Cecile posted on the forum topic Needle Replacement and Other Stuff in the...
@nigho : When you (and @mustard & @seasiderdave ) mention “gun”, is it something similar to this gruesome gadget? Golly, it looks fitting for a sniper D:
View ArticleDave posted on the forum topic Needle Replacement and Other Stuff in the...
That’s the one. And as @nigho said it was needed to avoid the very real pain of injecting with the big glass syringes and significant needles that I remember my parents sterilising by boiling in a pan....
View ArticleAlison posted on the forum topic Un-answered question... in the group Shoot Up
@Nigho You do realise that this is ShootUp don’t you? It never takes much encouragement to get the hoards onto general smut, innuendo or general off topic weirdness! I took the husband to pump training...
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Alison posted on the forum topic Un-answered question... in the group Shoot Up
@nigho Jolly good, we’ll be testing you later so please take notes
View ArticleDave posted on the forum topic Needle Replacement and Other Stuff in the...
@nigho I’m sure plastic syringes for me only came in for me in the 80s. I was definitely at least 5 (1980) when using the glass version. Looking back now and also looking at my two young children I can...
View ArticleTim commented on the post, Video Blog - Diabetes irritations
@nigho – I possibly carry slight more stuff around now I’m on the pump. I have one pencil case which carries my everyday stuff – meter, strips, Fruit Pastillles, etc. and I have another pencil case...
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, Video Blog - Diabetes irritations
@Nigho I don’t see why the Omnipod should require less junk. With a pump you’d probably carry a spare infusion set and reservoir, plus insulin. With the Omnipod the infusion set is built into the pod...
View ArticleTim commented on the post, Video Blog - Diabetes irritations
@nigho – I used to be like you, averse to the man bag! But I quite like them now; my main bag is a Visconti messenger bag (http://goo.gl/IhGyt) for every day use – it’s almost indestructible. For smart...
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, Video Blog - Diabetes irritations
@nigho I started off carrying a pen, but found that when I came to actually use it, it was over a year old and the insulin was past it’s expiry date. Now I carry a syringe because it’s smaller and I...
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, Video Blog - Diabetes irritations
@Nigho Now this is getting complex! I’ve never used a syringe or a pen to fill a pump reservoir, they come with a great mechanism to fill from a bottle of insulin, far simpler. I don’t know how you...
View ArticleAnnette A commented on the post, Video Blog - Diabetes irritations
@nigho – no, you use the filling mechanism which has a needle in it which inserts into the top of the pen, then you use the plunger on the cartridge (only available at first set up of cartridge, you...
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, Video Blog - Diabetes irritations
@nigho I use a syringe as back up rather than a pen as it saves the hassle of having vials and cartridges. The pump reservoir fills very well from a vial, and a syringe means I can extract insulin from...
View ArticleMike commented on the post, Poll results - how to you like to be referred to...
@nigho Very true.. Will have to think up something better! 【ツ】Bugger!
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, A shiny new pump - the Veo
@nigho I discovered that a couple of years ago, and then this year I discovered that @pattidevans who runs a fabulous set of diabetes support forums – second only to ShootUp in their fabulousness 😉 –...
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Annette A commented on the post, Pull Yourself Together!
@nigho – I was born in Sheffield, that (famous?) city of the seven hills. We lived at the top of one of them. My school was at the bottom of said hill. I got to eat a caramac every day to get me home...
View ArticleCecile commented on the post, The good old days
@nigho: Poppycock (&hen, to make it unisex)! They don’t work: you can’t dial back a wrong dose and you can keep on dialling, even if the cartridge is empty. So you haven’t been transferred to the...
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, The good old days
@ckoei I appear to have hated the fat, plastic Novopen 2 so much I have irradicated it from my life and can’t find it anywhere. In terms of girth and cheapness, it was very much along the lines of the...
View ArticleCecile commented on the post, The good old days
@nigho: Couldn’t you use @alison‘s buxom beast? (’cause the Autopen Classic takes both Lilly’s and Wockhardt’s cartridges, which to me would mean you can plonk your Hypurin into a Humapen?)
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Cecile commented on the post, The good old days
@nigho: As far as insulin goes, you’re pro-choice, so you should insist on plurality when it comes to pens, too…though with bird-of-paradise pump on the horizon, any new pen should currently have the...
View ArticleAnnette A posted on the forum topic moving to a pump in the group Shoot Up
@nigho – I understand (maybe incorrectly, after all, I’ve never tried one) that the stickiness does depend on the acidity of your sweat. Some people are naturally more acidic (I know I’m one, I ‘eat’...
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