Have you changed your lancet?

[jalapino]

I confess my infrequency of changing is mostly down to laziness (probably every few months?), with the other parts being equally split between a lack of correlation between fresh lancet and pain-free test (I often find fresh ones hurt more until they are 'worn in' and then are comfy for a while before becoming blunt) and also to the advice I got from DSN when first diagnosed... "well you're supposed to change them every time, but not everyone bothers, and as long as it's only you using it it's up to you"

Interesting mike.....I find when I change them often they hurt less? if I use them lets say for 2 days I feel more pain! can't imagine leaving them for months....ouch 😱 then I only test twice a day, morning then evening as stated by dn....your a tuff lot you type 1's

 

[Monica]

Just you wait until they get stuck in your finger!!! 😱 This happened to one of Carol's friends.

Must admit though, Carol doesn't change her lancets at all now. I tend to do it when I have access 😡
Where has my lovely compliant daughter gone?

 

[ypauly]

What? every st Swithens day? that's a bit excessive isn't it.

 

[FM001]

Find it to painful leaving it longer than a day, needle is changed after every injection.

 

[happydog]

I am needle phobic. Thought it would improve but it has not. I change mine every day because I am a coward and I think it hurts less. As has been pointed out type 1's put me to shame in every way. I think they are all brilliant. 🙂

 

[samroboli]

This thread made me smile. I imagined I was the only lazy one with lancets. I probably change mine once a month or less, I don't really monitor just when I remember really, its down to pure laziness, if I think of it I'll just say to myself 'next time' and it rarely is. Its time consuming isn't it, one extra thing to do.

I do change my needles everytime I inject though, only since I was pregnant and it hurt more in my tummy and now because I have the potential to bleed more if its not sharp enough with what I've been diagnosed with. I MAY try and do it more.

 

[missclb]

Done. Thanks for the reminder.

I'm shuddering trying to remember when I last changed it!!! 😱

 

[AlisonM]

I've changed mine now and hey, it makes a difference. I'm setting a reminder on my app to tell me to change the thing more often. Maybe when I do my prescription.

 

[Old Holborn]

I'm still on my first box of lancets since being diagnosed 5 years ago, although I do change them every few weeks

Well don't blame us if you get galloping blood rot, your knee caps turn upside down, forcing you to run marathons backwards, and you can't pick your nose because your fingers have dropped off !!! 😱

 

[jalapino]

Well don't blame us if you get galloping blood rot, your knee caps turn upside down, forcing you to run marathons backwards, and you can't pick your nose because your fingers have dropped off !!! 😱

Ermmm.....that sounds nice!!! 😛

 

[LaughingHyena]

I change it each morning in my main meter, the others I have around in the car, handbag etc don't get used often so I change it each time.

I started changing them at each test, I'd take it out at the end of the test ready to insert a new one at the next test, thinking the new one would then be sterile when I came to use it.

Problem was I ended up developing a new hypo test, if I can insert the lancet without any problems I'm not hypo🙂 so I started leaving the lancet in.

 

[Flutterby]

Just seen this and it made me smile, I'd forgotten, will do it straight away!!