What a difference...lancing devices

[lauraw1983]

When I saw my DSN today (as per other thread), I also asked about my poor fingers, as they are so sore

I had an "Easy Touch" lancing device and she gave me a much smaller Freestyle one today, fits the same lancets....

I just used it before dinner.....what a difference! No throbbing fingers, or marks!

I knew that other one was evil, this one even sounds nicer, clicks much more softly lol.

My MIL has just given me a One Touch one aswell as a spare (via her friend who is diabetic and has loads of them, this is unused!) but I don't know if my lancets will fit it, that looks/sounds gentler too. Will investigate shortly.

It's the simple things that make me happy these days 🙄

 

[Monica]

That's good!🙂

I don't know the "easy touch" or the freestyle lancer, but Carol's had the OneTouch one right from the start and loves it. She won't use the small lancers that come with the OneTouch Easy, she squeezes the big one in her tiny case.

Which lancets do you have? Carol has the BD microfine lancets to go in those. Never had anything else, so I don't know if yours would fit, if they're different.

 

[Phil65]

When I saw my DSN today (as per other thread), I also asked about my poor fingers, as they are so sore

I had an "Easy Touch" lancing device and she gave me a much smaller Freestyle one today, fits the same lancets....

I just used it before dinner.....what a difference! No throbbing fingers, or marks!

I knew that other one was evil, this one even sounds nicer, clicks much more softly lol.

My MIL has just given me a One Touch one aswell as a spare (via her friend who is diabetic and has loads of them, this is unused!) but I don't know if my lancets will fit it, that looks/sounds gentler too. Will investigate shortly.

It's the simple things that make me happy these days 🙄

The one touch pricker is excellent....I don't use their meter anymore but their lancets are really good! 🙂

 

[Northerner]

I've always used the Accu Chek Multiclix, always been fine for me and convenient with 6 lancets in a drum so it lasts forever! 🙂

 

[Phil65]

I've always used the Accu Chek Multiclix, always been fine for me and convenient with 6 lancets in a drum so it lasts forever! 🙂

That is the one I use Alan....but have to say the one touch was just as good 🙂

 

[Monica]

The oneTouch one used to be BD. Carol's first one says BD on it. When I tried to get a second one for her, the DSN wouldn't give me one and it would have cost ?14 to buy one. So when OneTouch decided to supply them I asked for a few. She now has 4, including the original BD one from 5 years ago

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I'm another fan of the multiclix. Softclix (I & II) were good too. Just changed to a Contour meter (Bluetooth to pump) but have kept using the Multiclix 🙂

 

[lauraw1983]

Just coming back to this too, I'm mostly loving the "One Touch" device now, it's definitely gentler but it doesn't fit in my meter case!! Annoying. I have it in a pencil case beside my pens but I am trying to reduce all the stuff I need to carry about!!

The Freestyle one is also good and much smaller though.

I notice as soon as I have used a lancet maybe 3 or 4 times, it hurts much more too so I have to change it, it must get blunt - noticed a thread here where people use them 50+ times!! 😱

 

[margie]

I haven't used a lancing device in ages - when I did I found the biggest cause of pain was if the depth setting had somehow been increased.

I had a lancer break and I have got in the habbit of just sticking the lancet into my finger, the first couple of times were tricky but I persisted as had to test levels, and now I just do it.