[Diabetes-talk] Eli Lily Humalog QuikPen

[d m gina]

Mike
When you got this pin, did you get the double of pins than you used to 
get before?
My doctor shared with me, that you get half in this pin than what you 
get from the Lilly pin.
Because it is smaller.
Higher in cost.

Original message:
> Yup.

> Mike


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> 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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