[Diabetes-talk] smart lancet

[COLLEEN ROTH]

Hi Mike,
Does this device actually collect the bood from your finger or do you still have to get the blood on to the strip?
I am still having a lot of trouble getting bood on to the strip.
I have a lot of difficulty because I have very thick blood, kind of like molasses, I have Polycythemia) which means my blood produces too much iron.
I actually have to have a pint taken off every couple of months.
Sometimes even when other people poke my finger they get any blood. I do all of the things they tell you to do. I rather-but my finger, run it under hot water, squeeze the finger after I poke it, place finger on table and try to get lancet and strip to meet.
It's not a real problem right now but if I really had to know what my blood sugar was because I was running high or low I would have a problem.
If this device actually could capture the blood it would be worth $400 to me.
The aternative if I can't get my blood onto a strip doesn't look too pretty. Right now I am taking 1000 mg. Metformin two times a time.
My a1c is still about 5.3.
If you have any info on this device and where I can call to get more info please let me know.
Thanks,

Colleen Roth



----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Bl'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013 7:28 pm
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] smart lancet

>
>
> The market would be quite large were the cost of such a device sufficiently
> low.
> 
> In fact, one such device already exists — but it costs $400 or so and it's
> not tiny; it's a box a few inches across and high with a small protuberance
> that sticks out of the box under which you place the finger to be lanced. A
> laser than burns a minuscule hole in the skin of the finger, presumably
> burning the hole into a capillary so blood will ooze out. The device is
> battery-operated but doesn't exactly fit in a pocket.
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 4:00 AM
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] smart lancet
> 
> Remember I wrote earlier on this list about the need for a lancet that 
> wouldn't punch dry holes?  Well as it turns out, I've been talking with an 
> inventor of dental and medical devices who has patents already in his 
> name.  He says it is entirely feasible to make a lancet like this.  He 
> needs to know if something like this were made, what would the market be 
> for such a lancet across the diabetic community.  I met him accidentally, 
> turns out he works for the Dentist I now am with.
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net> About to block another web browser version?  
> Ask yourself what Tim Berners-lee would do.
> 
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