I'll hand it back and they can do my injections for me. They'd soon get fed up with the calculations, let alone treating the resultant hypos and hypers.

Rob
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I managed to persuade my GP to give me 50 days worth of needles and strips as my other medications were all 56 days - almost works! 🙂
 
Northerner said:
I managed to persuade my GP to give me 50 days worth of needles and strips as my other medications were all 56 days - almost works! 🙂
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I know one of the GPs will dish out anything you ask for. It was him who upped my strips from one box to four. But if they object, I want to hear their reasons. They may be under some misaprehensions about what we do and why. I'm happy to educate them as long as they don't get protective about their budgets. I'll cost them more by generating a script every week than by rationalising it all. And I've no intention on cutting down.🙂

Rob
 
Robster65 said:
Ah but, what they don't know is that I have secret stashes in my bad and around the house. I reckon I could survive a week if I was forced to.

Doing 5 a day, I try to be a bit more careful with the injections because the rotation is a bit more frequent and the skin can get a bit sore at times. If I was reusing, I suspect I'd end up running out of sites pretty quickly.
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Just a little question. Is that the reason for not reusing then? That the sites are in danger of not being usable?

I only ask because I test infrequently and don't remember when I last changed the lancet (and it doesn't hurt yet).

Andy 🙂
 
Andy HB said:
Just a little question. Is that the reason for not reusing then? That the sites are in danger of not being usable?

I only ask because I test infrequently and don't remember when I last changed the lancet (and it doesn't hurt yet).

Andy 🙂
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Lancets I rarely change. It's the needles I meant Andy. :D

Although my fingers do get bruised, they tend to take the strain a bit easier. And I can always find alternative sites.

The insulin is a bit more fussy where it goes, damn it ! 🙄

Rob
 
Robster65 said:
Lancets I rarely change. It's the needles I meant Andy. :D

Although my fingers do get bruised, they tend to take the strain a bit easier. And I can always find alternative sites.

The insulin is a bit more fussy where it goes, damn it ! 🙄

Rob
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Ooops! Yep, I stand corrected! :D
 
Andy HB said:
Ooops! Yep, I stand corrected! :D
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I've actually got a box of the accu chek lancet drums, each containg 6 lancets.

I reckoned it would last me about 2 years at least. If they gave me about 20 boxes of needles in advance, I needn't bother them for a year or so.

That and maybe 52 boxes of strips, a few boxes of each insulin and 13 boxes of the tablets.

Rob
 
Robster65 said:
I've actually got a box of the accu chek lancet drums, each containg 6 lancets.

I reckoned it would last me about 2 years at least. If they gave me about 20 boxes of needles in advance, I needn't bother them for a year or so.

That and maybe 52 boxes of strips, a few boxes of each insulin and 13 boxes of the tablets.

Rob
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Go on, I dare you! 🙂
 
I find those drum lancets with the Accu-Chek stabber go blunt a LOT quicker than the normal lancets. Like if I get a whole days stabs out of one (one lancet, not one drum, LOL) I marvel at how long it's lasted.
 
trophywench said:
I find those drum lancets with the Accu-Chek stabber go blunt a LOT quicker than the normal lancets. Like if I get a whole days stabs out of one (one lancet, not one drum, LOL) I marvel at how long it's lasted.
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They last me for weeks! 😱 🙂
 
trophywench said:
I find those drum lancets with the Accu-Chek stabber go blunt a LOT quicker than the normal lancets. Like if I get a whole days stabs out of one (one lancet, not one drum, LOL) I marvel at how long it's lasted.
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Noticed that too, I don't turn the drum after every use but do start the day with a fresh lancet.
 
I had a review at Sainsbury's but found them very helpful, they asked if I was happy to take part and made an appointment for me at a time convenient to me. Maybe I was one of the lucky ones
 
susie28 said:
I had a review at Sainsbury's but found them very helpful, they asked if I was happy to take part and made an appointment for me at a time convenient to me. Maybe I was one of the lucky ones
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Oh I have had a review before done by the regular pharmacist. He was and is exellent 🙂 It was just this particular twits attitude and the non comprehension of the word NO thank you.


Another update popped into same place today to pick up my neighbours prescription for her. The lovely lady pharmacist was there and she had heard about the locum and what he put me through. She handed me an envelope with a so sorry note enclosed and a gift voucher. The other staff members also said how embarrassed they were with what had happened. From what I can gather the locum has been reported to head office and it will be taken further.

I hope he gets a ticking off and it's left at that.
 
Just don't spend the voucher on diabetic chocolate, Sue, although sensible pharmacist might mean they don't even sell it at that chemists? Perhaps some nice toiletries or essentials like toothpaste?
 
Copepod said:
Just don't spend the voucher on diabetic chocolate, Sue, although sensible pharmacist might mean they don't even sell it at that chemists? Perhaps some nice toiletries or essentials like toothpaste?
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I shall give the voucher to my Mum so she can buy her favourite things when I next take her shopping 🙂 She needs pampering as Dad is so poorly now.
 
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