Leadinglights
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Many who are Type 2 unless on medication that could cause low blood glucose like gliclazide are not prescribed them so have to self fund so do look for monitors which have the cheaper test strips, lancets are pretty cheap so less of an issue.
I am a rebel when it comes to using the lancet as I just hold in my fingers as most of the devices are far too fiddly. It comes from when I was at work when we used single use lancets for safety reasons with multiple users who would get blood everywhere and often failed to set the device correctly and wasted the lancets or pressed the wrong button so the ejected the lancet into their finger.
The amount of blood needed was 40x that needed for a finger prick test as we were extracting DNA so needed a big sample.
I am a rebel when it comes to using the lancet as I just hold in my fingers as most of the devices are far too fiddly. It comes from when I was at work when we used single use lancets for safety reasons with multiple users who would get blood everywhere and often failed to set the device correctly and wasted the lancets or pressed the wrong button so the ejected the lancet into their finger.
The amount of blood needed was 40x that needed for a finger prick test as we were extracting DNA so needed a big sample.