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Novopen Echo

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It's a new pen, designed primarily for children, but with some of the features a lot of us would like - half unit dosing and a simple 'last dose and time' memory. Only currently available in Scandinavian countries though :(

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http://www.novonordisk.com/press/se...89d-bd5b-b474ea208cc2&sShowLanguageCode=en-GB
 
a memory pen!! I'm on the first bus to Scandi! I'll pick a few up in case any of yous fancy one too!
 
Fab, let's hope they bring them over here soon!

Might be worth a few of us emailing them to ask if/when it'll come over, and indeed asking them to bring it over? That way they will know there is interest from the users!
 
i wants one! i still have a kids one anyway but still that one looks cool.
 
I asked them a few times last year when these might be available in the UK:

Novopen with a memory please

and always had a polite, but firm, 'We have no plans for a UK launch'

In the end I switched to Humalog so that I could use the Memoir pen (16 dose time/date memory).

It hugely frustrates me that insulin cartridges are not universal. Pharma companies should treat the pens as a market in their own right. A positive experience with a pen can make you feel on-side with that company's insulins. We have to use these things many times every day, and the whole choice in the entire market is not exactly huge! Some users have particular physical/technical requirements which make perhaps only one or two injection devices suitable, and they are then limited to a fraction of the number of insulins available.

A little consistency would be nice
 
I agree Mike. How nonsensical is it that, in order to get the finely-tuned control of my basal I need, I would have to change from a very well-suited lantus regime to a completely unknown levemir? Ludicrous! 😱 Alternatively, why can't the companies recognise the market exists, since other manufacturers produce such pens? The tech really can't be very complicated...🙄
 
It does half units too! 🙂

Why 'styled for kids' - do they think adults don't need these features? :confused:🙄

Not in the BNF yet.
 
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Hmmm. Will have to wait for the memoir (or replacement) to be relaunched.

Rob
 
If you want the half units Rob, just do what I did and switch insulins. It's a bit 'tail wagging the dog' but NovoRapid and Humalog had very similar activity curve for me (I'm now back on Novo cos my DSN isn't keen on Humalog for pumps!)

M
 
William uses the Novopen junior with Novorapid, and it does half units. Has kiddie designs on it but if you don't mind that, it does the job (but without the snazzy memory function of course - that looks great)
 
Willsmum said:
William uses the Novopen junior with Novorapid, and it does half units. Has kiddie designs on it but if you don't mind that, it does the job (but without the snazzy memory function of course - that looks great)
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Really, I want a half-unit lantus pen as I'm only on one unit now! Why can't these things be universal fit? :( It's stupid to have to change insulins for the sake of using a particular delivery device.
 
Wow I wondered about this the other day when I couldnt remember if I had taken mealtime insulin! 🙄 I thought "wouldn't it be great to have a pen that recorded doses" - not thinking such a thing existed!

I am on humalog....how do I get one of these memoir pens then!?
 
lauraw1983 said:
Wow I wondered about this the other day when I couldnt remember if I had taken mealtime insulin! 🙄 I thought "wouldn't it be great to have a pen that recorded doses" - not thinking such a thing existed!

I am on humalog....how do I get one of these memoir pens then!?
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They are currently being rejigged (they had a battery problem and took the pen off the market to fix it).
https://www.lilly.co.uk/your-health/diabetes/humapen-memoir-supply

The only other alternative at the moment is a replacement cap like Timesulin (though I don't know if that would fit your Humapen)
 
I don't think Id ever need half units but the memory would be invaluable, as for anyone.

I'm seeing the DSN in a couple of weeks so might mention it as a possible. She'll be more clued up than the GPs.

Rob
 
Alan, not being able to inject half units of Lantus is a PITA. A year after diagnosis, it's not such an issue for William but for a while he, like you, took hardly any so an adjustment of 1 unit was wildly imprecise.
 
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