[Diabetes-talk] Eli Lily Humalog QuikPen

[d m gina]

Hi Mike,
I saw one of those pins in the office.
I still have the first one, and need to use it.
I like the idea you don't have to pull back on it or up on it to get 
what you need.
I also felt the turns.
Or knotches as I was turning it.
So each turn is one unit?

Original message:
> Greetings.

> You may recall seeing a notice that Eli Lily was to discontinue 
> production of the original Humalog insulin pen and that supplies were 
> no longer guaranteed to be available after December, 2010. I received 
> such a notice both from Safeway Pharmacy and from Wallgreen's. The 
> QuikPen has been available for some time but the scuttlebutt was that 
> Lily continued to manufacture the original Humalog pen in part because 
> it thought it easier for blind diabetics to use than the QuikPen. This 
> seems somewhat far-fetched to me but I've heard it more than once.

> Be that as it may, I've received my first supply of the Humalog 
> QuikPen. I can report that it is very easy to use whether or not one 
> has useable vision. The pen is less complex than the original Humalog 
> pen, has smoother action and requires less pressure on the 
> "plunger-finger". The version I have can give doses in one-unit 
> increments up to sixty units and clicks for each unit as one dials the 
> dose just as the original Humalog pen did. The clicks are slightly less 
> stiff or definite but they're very much there and I had no trouble 
> dialing up the dose I desired. One also doesn't have to pull the 
> plunger back to engage the dialing mechanism as one did with the original pen.

> All in all, I like the QuikPen and assure you that if you are 
> approached as to whether the pen can be used by the blind, the answer 
> is an emphatic "yes"!

> Mike Freeman


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