How long does your finger pricker last?

[rossi_mac]

Hi,

Mine's begining to show signs of needing a replacement, and I dug out the last email I sent requesting one, it was Jan 2011, doesn't seem bad to me, 15 months test 150 times or so a month but often have to fire the device more than once so it has around 2,500 shots!!!

How long do your last😉😛

PS It's a bayer bayer micro lancet 2 I think for the lovely contour usb...

Cheers,

Rossi.

 

[Monica]

I don't really know, as Carol uses several, but....
Carol still uses her BD one she was given at diagnosis just over 5 years ago. That was her favourite pricker and the only one she'd use for a long time. As soon as OneTouch brought them out, I asked for a couple more. She now has 3 or 4.
Shame they are a bit big for the ultra easy case. She now puts the strips pot in the outside pocket, as there's no room inside anymore

 

[Northerner]

Do you mean the device or the lancet? I am still on my same finger-pricking device and about 3/4 of the way through my first box of lancets for it (200 in a box) - had it 4 years, it's an Accu chek Multiclix 🙂

 

[rossi_mac]

The Device, you should change lancets more often than every year!😛

 

[Northerner]

The Device, you should change lancets more often than every year!😛

What's a man with so many sheds doing ordering pre-manufactured finger-prickers? Surely you could knock one up in Shed Number One?

 

[ypauly]

I have made a lancet last a couple of days


The first actual pricker lasted a year, but the second one is still going. I have a third unused one as a spare but also two of those annoying multi click thingies that will never get used (they came with meter/pump) I did try to use one but I just couldn't get it to work despite trying the catridge thingy that holds the lancets both ways around.


P.S I don't have much patience, if things don't tend to work first time I am not the sort to keep trying.

In fact I might change my signature to ' if at first you don't succeed, give up'

 

[Northerner]

...P.S I don't have much patience, if things don't tend to work first time I am not the sort to keep trying.

In fact I might change my signature to ' if at first you don't succeed, give up'

So I see! That 'annoying multi click thingy' is what I have been using from the start and it's easy as pie to use! (not that you'd be very successful pricking your finger with a pie, mind 😉)

 

[trophywench]

You prolly hadn't got the 'depth' dialled up to the right number Paul..

I've just had new finger prickers when I've had a new meter. So in my entire life I am now on my 5th meter and finger pricker. And my first meter, I had to pay for myself (a month's salary) as the NHS didn't pay for em.

I've never ever worn one out.

 

[lauraw1983]

You prolly hadn't got the 'depth' dialled up to the right number Paul..

I've just had new finger prickers when I've had a new meter. So in my entire life I am now on my 5th meter and finger pricker. And my first meter, I had to pay for myself (a month's salary) as the NHS didn't pay for em.

I've never ever worn one out.

A months salary?! 😱 When did meters first appear?

 

[trophywench]

Mid to late 70's? Was over ?30, I netted approx ?36 until 1974 when they started bringing in Job Grading at our place plus they'd realised we were all severely underpaid in our market. I didn't make it to ?1,000 a year when it first started happening, but I did before 1980.

We had to buy our own disposable syringes too, but they weren't available At All to us when I was first DX Paul. (although they were used throughout the NHS)

Anyway - if you bought your own machine, the NHS prescribed the strips, which was what made me invest in it. A Roche, like half a housebrick, bout the same size as my Personal calculator !

Then later someone made one like a credit card, eensy weensy, that was a tenner. That went tits up in France in August 2000 - I know this since we were on flipping honeymoon! - and the Customer Service was dire. England said ring Paris. Paris said ring Birmingham (a unit on Station Rd Ind estate, at Coleshill) They said No Paris. Paris said ring B'ham. And that was me on a mobile phone in the Vendee. They sent me it eventually, arrived at the site the day we came home. So as soon as i came back I binned it and bought a One Toach Ultra.

Nobody in the NHS ever offered me any meter FREE until January 2008.

However, I'd seen an Ad in Balance after that for the One Touch Ultra 2 saying 'apply for free upgrade - so I did. In 2007 I wangled another out of them, but they were NOT very keen until I said Oh well please yerselves, I'd get another make then as loads of people were giving em away by then.

See? You kids don't know yer born .....