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Damien

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Hi Hope this is the right forum to ask.

I have a tee2 pen and it’s on 7 to get a piercing? Is this right? Any lower and it won’t pierce and I struggle to get blood.
 
Sorry I don’t know the tee2pen @Damien maybe somebody else does ?

I have recommended to others as I was myself recommended by others on the forum the widely used
Acu-check FastClix (as aposed to the standard finger badgers that have come from the BGM manufacturers)
 
Damien said:
Hi Hope this is the right forum to ask.

I have a tee2 pen and it’s on 7 to get a piercing? Is this right? Any lower and it won’t pierce and I struggle to get blood.
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Mine is at 7 too.
I think that there is a slight mismatch between the lancets and the device, but it is not as bad as years back when the lancets needed a disc of paper put underneath them to draw blood at all.
I used the punched out discs from the hole puncher stollen from the civil service in the 1970s which still sits by my desk along with the treasury tags.
 
goodybags said:
Sorry I don’t know the tee2pen @Damien maybe somebody else does ?

I have recommended to others as I was myself recommended by others on the forum the widely used
Acu-check FastClix (as aposed to the standard finger badgers that have come from the BGM manufacturers)
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Mine goes up to “5” the highest value. (Don’t mind a blood bath.) but 7 could be “Nigel Tufnel’s 11?”
 
I use the pen with monitor I've got. I've used same lancet since I first tested in September. I started on 3 went to 2 and then settled on 1. I have recently moved it back to 2 but lancet is well used. I might change it soon. I'm post menopause and except for gardening my hands are treated gently.
Make sure hands are clean and warm. I hug a mug. Use side of finger not the pads. You need very little blood.
Use different fingers.
 
Damien said:
The finger print bit but my girlfriend said I need to be carful with scars etc.
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That is probably where the skin is toughest, try just to the side of the pad, if you put your thumb onto the middle finger and prick just to the side of that and apply gentle pressure. Make sure you actually press the device against your finger firmly. If all else fails take your lancet in your hand and just prick with it, a sharp stab, it is so fine it really doesn't hurt.
 
saffron15 said:
I use the pen with monitor I've got. I've used same lancet since I first tested in September. I started on 3 went to 2 and then settled on 1. I have recently moved it back to 2 but lancet is well used. I might change it soon. I'm post menopause and except for gardening my hands are treated gently.
Make sure hands are clean and warm. I hug a mug. Use side of finger not the pads. You need very little blood.
Use different fingers.
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Mug trick is very clever thank you. Struggling with our tap downstairs. It’s either nuclear hot or cold !
 
Leadinglights said:
That is probably where the skin is toughest, try just to the side of the pad, if you put your thumb onto the middle finger and prick just to the side of that and apply gentle pressure. Make sure you actually press the device against your finger firmly. If all else fails take your lancet in your hand and just prick with it, a sharp stab, it is so fine it really doesn't hurt.
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Just done this on 6 and was ok! Thank you.
 
Damien said:
The finger print bit but my girlfriend said I need to be carful with scars etc.
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Try the sides. Not sure about “scars?” Been finger pricking for decades. In the early days I had no spring loaded device. (Or the medieval device was a faff to load?) Drove it in manually. (Weird devices back then.] if you work manual labour? Sides help too. Hold still with the lancet device, straight in & out. How are your BG levels? Higher levels could cause issues with wound healing?
 
Satan’s little helper said:
Try the sides. Not sure about “scars?” Been finger pricking for decades. In the early days I had no spring loaded device. (Or the medieval device was a faff to load?) Drove it in manually. (Weird devices back then.] if you work manual labour? Sides help too. Hold still with the lancet device, straight in & out. How are your BG levels? Higher levels could cause issues with wound healing?
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Window cleaner and hands are soft. Only been diagnosed a week T2. BS are high at the moment.
 
Damien said:
Window cleaner and hands are soft. Only been diagnosed a week T2. BS are high at the moment.
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A noble profession. (You have my respect. Good money when I was doing it back in the 1980s.) rinse off any detergent? & dry before testing? I used different stuff back in my day. Don’t want to take you off topic with what you use now. 🙂
 
Always clean my hands and dry them as been told I can get infections quite easily. I have noticed small cuts take a long time to heal now.

24 years now cleaning windows!!
 
I'm a firm believer in the Accu-Chek Fastclix - mine is set on 3, never hurts, and always draws enough blood for a reading
 
Damien said:
Always clean my hands and dry them as been told I can get infections quite easily. I have noticed small cuts take a long time to heal now.

24 years now cleaning windows!!
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Yep, highg BGs can hinder healing has been “known.” It’s great you actually use a meter & monitoring your condition. If you can within your means, try a Libre sensor? It fills in the gaps between the tests.
 
mashedupmatt said:
I'm a firm believer in the Accu-Chek Fastclix - mine is set on 3, never hurts, and always draws enough blood for a reading
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Just had a quick google and that looks quite simple and hygienic. I think I might give that a try as I can use the machine to test BS I have now.
 
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