[Diabetes-talk] Eli Lily Humalog QuikPen

[d m gina]

If it is OK I will share this with my doctor.
I don't remember how many units is in my pins.
I truly forgot.

Original message:
> Each pen holds three hundred units, just as the previous pens did.  So I got
> the same number of pens as before.

> Mike


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> 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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>> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
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>> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:09 PM
>> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Eli Lily Humalog QuikPen

>> 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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