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Sharps bins again

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I would like to moan about having three of them but it's all my fault lol:D. I make arrangements for collection usually they give me a date weeks in advance then I forget what day:D
 
Hi Becky lovely to see you posting x
thanks for the read I feel your pain everytime I want rid of mine its a saga....
 
so annoying , i have an agreement with my doctor i just take them in there 🙂
 
I must admit Becky, I have the same arrangement as you - waste services collect. I just put mine on my doorstep in a bag, as advised, so it looks like whoever told you originally that you couldn't is at fault :( And perhaps Sharps Man's 'annual leave' is a whole year off? 🙄

Having said that, waste collection have been on strike/work to rule here for the past 4 months so we're lucky to get any kind of rubbish collection!
 
You have my sympathy Becky. I have been through the whole range (hospital then GP then chemist) until it is now council run and very awkward to actually get them collected if you work for a living. Diabetes obviously causes every patient a degree of stress and worry. What I find annoying is that this is often added to with things like sharps disposal, repeat prescriptions and even some appointments. Recently I requested that a follow up appointment for three months hence should avoid the two weeks when I would be away. A week later the appointment arrived bang in the middle of the two weeks!

Stressed Steve!
 
Jennywren said:
so annoying , i have an agreement with my doctor i just take them in there 🙂
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Me too. I've only swapped one since I got home (they're huge and it's only two injections a day) but it was no big deal. I took it in and the receptionist called the nurse to come and get it, she then locked it in a special store room they have for such things and gave me a new one. In my mind, if 'they' issue the bin to you, 'they' need to take it back when it's full. Whoever 'they' are.
 
I'm only on my 3rd bin in well over 3 years and it's only about a quarter full so will probably keep me going until next summer! 🙂
 
PS: The way it seems to work up here is the surgeries/pharmacies take the sharps bins and when they have a cupboard full they call the removals folk to come and get them. I reckon it works out much cheaper that way than having council van man running round dozens of houses collecting individual bins.
 
Fortunately for me, my GP will take the sharps bin and dispose of it.

My local chemist will not take them. They did use to take them but apparently they had a couple of accidents 😱 and so stopped.
 
StephenM said:
You have my sympathy Becky. I have been through the whole range (hospital then GP then chemist) until it is now council run and very awkward to actually get them collected if you work for a living. Diabetes obviously causes every patient a degree of stress and worry. What I find annoying is that this is often added to with things like sharps disposal, repeat prescriptions and even some appointments. Recently I requested that a follow up appointment for three months hence should avoid the two weeks when I would be away. A week later the appointment arrived bang in the middle of the two weeks!

Stressed Steve!
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Agree 100 %

You'd think they'd make it easier to avoid having them thrown in the bin. It's always a bit of a mystery when you move as to what to do with them.

Soemthing else DUK shold maybe look into.

Rob
 
Similar frustrations here. Am now registered with the council who will come and get them periodically ... seems ridiculous that we can't drop them off at the GP since they have lots of their own sharps bins to dispose of!
Also appointments ... asked for my son's 3 month follow up to be during the summer hols, as he is away at music school during the week (just started so mum's anxiety levels sky high, but that's another story!). Lo and behold, a mid-September appointment arrives. I tried to change it and even to attend another clinic but nothing doing. So we're waiting until October half term.
 
while we're on the subject....

Phoned council last week, although they are bright yellow somehow they didn't see it on my door step, so hopefully it'll be picked up tomorrow, I reminded them that they are bright yellow so should be visable!
 
Ive have to confess I have actually got a full sharps bin stuffed in my cupboard upstairs,all because no one would take responsibility for it....The first debarkle got me so intimidated i could not be bothered with the hassle.
 
I was talking with a friend on the phone this afternoon and mentioned this - he is Type I as well. Apparently a district nurse in his area picked some a couple of sharps boxes from a couple of elderly patients to try and be helpful. She was spotted trying to put them in the wheelie bin for sharps boxes at the practice by 'practice administrator'. She apparently received a reprimand for this and was told to return them as no way must non-practice sharps be disposed of through the practice. She phoned the council to try and get them picked up but told she did not meet the criteria - did not want the embarassment of returning them. After driving around with them for months she added them to another patients sharps pick-up. You could not make it up!*?
 
I have a sharps bin, and although fairly large (about 2 litres) it's taken only five months to fill because I'm currently on disposable Innolet pens, which each take up about 200-250ml of space. 😱 I know my insulin (Insulatard) is available in 3ml vials for refillable pens (those pens even take the same type of needles as I'm currently using), but I can't be prescribed those because my GP DSN doesn't know the code -- and the hospital team has discharged me for some unfathomable reason. :(

I tried taking my sharps bin to the pharmacy, and was told that I have to ring a Council number to get it disposed of -- but they didn't know the number. :( I'll mention it to the DSN when next I see her, as she it was who gave me the bin in the first place.
 
robert@fm said:
I have a sharps bin, and although fairly large (about 2 litres) it's taken only five months to fill because I'm currently on disposable Innolet pens, which each take up about 200-250ml of space. 😱 I know my insulin (Insulatard) is available in 3ml vials for refillable pens (those pens even take the same type of needles as I'm currently using), but I can't be prescribed those because my GP DSN doesn't know the code -- and the hospital team has discharged me for some unfathomable reason. :(

I tried taking my sharps bin to the pharmacy, and was told that I have to ring a Council number to get it disposed of -- but they didn't know the number. :( I'll mention it to the DSN when next I see her, as she it was who gave me the bin in the first place.
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Robert, All PIP codes are on this page for Insulatard: http://www.novonordisk.co.uk/documents/promotion_page/document/2008_product_spcs_human_insulins.asp
 
I got home and there was a yellow bin on my door step, but alas it was my full one, what have I got to do???
 
am i the only one who has no problems with this i just take mine back to my gps and they dispose of them for me
 
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