Re: [IPk] can my GP insist I use a particular BG meter? Getting syringes

[Diana Maynard <email @ redacted>]

Each to their own, but I can easily make a syringe last a week, so would 
only need a couple for 2 weeks away! Plus a couple of spares.
Di

On 30/05/2010 12:47, Pat Reynolds wrote:

>
> Some of us (including me) who were on pens, pre-pump, prefer to use
> syringes now, as they are easier to carry around (one fits into my meter
> pack) for the odd occassion when one might want to bolus by syringe/pen.
> The downside is the syringe needles (and pen needles) blunt really
> easily, so if you are going away for, say, two weeks, you might want to
> take 2 basal and 4 bolus/correction injections per day if your pump
> fails - 84 injectins. I get only 2 or 3 injections out of a syringe, so
> would want to take 4 packs of 10 syringes with me .... One pen, and 40
> pen needles is a lot easier to carry (and more likely to justify
> prescription, given that you are proabably not going to need to use a
> single one of them.
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