I change my lancet every morning! *gasp*
That’s right. It’s true. Okay, I may miss a morning here and there every few months - but for the most part, my lancet gets changed each and every morning before I take my fasting reading. No #BluntLancet for me!!
I sure hope that doesn’t get me voted out of the Diabetes Club!!
No, we won't kick you out of the club. But I AM making a notation in your Permanent File. :)
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm impressed! But, if it makes you feel any better, I know a family who changes their daughter's lancet every TEST! Yup.
ReplyDeleteyou're weird. ;)
ReplyDelete(though to T1s, I might be weird, too. I change it every time I open a new vial of test strips - which for me, is about every week or two.)
gasp! you're so bold!! i admire your courage. ;)
ReplyDeletehigh five for changing lancets!
Ha! When I was first diagnosed, I changed my lancet every test! I think I did that for the first five or six months, and then I just stopped! When I got my pump and its associated meter, they sent me eight boxes of test strips (50 count) and 10 lancets. Then I changed my ways :)
ReplyDeleteOK...so, I didn't realize PWDs don't change them that often. Is it everyone? I change Joe's about 4 times a day (we check a BG about 12 x a day...are we weird???
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I had no idea. And...I hope they don't kick you outta the club Karen.
Wait... no... hang on... You mean you can *change* them? Tch! Who knew!
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Same here for Grace - every morning. She checks about 10 times a day, so we SHOULD change it more often, but I think 1x a day is excellent considering I remember it at all!
ReplyDeleteNo kicking out of the club, not allowed.
Glad you shared though!
You are my SHERO!
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I have been changing my lancet more often (not each morning, but every few days) because I find they work better when it's a new lancet and sometimes I can't get any blood from a really well-worn lancet. Shocking, huh? Who would have thought!
ReplyDeleteThe kids change theirs along with their needle tips every morning. Well...every morning that I remind them. So you know that means that when they leave home they will never change a thing because Mom's not there to remind them!
ReplyDeleteMy original prescription at diagnosis was for 200 lancets and 50 strips. Like, duh?!? Should've been the other way round!
ReplyDeleteI used up that first box of strips in under a week. I'm still on that first box of lancets! That was June 2010...
that has to be some kind of record.
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Not fair! I had that as a topic for sometime soon.
ReplyDeleteI just started changing them every couple of days. It was hurting and I decided that it made sense. Maybe it's the cold but it has made a big difference.
Maybe I'm a wimp.
I change them every morning too!
ReplyDeleteI change mine every time I test - I take no chances...
ReplyDeleteImpressive! I TRY to remember to change Nate's every night at bedtime. It's all good!
ReplyDeleteI get mine through the mail on a one stip/lancet ratio. I use a new one almost every time. Plus, I'm a microbiologist. I have to see the results of wound infections daily and its not pretty.
ReplyDeleteWe change our lancet with every single test!
ReplyDeleteActually after insurance coverage lancets are probably the cheapest prescription we get filled (less than $20 for 900) so we use a fresh one each time.
I change about every test too. But I also use a multi-click lancet device (which holds 6 lancets in a barrel, making it really easy to change between lancets). I use a barrel a day more or less, and am trying to test 5 to 8 times a day on that one barrel.
ReplyDeleteThe thought of using one lancet all *day* gives me shivers, using one lancet all week makes my fingers scared.
I know a lot of pwd reuse, maybe if i didn't have a multiclick i would too, but I just picture rusty, 'blunt lancets' in my minds eye:(
I change mine at Halloween every year, when I do the smoke detector batteries...only kidding.
ReplyDeleteI forget to change them, until their blüntness reminds me. Changing them more frequently just seems to be yet another way for diabetes to steal a few seconds from me on a regular basis.